Reply to S. M. Isakari and R. C. J. Somerville

Reply to J M Stanley: fiddling and clarity.

The author responds to John M. Stanley's criticism ("More fiddling with the definition of death?" Journal of Medical Ethics 1987 Mar; 13(1): 21-22) and clarifies the arguments in his own previous article ("Why let people die?" Journal of Medical Ethics 1986 Jun; 12(2): 83-86). Gillett contends that we must decide what ethical stance we should adopt toward the living but nonsentient, devoid of ...

Reply to letter from J. Finsterer and S. Zarrouk-Mahjoub

We thank Dr. Finsterer and Dr. Zarrouk-Mahjoub for their comments, in which they argue for further neurological workup of the present case [1]. We agree that neurological assessment is an integral part of the multidisciplinary approach to patients presenting with syncope. However, the authors neglect the fact that our patient was only referred after neurological investigations, which yielded no...

A Case of Primary Adenitis under the Care of Surgeon J. C. Lucas, M. D., F. R. C. S.

a lymphatic gland, is a rare affection, and very few cases of it, I believe, are on record, I propose here to briefly describe the following case :? Suppurative adenitis occurs very frequently as the result of secondary implication from local absorption, through lymph vessels situated at its distal end, of sources of irritation, as for example, the ordinary bubo of the groin in cases of a sore ...

And Cubic F O R M S

S - J . Vick , D . Bovet & J . R . Anderson

The ability to discriminate between pairs of photographs according to the portrayed model’s visual attention status was examined in four olive baboons. Two baboons successfully managed to solve the problem, even when attention was demonstrated by eye direction alone. A third showed an ability to discriminate head direction but not eye direction. In order to investigate further their ability to ...