Sir,?In reply to Capt. T. D. W. Gillespie's inquiry in the Novtmber issue of the I. M. Q. as to the quantity of quinine urea hydrochloride to be injected hypodermically to produce local anaesthesia, I may say as follows: In the New York Medical Journal (1915, II, 708) Amster recommends quin-urea hydro as a local anaesthetic. He has performed 200 severe operations with a freshly prepared solutio...

Night-blindness was attributed to scurvy by Capt. Cook, even though it failed to clear up like other scorbutic symptoms when the patient got fresh lemons. Baraffield noted in 1814 that fresh meat and vegetables,added to the diet, improved night vision, whereas antiscorbutics did not ; yet he too regarded it as a manifestation of scurvy. The full picture of vitamin A deficiency, as it affects th...

There are two valuable but highly technical descriptions. The first is a study of the sucking apparatus of a small brown fly found throughout the oriental region and of a genus closely allied to Musca. It is a very common blood sucking fly of cattle in Madras. The second study by Capt. Cragg is of the Hcematopota pluvialis, a gadfly or cleg of the family of Tabanidae. It attacks man, cattle or ...

_~ A. A I OF -E' The automatic control panel of the C54 which recently made the pilotless transatlantic flight being inspected by James L. Anast (right), chief of the Army's automatic flight branch of the All-Weather Flying Center, and Capt. Thomas J. Wells (left), Army test pilot, of Orlando, Florida, shortly after the plane's arrival at the Brise Norton Aerodrome near London on September 23 (...

Capt. Herbert Schwarz AICC [email protected] Abstract Learning management systems provide an indispensable basis for the manifold training requirements of flight crew, ground staff, engineering and maintenance personnel mandatory to the airline industry. Screening and deployment of such a system is a complex endeavor which is discussed against the background of specific requirements of the airl...

By Surgn.-Capt. P. IIeiiiu, m.d., f.r.s.e., d.p.h. Camb., Fellow, Santy. Inst., Fellow of British Inst., Pub. Health, Health Officer, Chudderghat Municipality. 1 iieiie are three varieties ot wells, shallow or superficial, deep and artesian. The last mentioned may be considered a variety of deep well, and we will dispose of it with a few words, for the reason that artesian wells have, up to dat...

By Capt. C. C. DAS GUPTA, m.b., Chief Medical Officer, Gopalpur Tea Estate, P. O. Gopalbagan, Jalpaiguri. Mrs. H., Hindu female, aged 24 years, 2-para, suffered from incessant fever from the 13th August, 1927, and I was called in to see her on the 16th of that month as her temperature had risen to 105-6?F. that morning. I found her having a rigor and covered with a quilt. 1 applied cold spongin...

Cross-linguistic comparison is a good starting point for computer-assisted pronunciation training (CAPT). A comparison between the segment inventories of a learner’s mother tongue (L1) and the target language (L2) can be made on the basis of the IPA categories. Since these are claimed to reflect universal phonemic distinctions, mastering the contrasts in the target language in perception and pr...