To determine the effects of ingested royal jelly (RJ) on the pituitary in middle-aged female rats, we performed a long-term RJ administration test. Several animals showed age-related increases in pituitary weight, and RJ administration compensated for the increase. RJ tended to down-regulate prolactin mRNA and up-regulated thyroid-stimulating hormone beta mRNA in the pituitary. This suggests th...

Press, Limited. 1894. This book, consisting of six lectures delivered in the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, deals in a readable and practical manner with the more common varieties of genito-urinary diseases, and has some useful illustrations. The author states that the views expressed in the chapter on urethral fever and catheter fever received the approval of the late Sir Andrew Clark?who took much...

Lockwood. Pp. 138. Edinburgh: Young J. Pentland. 1896. The book is a reprint of the Hunterian lectures delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons last year. It deals exhaustively with the various forms of micro-organisms, which produce such diseases as septicaemia and septic peritonitis, their modes of infection, and the result of their growth in the tissues. A case of angina Ludovici, in which...

Sin,?Mr. Hall, of the Royal Artillery, in the last number of the Gazette, calls attention to the use of strychnine as a substitute for quinine in the treatment of malarious fevers, and " has never yet met with any mention, in books, of this medicine having been given as a substitute for quinine." In the Year Book of the new Sydenham Society for 1862, at page 51, there will be found a record of ...

This work presents the results of the 2014 Survey of the Veterinary Nursing Profession, carried out on behalf of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) by the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) in the UK regarding demographics, work status, working outside and within the profession, working within clinical practice, internet use, opinions regarding the veterinary nursing profession...

or even from specialists in diseases of the nervous system. The author began the study of this subject about thirty years ago with his graduation thesis on The Physiology of the Larynx (included as a part of the Appendix of this book), for which he received a gold medal from the University of Edinburgh in the year 1865. Having been one of the physicians of the Edinburgh Royal Infimary for many ...

the field ofmedical education, beginning with its origins in the London hospitals and concluding with the ructions engendered by two reports on medical education, that of the Royal Commission chaired by Lord Todd (1968) and the internal one produced by Lord Flowers (1980). Harte is particularly illuminating on the changing relations between the medical schools and the University. Indeed, this i...

The second part of the book details many of Guthrie’s lectures and writings. Following his wartime experiences, he specialised in ophthalmic surgery and wrote three textbooks on eye surgery. He progressed to become President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England on three separate occasions. He enabled the end of “body snatching” by the Anatomy Act of 1832. This remarkable man was multi-li...

Introduction The Paper Historical Collection of the Dutch Royal Library, the National Library of the Netherlands in The Hague, includes amongst its collections forty sheets of a manuscript written on tree bark (KB:I.A.4.). The manuscript, folded in a concertina, measures 194 x 134 mm. It was acquired by auction for the collection in 1970 and was at that time classified as written in Rencong scr...

SOME evidence has come to light which makes it possible to relate three familiar portraits of Dr William Harvey more closely to one another and to suggest a common point of origin from an important branch of the Harvey family. These are the Kent and Canterbury Hospital portrait, the King's Weston version, and the SurrendenDering portrait. Anyone venturing into the field of Harvey portraiture mu...