X RAYS IN OBSTETRIC PRACTICE.

X-Rays in General Practice

Dedicated to Sir Benjamin Franklin, this book is intended tor the use of the general practitioner, the student and other non-experts in X-rays. It begins with a briet historical sketch, and an assurance that with reasonable care an X-rays apparatus is not difficult to keep in working order, and a refutation of the imputation that patients run any risk during radiography at the hands of a compet...

General Practice and X-Rays

Obstetric audit in general practice.

Many recent papers have tried to show how inadvisable it is for general practitioners to undertake obstetric care and more especially obstetric deliveries.1-3 The high proportion of artificially induced labours, the enthusiasm for the increasing "mechanisation" of labour, descriptions of unexpected and sinister disease that the inexperienced obstetrician would not detect have all made general p...

Obstetric Therapeutics; Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics in Obstetric Practice

Subject headings: galaxies: general—galaxies: spiral—X-rays: general—X-rays: galaxies—X-rays: ISM

We present results from the analysis of deep ROSAT HRI and PSPC observations of the spiral galaxy M81. The inferred total (0.5–2 keV band) luminosity of M81 is ∼ 3×10 ergs s, excluding the contribution from identified interlopers found within the D25 ellipse. The nucleus of the galaxy alone accounts for about 65% of this luminosity. The rest is due to 26 other X-ray sources (contributing ∼ 10%)...