February 12th Question

12th February, 2001

Virtual reality was used to sequentially present objects within a town square and to test recognition of object locations from the same viewpoint as presentation, or from a shifted viewpoint. A developmental amnesic case with focal bilateral hippocampal pathology showed a massive additional impairment when tested from the shifted viewpoint compared to a mild, list length-dependent, impairment w...

Chronic Infection of the Cervix *Read 12th February 1930.

palliative as opposed to the operative treatment of all but the exceptional cases of active salpingitis. In the past it was customary to carry out surgical intervention, ending often in extensive and mutilating operations and attended with a not inappreciable mortality in those cases deemed to be streptococcal, the palliative procedure being reserved for the gonococcal cases. The rapid, immedia...

Notes on Three Cases of Interstitial Tubal Pregnancy *Held as read 12th February 1930.

was aroused by the occurrence in our hospital work of two cases. These two cases we wish to report to you, and with them also we would include a further example (the most arresting of the three) which came under the care of Professor Johnstone, and in which case one of us (E. C. F.) had also been directly interested. Instances of interstitial pregnancy are admittedly of rare occurrence, and in ...

Acute Intestinal Obstruction *An address given to the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society, February 12th, 1930.

The Treatment of Chronic Constipation: A Discussion at the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society, February 12th, 1913

The contents of the small intestine are fluid in character, travel rapidly through the 22 feet of its length, and begin to issue through the ileo-csecal valve within four to five hours of a meal. They travel through the large intestine far more slowly, reaching the hepatic flexure in six and a half hours, the splenic flexure in nine hours, and the pelvic colon in about eighteen hours?in a semi-...