Beckwitli and hiis associates(l) described the following features of a condition subsequently called the exomplialos-macroglossia-gigantism (E IG) syndrome: macroglossia; omphalocoele; visceromegaly; somatic gigantism and neonatal hlypoglycemia. Combs et al.(2) studied two clhildren with this syndrome and demonstrated that lhyperinsulinism and polycytlhemia during infancy were also part of the ...

W. McC., age 17 years. This patient attended E.N.T. Extern and was admitted to the Royal Victoria Hospital on the 16th September, 1949. He complained of nasal obstruction for one year which was noticed first on the right side and later on the left. Four months before admission he had a severe epistaxis, during which he lost a considerable amount of blood. He was treated six months previously fo...

Apparent molar compressibilities (φk) and apparent molar volume (φv) of L-valine, L-leucine andL-phenylalanine in aqueous solution of KNO3 at different concentrations have been determined at the temperature 303.15K using a standard ultrasonic frequency of 2 MHz. The above parameters can be evaluated from precise density, ultrasonic velocity and time flow measurements using a specific gravity bo...

rhe INFECTIVE group consists of 674. cases, or 53.8 per cent. of the total admissions, and of this group the rheumatic had 4153 cases, one-third of the total, or 67.2 per cent. of the Infective group. In this group are placed those cases with a definite history of rheumatic fever, chorea, growing pains, tonsillitis, scarlet fever, andl erythema nodosum. Ten per cent. of the patients with a defi...

Electrophysiological techiniques lhave been wiclely uised for the investigation of membrane properties in excitable andl inexcitable tissues. The application of suclh metlho(ds to epitlhelia lhas been extensive, particuilarly for structures that can be mounte(d as an isolated tisstue slheet in special chambers designed to control the bathing soltutions. Witlh respect to the sttu(ly of the renal...

ships between magnetic fields, electroencephalographic changes, and subjective time perception. Suclh investigations will have increasing relevance for human behavior as man renounces the geomagnetic and electromagnetic assumptions of eartlh andl unidertakes prolonged space flight. The above discussions are representative samples from a volume that will surely intrique any curiotus mindl. Its m...

Otutstaniding among the manly fine clhapters is that by Henderson et al. entitle(l "The Adrenal Cortex and OsmoreguLlation in Teleosts." This clhapter does not intro(dtuce new concepts; it stummarizes the relevant (lata on a(lreiocortical hormones in teleosts and(the effects of these steroid lhormones on composition and distribution of body fluiids, renal fuinction, branchial and gastrointestin...

is needed to clarify the mechanisms limiting 0 2 extraction and to suggest a rational therapeutic approach to maintaining 0 2 delivery and uptake. Note that prior studies detected limitations of aerobic metabolism as a relationship between 0 2 delivery and Vo 2 . Yet these variables were calculated from measurements which are not independent, a statistical situation known to cause spurious corr...

THE Council of the Ulster MIedical Society and the Editorial Committee of the ULSTER MEI)ICAL JOURNAL have received, andl accepte(l with very great regret, the resignation of Dr. R. H. Hunter from the office of Editor. Dr. Iliunter has earne(d the very warnm thanks of tJlster (loctors for his work, a1n(d the fact that it has been a labour of love in nIo way lessens either its effort orI its val...

3. The base of the pole has a carbohy(drate makepexactly analogous to that of its lower contiguous aetion, the stem. Movinig upwards along the pole, the picture changes sequentially: first fructosans disappear, then their intermediates, leaving only fuctose, glucose, andl suicrose. On the other hand, in the top-most section of the pole, the seat of lower-head and btulbel formatio<n, the fructos...