The Inquisitive Physician. The Life and Times of George Francis Minot

The Sociology of the Deceased Harvard Medical Unit at Boston City Hospital

Many graduates of the Harvard Medical Unit (HMU) at Boston City Hospital, in either the clinical training/residency program or the research program at the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, contributed in major ways to the HMU and constantly relived their HMU experiences. The HMU staff physicians, descending from founder and mentor physicians Francis W. Peabody, Soma Weiss, and George R. Minot, wer...

The Viscous Metamorphosis of the Blood

Inquisitive Analysis of the Point Source Effect on Propagation of SH Wave Through an Orthotropic Crustal Layer

The occurrence of SH wave propagation under the effect of a point source in an orthotropic substratum lying over a heterogeneous orthotropic half space is deliberated in the prospect of a devastating earthquake. The quadratic alteration is acknowledged for density and shear modulus which is hypothesized to be a function of depth. The method of Green's function and transformation technique contr...

Gissing’s Zolaist determinism and the heroines of The Nether World

Zola, in his book The Experimental Novel, introduces the aspects of what is now called the naturalistic novel. Later on, Zola’s ideas were exported to the English literature and the works of English novelists. George Gissing is one of the English authors who have successfully adopted the premises and the key elements of Zola’s naturalistic novel in their work. This paper deals with the naturali...

N-Acetylcysteine Overdose After Acetaminophen Poisoning

N-acetylcysteine (NAC) is a drug  used  widely and effectively in oral  and  ‎intravenous  forms  as  a  specific  antidote  for acetaminophen poisoning.  In children ‎considering the toxic dose of acetaminophen ingested by the patient and the body weight, the ‎physician prescribes a specific dose of NAC. There is always a risk of  iatrogenic overdose of  ‎NAC  which can cause different mild to...