SIR B. BRODIE ON SPINAL CURVATURES.

Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie

outline of the events which make this volume so well worthy of perusal. Brodie's character as a man deserves very careful study; and the insight which the book gives us into the condition of the profession and the state of society at the time when he lived is by no means its least instructive part. Brodie had many interests outside his profession, and his views on various questions of psycholog...

Home Exercise for Spinal Curvatures

The Relief and Cure of Spinal Curvatures

Ltd. 1897. There is nothing very original in this small book, which is written^ " for the General Practitioner by a General Practi* tioner." It is illustrated by a large number of photographs 01 cases which have been under the author's care, but most 0 them are of little value in conveying information to the readerThe chapters on treatment are eminently practical and judiciousMechanical treatme...

Commentary on Faught and Brodie

When a new antiepilepsy agent is being evaluated it is critical, but not always feasible, to have access to two different kinds of information. The first is efficacy data from rigorous, prospective, randomized double-blind trials. The second is information on the drug’s ‘‘effectiveness’’ in a large population of patients, with a broad spectrum of seizure types, who are treated in a more ‘‘real ...

The 2006 Bernard B. Brodie Award Lecture. Cyp2e1.

Bernard B. Brodie's laboratory was the first to examine the mechanisms of drug-induced toxicity at the molecular level. They found that acetaminophen hepatotoxicity was due to the metabolic activation of the drug to a highly reactive toxic metabolite that depleted cellular glutathione and covalently bound to protein. Subsequent studies revealed that activation of acetaminophen to an active meta...