Ebenezer Creek

Ebenezer Scrooge – Man of Principle

‘Bah! Humbug!’ It’s the most famous line in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, but is it the most important? Surely not, for this Christmas classic is not centrally about Christmas, but about a man, the holiday being the convenient setting for his transformation. What kind of transformation? Why a moral transformation of course, because the man, Ebenezer Scrooge, through multiple encounters wi...

2 - Mannam Ebenezer et al (209-213)

filaments (Semmes-Weinstein monofilaments). This point localization of sensation (locognosia) was tested by SW filaments over four quadrants of the pulp of the fingers in ulnar/median and ulnar paralysis in 38 new patients affected by leprosy. The results were compared with standard testing of sensation at selected sites by Semmes Weinstein monofilament. Both pulp quadrant testing and standard ...

Contraindications of Vasoconstrictors in Dentistry R. BALAKRISHNAN* and VIJAY EBENEZER

The association of a vasoconstrictor with a local anaesthetic solution is indicated because the vasoconstrictor decreases the intravascular passage of the injected solution and thus ensures an increase in duration and depth of the anaesthesia while reducing the systemic effects of the solution. Adrenaline is the main vasoconstrictor used today in local anaesthesia for dental treatments as it pr...

Up a chemical creek.

mycin and roxithromycin (RXM) have an anti-inflammatory effect that may account for their clinical benefit in the treatment of chronic airway inflammatory diseases. However, the precise mechanism of this anti-inflammatory effect is not well understood. Purpose : The influence of RXM on matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-9 production from neutrophils in response to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) stimulati...

Crossing the quality creek.