Dr. Antoinette Pirie (1905–1991)

R . Van Heyningen and a . Pirie

Pirie, van Heyningen & Flanders (1955) showed that the concentrations of certain acid-soluble phosphates in the lens, when estimated by the enzymic method of Slater (1953), were much lower than the concentrations reported by Nordmann & Mandel (1952), who used the barium-fractionation method of LePage (1948, 1949). This method has, until recently, been the accepted and standard one for estimatio...

On the Presentation of the Proctor Medal of the Association for Research in Ophthalmology.

TLie Proctor Award was established in 1947 in memory of Dr. Francis I. Proctor, a Boston ophthalmologist. After his retirement, Dr. Proctor settled in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and became interested in the health problems of the American Indians. He was particularly interested in trachoma and initiated a research program to learn more about this disease. Through this experience, he began to appreci...

Dr Google or Dr Lazy?

Sir, I was recently on call for nephrology, and something happened. I was rung by a first year junior doctor at 1 am, saying that a patient's 'MEWS score was 6'. The patient had had a renal transplant that day. A score of 6 is very high. It should trigger a rapid senior review, and possible intensive care re-ferral. Modified early warning score (MEWS) is an electronic early warning score based ...

PATHOLOGY OF THE CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM Dr: Khitam Dr: Sazan Dr: Kifah Dr amear

BLOOD VESSEL DISEASES Blood vessels have a primary function of nourishing various organs and tissues of the body by supplying them with blood. Vascular diseases are manifested clinically through three mechanisms that are reflected through the diseased vessel (s) as 1. Progressive narrowing of the lumen associated with progressive ischemia of the relevant tissues. 2. Thrombosis associated with p...

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