DERMATOLOGIC MEDICATIONS. By M. R. Lerner and A. B. Lerner. Chicago, The Yearbook Publisher, 1960. 208 pp. $6.00. The renaissance in dermatology which is being led by a small group of research-trained clinical dermatologists has produced much new basic scientific knowledge and a distinct improvement in patient care. The achievements of the authors of the present volume place them in the forefro...

Narcotics Tranquilizer Medical professionals PGIMER CHD The medical professionals are vulnerable to substances of abuse/addiction due to their ready accessibility to the substances of abuse. Of particular concern is the finding of a lack of gender differences in problematic drinking with the pattern of female addicts drinking rates for women approximating that of men by the end of medical schoo...

Since methotrimeprazine proved to be both an effective tranquilizer and analgesic, its effect in a tranquilizing dose of 0.15 mg/kg on the arterial blood gases was determined in human volunteers. Because of the known potentiating effect of some phenothiazines on the narcotic-analgesic induced respiratory depression and analgesia, the effect of methotrimeprazine on the meperidine-induced respira...

DERMATOLOGIC MEDICATIONS. By M. R. Lerner and A. B. Lerner. Chicago, The Yearbook Publisher, 1960. 208 pp. $6.00. The renaissance in dermatology which is being led by a small group of research-trained clinical dermatologists has produced much new basic scientific knowledge and a distinct improvement in patient care. The achievements of the authors of the present volume place them in the forefro...

Epigraph, Free Will in Action: A philosophy professor of my acquaintance who smoked was arguing with someone in a bar in favor of free will. She self-consciously ground out her cigarette and threw the rest of the pack away. (She never smoked again.) “THAT'S free will,” she practically screamed. Theworld, led by the United States, is hell bent on establishing the absence of choice in addiction, ...

Psychological stress and illness among hospital residences have been subject to increasing scientific scrutiny; however very few studies have been published to describe the extent of health status and psychological stresses in residents in different specialties especially in our country that our study was mainly focused on this subject. Methods: The study subjects were medical residents in publ...

used in the brewing industry to add bitterness and aroma to beer. Hop is also used in folk medicine as a tranquilizer, and in Japan, it is formulated in over the counter (OTC) drugs for depression of the central nervous system or the activation of gastric function. Moreover, it has been reported that the hop shows a wide range of the physiological roles, such as an inhibitory effect on the bone...

OBJECTIVES 40 years ago, the sudden increase of births of babies with a range of severe deformities shocked the world. It was caused by the tranquilizer thalidomide. Women who took the drug in the first trimester of pregnancy gave birth to children with a wide but distinctive range of malformations. Thalidomide claimed more than 10,000 victims worldwide. Those who survived are now reaching midd...

The tranquilizer and anti-convulsant diazepam (DZ) is a suspected aneugen. In order to assess its aneugenic potential in mammalian oogenesis we exposed in vitro maturing mouse oocytes to the drug. Spindle formation and cell cycle progression, the behaviour of chromosomes and the distribution of mitochondria were characterized with respect to induction of numerical chromosomal aberrations. A con...

In the literature, there are some data which indicate that benzodiazepines and other chemical compounds with the same mechanism of action (Diazepam, Chlordiazepoxide, Lorazepam, Zopiclone, etc.) also have other effects. We investigated the effects of experimental chronic inflammation under the administration of some tranquilizers and hypnotics on peripheral algesia induced in rats by "writhing ...