NEUROLOGICAL JOTTINGS

Oriental Medicine—Stray Jottings

Miscellaneous Jottings from Daily Practice

2.?Treatment of fractured ribs. The usual practice in the Punjab hospitals and dispensaries is to apply a broad roller round the chest. I have seen sometimes great inconvenience to arise from the use of a bandage, pressing on both sides of the chest and limiting the free play of the lungs. In one case dyspnoea was very troublesome. Straps of sticking plaster applied on the whole of the injured ...

Ophthalmological Jottings from a Leave Diary

thesis in India, and as it is now becoming more and more common for Indians to want glass eyes, and as I personally have had great difficulties in getting patients well fitted, I determined to see how the expert dealt with the matter. To this end I visited Mr. Taylor of New Oxford Street on three or four occasions. To those who watch skilled glass blowing for the first time it appears a perfect...

Text is Jottings Plus Procedure (JoPP)

Allen Renear's excellent target paper describes a number of general positions on the question of what text is. I nd none of them satisfying. By my (confessedly idiosyncratic) lights, text is ultimately composed of jottings plus procedures for unpacking these jottings. Such a view marks an attempt to take seriously, via formalisms in use in the eld of Artiicial Intelligence, an interesting thoug...

Electronic jottings: A scientists view of intellectual property rights

What is it famous for? While being the main UK government's agency for funding biomedical research, it is probably best known for having nurtured British molecular biology in Cambridge in the golden decade of the 1950s — whence came the double helix model of DNA (James Watson and Francis Crick), the first amino-acid sequence of a protein (insulin, Fred Sanger), and the first three-dimensional p...