Harry Potter's Headaches

The Dirty Harry Problem

Policing constantly places its practitioners in situations in which good ends can be achieved by dirty means. When the ends to be achieved are urgent and unquestionably good and only a dirty means will work to achieve them, the policeman faces a genuine moral dilemma. A genuine moral dilemma is a situation from which one cannot emerge innocent no matter what one does-employ a dirty means, emplo...

Harry Beal Torrey , Matthew

I t is now 16 years since Nowikoff (1908) accelerated the division rate of Paramecium by adding thyroid gland to his cultures. Later , Shumway (1914) reached the same conclusion after a series of more critical and painstaking experiments, and in the following year Budington and Harvey (1915) showed tha t thyroids from various vertebrates would produce similar results. Still later, Shumway (1917...

Unusual headaches

Headaches presented with unusual manner like cough, exertion, and sex, poses a diagnostic challenge in the emergency room or primary care provider's office. The majority of these patients have no underlying intracranial pathologic condition and have a good prognosis. Since the pathophysiology is poorly understood, treatment choices are limited. Further research is needed to elucidate the pathop...

Orthostatic Headaches

The syndrome of low-pressure CSF headaches was first recognized following diagnostic lumbar puncture. In the 1940s and 50s, Woltman in the United States ( [1] ) and Schaltenbrand in Germany ( [2] ) described "spontaneous" posture-related low-pressure headaches that did not develop after lumbar puncture. In spontaneous CSF leaks, there is sometimes a history of strenuous activity or tr...

Harry S.N. Greene, M.D.