Lycopodium complanatum, var. flabelliforme with Twenty-Five Spikes

Twenty-five years experience with extracorporeal septoplasty.

Even today, the difficult septum presents a surgical problem. A severe septum deformity is caused mostly by an accident or is seen in patients with malformations such as cleft lip and palate deformity. It is characterized by a massive malformation in all levels with consecutive blocking of one or both airways. Such marked septal deformities cannot be corrected properly by standard septoplasty t...

Twenty-Five Years Ago

Tarasoff at twenty-five.

In 1976, in the landmark case of Tarasoff v. The Regents of the University of California, the California Supreme Court imposed a legal duty on psychotherapists, enforceable by a civil suit for damages, to warn a person who may become a victim of a violent act by a patient. Courts and legislatures in other jurisdictions soon began to examine the subject, and within a decade or so the “duty to wa...

Twenty Five Years Ago

A second individual next went down the shaft of the well with a rope to try and rescue the boy, but was suffocated and ropped into the water. A third then went down, dangled his legs in the water and tried to grasp the two still living bodies between his knees. He suddenly felt suffocated, however, and shouted to be drawn up. This man recovered; he states that he thinks the two were still livin...

Twenty Five Years Ago