Pregnant women have been delivered in the Belfast City Hospital since 1842. These first patients were destitute inmates of the Workhouse. Over a number of years many reports of maternal deaths due to puerperal sepsis had been presented to the Board of Governors. At a meeting in August 1892 the members agreed to build a new hospital for maternity patients. This unit consisted of three wards, eac...

brain ischemia: protection from irreversible damage with a rapid acting barbiturate (Methohexital). Stroke 3: 726-732, 1972 11. Clasen R, Pandolfi S, Casey D: Furosemide and pentobarbital in cryogenic cerebral injury and edema. Neurology (Minneap) 24: 642-648, 1974 12. Smith A, Marque J: Anesthetics and cerebral edema. Anesthesiology 45: 64-72, 1976 13. Anderson D, Crawford R: Corticosteroids i...

The causative organism of gonorrhoea, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, has a special predilection for columnar epithelium. It is a delicate organism easily destroyed by heat, drying, mild antiseptics, and soap solutions. Transference of infection occurs when moist infective discharges come into contact with susceptible mucous membranes. Although the usual portal of entry of N. gonorrhoeae is the lower ge...

The development of a mild metabolic acidosis during general anaesthesia has been reported by many workers (Bunker, Brewster, Smith, and Beecher, 1952; Pontius, Watkins, Manheim, Allen, Sauvage, and Gross, 1958; Robertson and Frazer, 1958). Likewise the early onset of a slight but definite metabolic acidosis has been observed in dogs during cyclopropane anaesthesia and the degree of acidosis was...

INTRODUCTION Rigid endoscopes, now available in varying angles (ranging from 0° to 20°), have given otolaryngologists unparalleled visualization of the paranasal sinuses. However, visualization without proper instrumentation to access difficult-to-reach areas can make sinus treatment frustrating and ineffective. Suction access to different areas within the nose and sinuses is not a straightforw...

GENERAL Editorial Note: Books etc. received during the month. Brit. Amer. J. Med. Phys. 2: 226 (1846). This shows Boston Medical and Surgical J. including Bigelow's paper on ether anaesthesia is brought to Canada as early as in November 1846. Medical News: Employment of Chloroform in Canada. Lancet (London) 1: 350 (1848). Report on Dr Nelson's lithotomy on a man under the influence of chlorofor...

The lipolytic hypothesis of fat absorption advocated by Verzar and McDougall7 in 1936 maintains: that ingested fat undergoes emulsification to soap and complete hydrolysis to fatty acid and glycerol in the small intestine; that a solid pavement epithelial structure exists on the intestinal mucosal cells; that the fatty acids pass through the membrane as soluble complexes with bile salts, while ...

The formation of partial glycerides by the hydrolysis in vitro of triglycerides with pancreatic lipase was first reported by Artom and Reale (1) and then again several years later by Frazer and Sammons (2). In these studies apparently no attention was paid to the isomeric form of the digestion products. Desnuelle et al. (3) further studied the hydrolysis of triglycerides and showed it to be a s...

A coarray-based synthetic aperture beamformer using stepped-frequency signal synthesis and post-data acquisition processing is presented for wideband imaging of near-field scenes. The proposed beamformer formulation and implementation finds key applications in through-the-wall microwave imaging and landmine detection problems. While coarray techniques offer significant reduction in array elemen...

BACKGROUND: Fentanyl buccal tablet (FBT; FENTORA(R), Cephalon, Inc., Frazer, PA, USA) is indicated in the US for breakthrough pain in patients with cancer who are already receiving and are tolerant to around-the-clock opioid therapy for underlying persistent cancer pain. For each individual patient, FBT should be titrated to the effective dose. OBJECTIVE: The primary objective was to characteri...