Nuntia ad Floram Japoniae. XXXVI

The COPD Pipeline XXXVI.

Contract Pharma is a publication that reviews, among other things, the pharmaceutical industry annually. Those of us who work in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) take an interest in the source of the drugs we use and Contract Pharma brings that information to us. Each year they report the status of the top 25 pharmaceutical companies.1 For each pharma, a report lists the newly appro...

Notes on Some Remedies. XXXVI. Penicillin

Clinical studies of induction agents. XXXVI: Ketamine.

The intravenous anaesthetic ketamine has been given to patients undergoing minor gynaecological surgery after atropine prcmedication in initial doses ranging from 1.0 to 3.0 mg/kg. The chief induction complications were hypertension and hypertonus, the incidence of which was only broadly related to dosage. Recovery of consciousness was rapid, though marred by a high incidence of delirium at all...

Lecture XXXVI: Introduction to cosmological perturbations

We begin by considering a spatially flat FRW universe, which has background metric ds = a(η)(−dη + δijdxdx). (1) Note here that we use the conformal time η instead of t as our time coordinate, for consistency with the rest of cosmological perturbation theory. In this case, the spatial metric is γij(η, x ) = a(η)δij . We will also introduce the conformal Hubble rate, H(η) = d ln a(η) dη = aH (2)...

Fat-soluble Vitamins Xxxvi. the Carotene and Vitamin a Content of Butter*

As one would expect from its general dietary importance, butter has frequently been assayed biologically for its total vitamin A activity. The published results of such assays, however, vary widely, not only because of variations in butter itself, but because of variations in the method of assay, in the met,hod of interpreting data, and in t,he method of expressing result’s. Sherman and Smith (...