Lepetit and Jackson Reply:

Lepetit and Jackson reply:.

Reply to Jackson.

TO THE EDITOR—We appreciate Dr Jackson’s thoughtful comments regarding the diagnostic criteria for encephalitis proposed by the International Encephalitis Consortium (IEC) Working Group [1]. He raises concerns that (1) individual patients may have laboratory or pathologic evidence of encephalitis without meeting the clinical criteria specified in the IEC case definition, and (2) that patients w...

Knowing Qualia: A Reply to Jackson

In a recent paper concerning the direct introspection of brain states (1985b) I leveled three criticisms against Frank Jackson's "knowledge argument." At stake was his bold claim that no materialist account of mind can possibly account for all mental phenomena. Jackson has replied to those criticisms in his 1986. It is to those replies, and to the issues that prompted them, that the present cha...

Synthomycetine (Lepetit) in Typhoid Fever

Synthomycetine, a new Synthetic brand of Chloramphenicol was tried in two cases of typhoid fever culturally positive. The dosage schedule was moderate and no initial loading dosage was used. The effects on the temperature chart was shown below were not dramatic and, in fact, in the second case it took seven days for the temperature to touch normal (probably due to urinary complications). But ge...

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