LYDIE BOULLE, M.D. GRMEK, CATHERINE LUPOVICI, and JANINE SAMIONCONTET, Laennec. Catalogue des manuscrits scientifiques, Paris, Masson, 1982, 4to, pp. vi, 316, Fr. 200.00. The scientific manuscripts of Laennec, among them such important unpublished items as his course in the College de France embracing all of medicine, or a book on pathological anatomy, are now distributed in five libraries in t...

During the middle and later part of the last century thousands of infants in this country and on the continent died annually as a result of umbilical infection. Two types were recognized: (a) Moist spreading gangrene of the umbilicus (hospital gangrene) when children died of toxaemia, septicaemia, peritonitis and occasionally rupture of the abdominal wall. (b) Erysipelas of the umbilicus, also ...

In the first description of the characteristic symptoms following severe physical trauma, Ambroise Pare in 1575 mentioned that the features of this condition are: flaccid, atonic musculature, cold sweat, feeble, quick pulse, unresponsiveness, and general indifference. Defects in nervous function are evidentfrom this description. In 1889, Crile (Crile and Lower, 1899) suggested from experimental...

In rare anomalies personal experience of a few patients can lead to biased or incorrect impressions unless analysis of a larger series is applied as a corrective. The result should be a better appreciation of the difficulties to be met and overcome in the future. A congenital hernia into the base of the umbilical cord is known as an exomphalos in British usage and an omphalocele in American usa...

Previous photolabeling and limited proteolysis studies suggested that one of the four basic residues (Arg-141) of the N-terminal cytoplasmic loop connecting helices IV and V (loop 4-5) of the melibiose permease (MelB) from Escherichia coli has a potential role in its symport function (Ambroise, Y., Leblanc, G., and Rousseau, B. (2000) Biochemistry 39, 1338-1345). A mutagenesis study of Arg-141 ...

LYDIE BOULLE, M.D. GRMEK, CATHERINE LUPOVICI, and JANINE SAMIONCONTET, Laennec. Catalogue des manuscrits scientifiques, Paris, Masson, 1982, 4to, pp. vi, 316, Fr. 200.00. The scientific manuscripts of Laennec, among them such important unpublished items as his course in the College de France embracing all of medicine, or a book on pathological anatomy, are now distributed in five libraries in t...

The ‘big bang’ of our mid-century revolution in thoracic surgery was the emergence of a realistic cardiac surgery. Having repeatedly renounced writing another chronological history, the present chronicle is meant to be a retrospective appraisal of the pioneers and events that I actually met and witnessed. The reader can easily refer to excellent historical descriptions for detailed knowledge of...

Urology has long been firmly established as a distinct subspecialty in the field of surgery. Furthermore, there are now distinct ‘super-subspecialties’, such as reconstructive urology, renal transplantation, endourology, urooncology and paediatric urology. All these ‘super subspecialties’ are changing very rapidly. More than a century ago urology constituted a small component of surgery and was...

An absorbable haemostatic is a material which acts as a haemostat but is subsequently itself absorbed in the tissues, leaving no trace. Such a material is of use in certain cases of haemorrhage which it is impossible or impractical to control by more direct methods. Since haemostasis was at all times one of the primary aims of surgery, it is obvious that the search for such materials is of long...

The 14 papers in this research topic were solicited primarily from attendees to the two most important hands-on workshops in neuromorphic engineering: the Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering Workshop (www.ine-web.org) and the Capo Caccia Cognitive Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop (capocaccia.ethz. ch). The papers show the results of feasibility studies of new concepts, as well as neur...