IN a large proportion of cases of tuberculosis of the urinary and genital system the sequence of events is as follows :-First the kidney is affected, then the ureter and bladder; later the vesicula, prostate, vas deferens, epididymis, and testis may be involved in the male subject. In the great majority of cases the bladder symptoms predominate, so that the case is often sent to the surgeon wit...

ECENTLY, considerabIe information has R been obtained on the behavior of liver homografts, by Moore et aI. [8] and in our own Iaboratory [IO,II]. The large and immunoIogicaIIy active Iiver homografts were rejected in roughIy the same time sequence as smaIIer and less com~lex tissues. In our studies, the manner of rejection differed from the usuaI situation in that widespread changes were evoked...

It has been known for more than 2000 years that some fish can induce painful, numbing sensations when handled. In the late 1600s, it was discovered that this sensation resulted from the production of strong electrical currents produced by the fish (Kellaway 1946). In On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859), Darwin paid special attention to difficulties with his theory, dev...

Leigh's disease is a rare progressive neurological disorder that is characterized light microscopically by focal spongy necrosis in the brain and electron microscopically by mitochondriopathy. We report an autopsy case of Leigh's disease that showed abnormalities in the liver, kidney and skeletal muscle as well as the central nervous system. The patient was an 18-month-old girl who has carried ...

Over a period of 33 years, it has become possible to successfully transplant individual intra-abdominal viscera or combinations of these organs. The consequences have been, first, new information about the metabolic interrelations that the visceral organs have in disease or health; second, the addition of several procedures to the treatment armamentarium of gastrointestinal diseases; and third,...