Nathan Smith and Cancer Therapy *

Notes on the Materia Medica of Nathan Smith *

Included in the curriculum of the Medical Institution of Yale College for the year 1814-15 was a course of lectures in the Therapy and Practise of Physic offered by Doctor Nathan Smith. Attendant upon these lectures was one Dan King, whose note-book summarizes Nathan Smith's views at that time with respect to the dassification of diseases, their symptomatology, and, to some degree, the modes of...

The centrifugal pathway for micturition within the spinal cord.

In previous papers we have described the location in man of the spinal pathways subserving sensation from the lower bowel and the motor aspects of defaecation (Nathan and Smith, 1953), and the spinal pathways subserving sensation from the bladder and urethra (Nathan and Smith, 1951; Nathan, 1952). It remains now to show the location in the spinal cord of the pathways used in the conscious contr...

Effectiveness of Child-Centered Mindfulness Therapy on The Aggression and Cortisol Level of the Children with Cancer After Drug Therapy

Purpose: Emergence of chronic physiologic diseases such as cancer results in psychological distress for the inflected children. Therefore, the objective of the present study was to investigate child-centered mindfulness therapy on the aggression and cortisol level after drug therapy in the children with cancer. Method: The research method was quasi-experimental with pretest, posttest, control g...

Non-Androgen Regulated Transcription Factors as Novel Potential Targets for Prostate Cancer Therapy

Current concepts in rectal cancer.

The history of rectal cancer management informs current therapy and points us in the direction of future improvements. Multidisciplinary team management of rectal cancer will move us to personalized treatment for individuals with rectal cancer in all stages.