TRACHOMA persists as a major scourge in the causation of blindness in the Far East. Of its many complications and sequelae, entropion is undoubtedly the commonest. Apart from the cataract operation, which restores sight, an entropion operation is perhaps the most gratifying in the field of ophthalmology. The following is a report on 1,252 cases of entropion seen in the Ophthalmic Department, Ko...

A trial was conducted of Entonox for pain relief in minor, but painful, procedures which are conducted in wards, accident centres, and radiological units. The gas was self-administered by the patient using a demand apparatus. The administration was supervised by qualified nurses, specially trained in the properties of Entonox and the inhalational unit. The results confirm that the gas is safe i...

RNA export is the process by which RNAs are transported to the cytoplasm after synthesis, processing, and RNP assembly within the nucleus. The primary focus of this review is mRNA export with particular attention paid to the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Because there is rather little known about mRNA export in general and even less about yeast mRNA export, our thinking about the problem is i...

The veneration in which the name of Parry has long been held by us, was not diminished by the perusal of his late work, the Elements of Pathology ; and therefore we took up the present volume with anticipations of pleasure and profit. The nature of the subject, however, though at all times interesting, was so obscure, and hitherto unsatisfactorily explained, that we did not make up our minds fo...

Some traditional cardiomyopathies are well known. For instance peripartum cardiomyopathy. Complete recovery occurs in 50% percentage. Similarly tachycardiomyopathy can be caused by a heavy burden of ventricular ectopics, or by an incessant supraventricular tachycardia, or by repeated episodes of ventricular tachycardia. Ensite or Cartographic mapping and ablation of the arrhythmia can abolish t...

One of the most gratifying public health trends over the past 50 years in the United States has been the increasing rate of breastfeeding among newborn infants. In 1965, it was estimated that ,30% of neonates born in the United States were breastfed; by 2011, the percentage of infants who were at least partially breastfed had risen to 79%. A major focus of contemporary care during the birth hos...

one energetic surgeon, "His patients loved him and they died young." The two views of quality are clearly not identical: the methods for measuring them and the people best placed to judge them differ. Although Donabedian and others had recognised multidimensionality, the dimensions of quality I described were, I think, a genuine step forward in describing and explaining six facets of health car...

and shorter admissions with their treatment. Perhaps a resurrection of the use of Southey tubes would be even less costly and at least as safe, and would be affordable in third-world countries. It is gratifying to learn of this advance made possible by physiologic reasoning, instead of ever-more complicated and expensive technology. A final comment: there appears to be a tautology in the title ...

Let my first words as a member of El Colegio Nacional (ECN) be a vehicle for expressing the most gratifying of feelings: gratitude. I would like to thank my, now, colleagues who found sufficient merit in me to elect me as a member of this eminent institution. It is an honor that allows me to continue to nourish the roots that bind me to this country I love so much and where I have spent the gre...

The scalp provides a relatively limited amount of excess tissue that can be used in reconstructing significant scalp defects, which arise most often from oncologic resection or traumatic loss. Scalp reconstruction encompasses a broad spectrum of flaps, grafts, and techniques that should be readily available to the facial plastic surgeon treating this patient population. Meticulous attention to ...