New Periodicals of 1943-Part I

In memoriam: Alexander I. Klimov (1943-2013).

A new herball, Part I

The new Bude edition of the Roman encyclopaedist Celsus begins promisingly. It marks an improvement over the standard, 1915, edition of F Marx, from whichW G Spencer made his Loeb translation, not only by removing many of its idiosyncratic spellings but also by being able to take account of a new manuscript, Toledo 97,12. While in general agreeing with MS. J., the new manuscript alone has the c...

New Formulations of Local Anaesthetics—Part I

Part 1 comments on the types of local anaesthetics (LAs); it provides a better understanding of the mechanisms of action of LAs, and their pharmacokinetics and toxicity. It reviews the newer LAs such as levobupivacaine, ropivacaine, and articaine, and examines the newer structurally different LAs. The addition of adjuvants such as adrenaline, bicarbonate, clonidine, and corticosteroids is explo...

Quantum Electromagnetics: A New Look, Part I∗

Quantization of the electromagnetic field has been a fascinating and important subject since its inception. This subject topic will be discussed in its simplest terms so that it can be easily understood by a larger community of researchers. A new way of motivating Hamiltonian mechanics is presented together with a novel way of deriving the quantum equations of motion for electromagnetics. All e...

New concepts in hypertrophic cardiomyopathies, part I.

Etiology of Familial Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (FHCM) is a disease in which the dominant and characteristic phenotype is hypertrophy without obvious cause. In adults, the cause of this disease is always genetic; however, the proportion of individuals inheriting the disease as opposed to developing a de novo mutation (sporadic) remains to be determined. Bec...