PERSPECTIVES IN BIOCHEMISTRY: Thirty-one essays presented to Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins by past and present members of his laboratory. Edited by Joseph Needham and David E. Green. Cambridge University Press, 1937. viii + 361 pp. $4.75. One of the chief difficulties that confronts the individual desirous of acquainting himself with the recent advances in biochemistry is the complexity of the ...

always voice his unhappy or distressing thoughts, and it is often most difficult to recognise the way he is tending, or having recognised it to induce him to seek the help and advice that would save him. And even when his condition has been realised and the man himself persuaded to have treatment, the difficulties in the ^ay of obtaining it for him are often insuperable. Outside of London and a...

so rarely met witH that a description of the following case is not without interest. AEuropean, aged 38, was admitted on the 4th February, 1929, with paresis of the left arm and leg. His previous history showed that he contracted syphilis in 1915, for which he was treated with a full course of murcury and galvarsan. In 1919 his Wasserman reaction was still positive and he had a further course j...

In the present state of medical science, this subject is no doubt an obscure one, but it is highly interesting to the general pathologist and the scientist as well. Sir Joseph Fayrer, in his ? Dissertation on Elephantiasis of the Scrotum, has made a few remarks on the probable relation between lunar influence and the progress of elephantoid disease; but evidently from paucity of facts, he faile...

The AGO Kommission Ovar already published a statement in 2013, warning about the uncritical use of hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) outside controlled studies. This statement has now been updated after the most recent literature was reviewed by AGO Kommission Ovar, the AGO Study Group, NOGGO, AGO Austria and AGO Switzerland. The authors conclude that HIPEC remains experimental....

A second individual next went down the shaft of the well with a rope to try and rescue the boy, but was suffocated and ropped into the water. A third then went down, dangled his legs in the water and tried to grasp the two still living bodies between his knees. He suddenly felt suffocated, however, and shouted to be drawn up. This man recovered; he states that he thinks the two were still livin...