EVERY text-book on anmesthesia has been expanding rapid'y during the past ten years. This latest edition in the "Aids" series is no exception, being nearly half as big again as the first edition published in 1941. The author states the book is written for the student and new'ly qualified house surgeon. As few are agreed about the teaching of anesthesia to undergraduates, the choice of some of t...

Otitis externa. Penicillin drops applied to the external meatus appear to me to have no value at all. In otitis externa it must be almost impossible by such means to maintain a sufficient concentration of the drug in contact with the infected tissues. At all events, among some thirty cases I have seen none in which it has given any good result : and in several I had the impression that the appl...

great importance not only from the point of view of the college students but also from that of the community in general, and hence deserving of much more attention than it generally gets, I thought I might write something about the significance of these diseases in the Indian Medical Gazette. The committee have been conducting the medical examination of the Calcutta college students since March...

cutaneous leishmaniasis(cl) is referred to a group of diseases because of the varied clinical presentation, ranging from small cutaneous nodule to wide spread mucosal destruction. the nose is rarely involved by cl in even in endemic region. in this report we describe a rare rhinophymatous presentation of cl from a non-endemic region which was diagnosed by fine needle sampling and treated with m...

Electronic-detection technologies and instruments increasingly are being utilized in the biomedical field to perform a wide variety of clinical operations and laboratory analyses to facilitate the delivery of health care to patients. The introduction of improved electronic instruments for diagnosing diseases and for administering treatments has required new training of laboratory technicians in...

Ear-nose-throat (ENT) manifestations of connective tissue disorders represent a diagnostic challenge for clinicians as they often constitute the initial sign of an otherwise asymptomatic autoimmune disease. Moreover, in patients with known autoimmune rheumatic diseases, ENT manifestations can be overlooked. Hearing disturbances may be seen in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, Wegener'...