Professor Simpson, Vice-President, read the following telegram from Dr Brewis:?" Teneriffe.?Please express at meeting President's sorrow for Society's loss," and said:?In the absence of our President the sorrowful duty falls on me to try to say something as to the sense we all feel of the loss, the great loss, the Society has sustained through the death of Dr Milne Murray. It is more than a yea...

In a previous commentary, I offered my personal view as to the recipient-as-reproductive-being issue. I quote: “The fact that the gonads belong to the body donor is actually a facilitator for the whole enterprise. Imagine the parents of the brain dead body donor – racked by sorrow and despair for their loss – who are told that, once the new being will start reproducing, his or her offspring wil...

^He death of Herbert Lavington Evans, of Goring-on-Thames, April 9th, at the age of 65, due to acute pneumonia following ^fluenza is a grave sorrow to his old Bristol Medical School fiends. He was educated at Clifton College, UniversityCollege, Bristol, Edinburgh University and at Guy s Hospital. He was a Clinical Assistant at the Bristol Eye Hospital before he settled J1 Practice at Goring-on-...

This paper describes ome further attempts to identify and measure those parameters in the speech signal that reflect the emotional state of a speaker. High-quality recordings were obtained of professional "method" actors reading the dialogue of a short scenario specifically written to contain various emotional situations. Excerpted portions of the recordings were subjected to both quantitative ...

The plural of anecdote is not data, as scientists will tell you, but consider these snapshots of the emerging happiness debate anyway: Lately, Jerome Wakefield's students have been coming up to him after they break up with a boyfriend or girlfriend, and not because they want him to recommend a therapist. Wakefield, a professor at New York University, coauthored the 2007 book "The Loss of Sadnes...

Prospective studies using video-recordings of patients during mechanical ventilator treatment (MVT) while conscious have not previously been published. The aim was to describe patients' statements, communication and facial expressions during a video-recorded interview while undergoing MVT. Content analysis and hermeneutics inspired by the philosophy of Gadamer were used. The patients experience...

Violent acts such as a school shooting, domestic violence, suicides, gang fights, sexual assault, homicides, violence seen in the media (real or fantasy), and acts of terrorism have sudden, unpredictable and dramatic effects on children and their families. In addition, the sudden death of a family member, friend, or pet can devastate a child. Acts of violence have an inordinate negative impact ...

April to June 2008, at Universidade Federal do Paraná, in three hospitals, one higher education school and one secondary education school. The objectives were: to analyze the presence of psychological violence in the professional practice of nurses; to characterize the type of violence and the aggressor; to identify the victim's reactions after the aggression. Interviews were performed with 161...

Older adults sometimes demonstrate a mnemonic "positivity effect," remembering more positive than negative information. The present study examined whether this effect would occur for arousing words (elation vs slaughter) or for nonarousing ones (serenity vs sorrow). The results revealed no positivity effect for arousing words: Young and older adults remembered negative and positive arousing wor...

The rational or commonsense way of removing that terrible curse?" In sorrow thou shall bring forth children "?was solved for me some nine years ago when I read Dr. Lahmann's Natural Hygiene and Dr. Alice B. Stockham's Tokology. Until I had studied these two books I was under the impression that, whilst painless and easy delivery is the rule amongst animals, it rarely occurs in civilised human b...