President Dr. Hill; Medical Authorities of Dallas, Texas; Dear Doctors; Ladies and Gentlemen.’ This conference takes place in affiliation with the Second Mexican Blood Transfusion Congress. Now allow me to state briefly the outstanding points of Mexican Medical History. Mexico is a name which, in the minds of many persons, has had connotations quite different from reality. For some people it ap...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is characterized by the presence of an abnormal hypertrophy of the left ventricle (LV), without dilation, and in the absence of any condition or another cardiac or systemic disease capable of inducing such hypertrophy. This primary or idiopathic hypertrophy can occur with or without dynamic obstruction (induced by exercise) of the LV outflow tract, so in its na...

Yet each in itself – this was the uncanny, the antiorganic, the life-denying character of them all – each of them was absolutely symmetrical, icily regular in form. They were too regular, as substance adapted to life never was to this degree – the living principle shuddered at this perfect precision, found it deathly, the very marrow of death – Hans Castorp felt he understood now the reason why...

Iron deficiency has been described as ‘probably the most frequent nutritional deficiency in the world’ with perhaps 2 billion individuals across the world suffering the most obvious outcome – iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) (Hallberg et al, 2000). In its more severe forms, IDA leads to significant symptomatology and is accompanied by profound pallor. Yet anaemia as a specific cause of pallor seem...

The objective of this chapter is to present a historical review of the field of irreversible electroporation (IRE) in the context of its medical applications. Although relevant scientific observations were made since the 18 th century, the electroporation phenomenon was not identified as an increase of membrane permeability until mid 20 th century. After that, multiple applications of reversibl...

Today, we see that despite the plans and decisions made about the historical fabric, the people are very faintly seen and conservation the historic fabric of urban is one of the main concerns management urban In the absence of efficient management and lack of attention to the needs of local people, the historical Fabric Urban is destroyed. In this article are examined Ways other than physical m...

in his seminal book on the historical periods of western attitudes toward death, philippe aries describes four consecutive periods through which these attitudes evolved and transformed. according to him, the historical attitudes of western cultures have passed through four major parts described above: “tamed death,” one’s own death,” “thy death,” and “forbidden death.” this paper, after explori...