Extra Supplement: Blessed Lord

Extra Protection for Pregnant Women: Calcium Supplement Reduces Blood Lead

Prenatal exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) impairs cognitive development in infants and children, according to numerous studies of these ubiquitous environmental pollutants. Studies of PCB damage have considered many different end points, but the results of these different studies have never been coordinated to pinpoint the neuropsychologic functions most likely to be damaged by pren...

Conclusions to the Supplement, "Extra-Renal Complications of Cystinosis".

One of the founders of the field of inborn errors of metabolism, J. Edwin Seegmiller, once said, “Cystinosis is a durable, but perhaps not doable, problem.” Since he said that more than 50 years ago, great progress has been made in understanding this complex multiorgan, systemic disease. Now with genotyping readily available, a host of new questions can be asked, such as, why are some late comp...

Lord Lister

i hp; medical man who wishes to gain a clear idea of the broad foundations upon which modern medicine and surgery are based should read two great books which are almost twin classics; Rene Vallery Radot's Life of Pasteur" (English translation by Mrs. Devonshire), and Sir Rickman Godlee's "Lord Lister," the re-appearance of which in a third edition we cordially welcome. Both are finely written s...

[Blessed are the poor in spirit].

Lord Memorial Prize Essay

. Although it may well be unreliable and illogical, is a well-known habit to form firm, lasting, and definite first impressions. That they are often ^accurate and always superficial is to be admitted, but nevertheless they frequently form the basis of our later estimations and prejudice our views for good or evil, the more so when the situation is a new one to us, or one whose arrival we have b...