Heard Island is possibly the remotest speck of land on the Earth. It was only in the 18505 that the human race finally reached this most isolated of places. For the next 30 years gangs of hunters established themselves on the isolated beaches of Heard Island to slaughter the wildlife for their oil and furs and ship the products to markets half-way around the globe. The material culture remains ...

OBJECTIVE Wheezing is a widely used physical sign of asthma that physicians assess in evaluation of their asthmatic patients. It may be possible to teach the parents to recognize it and to assess its severity so as to help them make better informed judgment in monitoring their children with asthma. STUDY DESIGN Parents were taught to recognize wheezing by placing their ear over the chest and ...