There were an estimated 644.9 million "encounters", or "visits", in the offices of "office-based" physicians in the United States during the period May 1973-April 1974. By definition, these were visits for the purpose of seeking or receiving care that involved a direct personal exchange between the patient and the physician or a member of his staff, Females accounted for three of every five vis...

THIS is the second retrospective survey of the work of the Mycological Diagnostic Service since its establishment in 1959. Its purpose is to review the isolation of dermatophytes (ringworm fungi) of both human (anthropophilic) and animal (zoophilic) origin in Northern Ireland over the period 1967 to 1973, and to compare the findings with previous reports for the province (Mackenzie and Rusk, 19...

(Z. Naturforsch. 28 a, 1543-1553 [1973] ; received 7 May 1973) Nonequilibrium alignment phenomena in gases of polyatomic molecules (Senftleben-Beenakker effect, flow birefringence) have been studied extensively during the last decade. Similar effects should also exist for atoms with nonzero electronic orbital angular momentum. The WaldmannSnider equation (considered as Boltzmann equation for re...