Rembert G. Weakland, OSB. A Pilgrim in a Pilgrim Church

A pilgrim seeking diagnosis

We present the case of an unusual presentation of Dressler’s syndrome and the important role of new imaging techniques in its diagnosis. A 42-year-old man was admitted with progressive dyspnoea and pleuritic chest pain during the last two months. Physical examination showed signs of hemodynamic instability (BP 75/40, HR 120 bpm). X-Ray showed cardiomegaly and electrocardiogram was suggestive of...

Litholapaxy at Gaya Pilgrim Hospital

Introducing the PilGRIM: A Processor for Executing Lazy Functional Languages

Processor designs specialized for functional languages received very little attention in the past 20 years. The potential for exploiting more parallelism and the developments in hardware technology, ask for renewed investigation of this topic. In this paper, we use ideas from modern processor architectures and the state of the art in compilation, to guide the design of our processor, the PilGRI...

High altitude pulmonary oedema (HAPE) in an Indian pilgrim.

Increasing number of Hindu pilgrims visit the Himalayas where some of them suffer from high altitude illness including the life threatening forms, high altitude pulmonary oedema (HAPE) and high altitude cerebral oedema. Compared to tourists and trekkers, pilgrims are usually ignorant about altitude illness. This is a case of a pilgrim who suffered from HAPE on his trip to Kailash-Mansarovar and...

Notes of Cases Treated in the Puri Pilgrim Hospital

No. I. ? Besiki, 7 years of age, admitted 13th April 1889, is employed in leading her father, who is a beggar and blind. History of a fall, two months before, injuring the left knee-joint. When the patient came to the hospital she was unable to stand and progressed in a sitting posture, pushing herself along with her hands. Stated that she had not been able to stand since the accident, and had ...