any practical way of treating the following condition? I have a patient who is a young Bengali girl of 20 quite healthy and robust. She was in love with a healthy young man, whom she married some two years back. Both the husband and the wife deny a history of even a single act of successful coitus, since their marriage. This being a very obstinate case of vaginismus, I have carefully gone into ...

I N 1689 J. Baptkta Scaramucci2 published two hypotheses which have played a great part in the history of the physiology of the heart: the first, that the deeper coronary vessels are squeezed empty by the contraction of the muscle fibres which surround them; and the secondi, that the coronary vessels are refilled from the aorta during the diastole of the heart. In 1707, Stroem 3 added to these ...

Image parsing is vital for many high-level image understanding tasks. Although both parametric and non-parametric approaches have achieved remarkable success, many technical challenges still prevail for images containing things/objects with broad-coverage and high-variability, because it still lacks versatile and effective strategies to seamlessly integrate local–global features selection, cont...

We report on a patient initially diagnosed with a chronic subdural haematoma that was resistant to treatment. After the second burr hole craniostomy within a half month failed to resolve the subdural haematoma (SDH), we performed a craniotomy to identify the point of bleeding. Macroscopic evaluation showed that most of the outer membrane of the SDH was transparent; however, further examination ...

Chronic infections are one of the major challenges in orthopaedic surgery, both for surgeons and patients. They are characterised by obstinate persistency of the causing microorganisms and resulting long-term disablement of the patients, associated with remarkable costs for the health care system.Difficulties derive from the biofilm-mode of living of pathogens with resistances against immunolog...

What is at stake when we speak about freedom of the press "is the freedom to perform a function on behalf of the polity.'' Lewis cites Supreme Court Justice Powell, who observed: "no individual can obtain for himself the information needed for the intelligent discharge of his political responsibilities.... By enabling the public to assert meaningful control over the political process, the press...