Chronic atelectasis and pneumonia of the middle lobe have been described as a clinical syndrome, of which the essential pathological feature is an obstruction of the middle lobe bronchus. The cause of obstruction may be intraluminal or extraluminal, specific causes such as tumour or active tuberculosis not included. Graham, Burford, and Mayer (1948) reported 12 cases in which the syndrome resul...

UNLABELLED When thyroid tissues exhibited concentrations of therapeutic (131)I that appeared to be less than that predicted by data from the preceding diagnostic (131)I, the phenomenon was called stunning. We hypothesized that stunning arose from the early effects of the therapeutic dose of (131)I and that the initial uptake of (131)I, observed within the first day, was not impaired by the diag...

The most deliberate part of first-language teaching is the business of telling a child what each thing is called. We ordinarily speak of the name of a thing as if there were just one, but in fact, of course, every referent has many names. The dime in my pocket is not only a dime. It is also money, a metal object, a thing, and, moving to subordinates, it is a 1952 dime, in fact a particular 1952...

Array comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) is a high-throughput lab technique to measure genome-wide chromosomal copy numbers. Data from aCGH experiments require extensive pre-processing, which consists of three steps: normalization, segmentation and calling. Each of these pre-processing steps yields a different data set: normalized data, segmented data, and called data. Publications using ...

a snake, about hnlf-an-hour previously. The Native Doctor of the E. B. R. Co. had arrived before me, and applied an Esrnareh's elastic band as a ligature, and had incised, what he believed to be, the fang punctures. On arrival I found the man lying on a maichan, his right arm, which had been ligatured above the elbow, was tense and bleeding at the incised part. He was apparently drowsy and only...

EDITORIAL SYNOPSIS Observations are described in an 8-year-old boy, the fifth case to be recognized of the syndrome previously known as 'congenital alkalosis with diarrhoea'. The condition appears to result from an abnormal handling of chloride ion in the alimentary tract; the pathognomic biochemical features are an invariably high faecal concentration of chloride and liquid stools which consis...

A journal called " I wonder why not " Like the question below, papers addressing this could lead to advances in our understanding of inflammatory disease and pain. I wonder why I have never had a wart; nor a cold sore and I have never had the flu and very few colds. My son couldn't get chicken pox, despite putting him on purpose in contact with infected individuals, for months; finally he got I...