Amyloidosis in adult rheumatoid arthritis is well documented (Table I). Rosenberg, Baggenstoss, and Hench (1944) reported an incidence of 6-6 per cent. in a study of thirty post mortem cases and Unger, Zuckerbrod, Beck, and Steele (1948a) recorded a similar incidence (6 -9 per cent. in 58 cases), but Teilum and Lindahl (1954) found it in 60-7 per cent. of 28 post mortem cases. Missen and Taylor...

BACKGROUND Abdominal drains have been placed prophylactically and removed in liver resection without robust evidence. The present study was designed to establish the optimal time for removal of such drains. METHODS Data on abdominal prophylactic drains were analysed in a consecutive series of patients who underwent liver resection for malignancy between 2006 and 2009. Bilirubin levels in drai...

1. The unfertilized eggs of Fucus vesiculosus, in the dark, consume about 5.2 mm.(3) O(2) per hour per 10 mm.(3) eggs. 2. With an illumination of 100,000 foot candles in photosynthesis they liberate more than twice as much oxygen as they consume. 3. The actively swimming antherozoids or sperm of Fucus consume oxygen at a very high rate: 25.5 mm.(3) O(2) per hour per 10 mm.(3) antherozoids. 4. I...

Lipoprotein typing was carried out on 4385 apparently healthy male subjects at work in the Glasgow conurbation of the West of Scotland. Subjects werefasting and the investigations undertaken were cholesterol, triglyceride, lipoprotein paper electrophoresis, and preparative ultracentrifugation when necessary. 29*5 per cent of subjects were normal in terms of history, weight, blood pressure, elec...

Although temporomandibular-joint involvement by rheumatoid arthritis is well recognized, its incidence is unknown. Russel and Bayles (1941) estimated that the temporomandibular joints became involved in 50 per cent. of patients, Ragan (1949) 4 7 per cent., Markowitz and Gerry (1950) 8 *7 per cent., and Einaudi and Viara (1964) 29 3 per cent in 260 rheumatoid arthritics. These variations may be ...

Among 2,005 women attending a contraceptive clinic 9-3 per cent. were found to have gonorrhoea. When these women were classified according to the method of contraception used at the time of their initial visit to the clinic, the following prevalence of gonorrhoea was observed: oral contraceptives 11-5 per cent., intrauterine contraceptive devices 9-9 per cent., barrier methods (condom-diaphragm...