I PRoPose to consider this subject especially from the ,point of view of country practice. It is one of those questions which is most prominent at the present time, for the all-sufficient reason that upon it turns in many cases the life or death of the patient. If any one should ask why such cases come now so frequently into question, I have no doubt as to the answer-it is simply this, that in ...

Background. Pulmonary embolism is a common and potentially lethal condition. Most patients who die from massive pulmonary embolism do so within the first few hours of the event. The clinical manifestations of pulmonary embolism are nonspecific, which makes the diagnosis difficult. Case Report. We present a case of massive pulmonary embolism presenting as an acute surgical abdomen that underwent...

The Drosophila pupal abdomen is an established model system for the study of epithelial morphogenesis and the development of sexually dimorphic morphologies. During pupation, which spans approximately 96 hours (at 25 °C), proliferating populations of imaginal cells replace the larval epidermis to generate the adult abdominal segments. These imaginal cells, born during embryogenesis, exist as la...

Sill,?I shall feel highly obliged if you publish the following ease in your popular Gazette. . . , . 1. Busappa Nugappa of Chickerur was admitted into tnis dispensary with the following injuries on his body wound on the left side of his trunk between the Kith anulitn libs about 2 inches long and placed transversely. Through this wound a portion of small intestines about the size of a lemon frui...

A cow is presented to you for colic. At the rectal examination, you palpate tension bands. It’s midnight, the cow is nervous and she wants to lie down constantly. She is 7 month old pregnant. What do you do? Treat her with laxative, a subQ calcium and ketoprofen? Or you open her up on the right side standing to find that she has a volvulus and the bowel are falling out of the abdomen while she ...