In an occupational environment every employee has to accept a role which she or he is obliged to execute depending on primarily objective criteria like the affiliation of an enterprise to a certain type, sector and life cycle. There is only little scope left for subjective preferences and resentments. The pragmatic research objective is to design frameworks to identify the information requireme...

anti-choleraic inoculation of tea-garden coolies. M. Haffkine said that he was asked in 1894 by Surgeon-Colonel Stephen to introduce the system of inoculation into tea-growing districts in Assam. He spent nearly a year over the work, until he was obliged to leave India onaccount of broken health. During this time 11,665 inoculations were performed in 43 gardens,as well as amongst the labour for...

It is pointed out that there are great advantages in using single cells instead of tissues in the study of bioelectrical phenomena. Certain bioelectrical phenomena are discussed in relation to the structure of protoplasm. Under certain circumstances measurements of potential differences may enable us to determine what ions enter the protoplasm. Under suitable conditions we are able to ascertain...

be entitled to consideration, oftentimes irrespective of temperament; and that peculiarity of hereditary disposition termed atavism, in which a morbid tendency disappears in one generation to reappear in the next, should not be forgotten. Unfortunately, many people attempt to conceal family weaknesses of the kind, and the medical man is often obliged to form a judgment from equivocating answers...

purpurea in small-pox. The specimens of the plant which accompanied the communication were submitted to me for trial at the Small-pox Hospital, the root being the part of the plant particularly recommended for use. The public generally and the profession ought to feel very much obliged to Mr. Miles for the great trouble he took in bringing the subject before them. And although I shall not, unfo...

During the last decade, GSM technology (and more recently GPRS and UMTS) have made an impressive entry into a world where fixed telephony dominated the telecommunications sector. Established and new providers of these technologies used the same economic model as the fixed-line providers. An end user was obliged to obtain a subscription from a particular provider who also owned the network. Roam...

In our last issue we announced the death, in London, at the age of 48 years, caused by congestion of the lungs, of Dr. Chuckerbutty, and we now proceed to redeem our promise of placing on record a short sketch of his life and career. It appears from a narrative published in the Indian Mirror that Soorjee Coomar Chuckerbutty lost both his parents at the age of six years, and was then obliged to ...

Previous history.?The patient and his relatives were preparing some <jur (treacle) and accidentally dropped some of the boiling stuff inside the ear about a month before his admission, and scalded it badly. Me had violent inflammation accompanied with great pain and profuse discharge from the ear. The pain and the discharge went on increasing till he was obliged to seek admission into the hospi...

that in some parts of India cases occur, I shall be much obliged if you will insert tho following: series of questions in an yearly issue : 1. Has it been noticed in your district for long and, if so, does it occur at any particular seasons ? 2. What relation does its incidence bear to the common malarial fevers ? Do these present any unusual symptoms or exhibit any increase in virulence at the...