Background. The pathogenesis of sodium and water accumulation in chronic constrictive pericarditis is not well understood and may differ from that in patients with chronic congestive heart failure due to myocardial disease. This study was undertaken to investigate some of the mechanisms. Methods and Results. Using standard techniques, the hemodynamics, water and electrolyte spaces, renal functi...

From the beginning of the genre, women writers have made a major contribution to the development of industrial writing. Although prevented from gaining first-hand experience of the coalface, Welsh women writers were amongst the first to try to fictionalize those heavy industries-coal and metal in the south, and slate in the north-which dominated the lives of the majority of the late nineteenth-...

abstract An extensive spectrum of light non-strange q ¯ q states up to a mass of 2400 MeV has emerged from Crystal Barrel and PS172 data on ¯ pp → Resonance → A + B in 17 final states. These data are reviewed with detailed comments on the status of each resonance. For I = 0, C = +1, the spectrum is complete and very secure. Six 'extra' states are identified. Four of them have I = 0, C = +1 and ...

On October IS, 1959, Leopold Fejér died in Budapest, Hungary. For the past half century Fejér was a central figure of the international mathematical community and a leading personality of his native country. He had many pupils scattered all over the world and many friends and admirers in all countries where mathematics is at home. His profound influence was due not only to his deep and fundamen...

Background Tomaso Casoni (Figure 1A &1B) earned his fame by the test named after him [1]. Casoni was first to describe a test for immediate allergic reaction to hydatid fluid injected into the skin (Figure 2). This was in a time when hydatid disease caused by infection by Echinococcus granlulosus was endemic in Europe, Africa and the Middle East in addition to many other parts of the world. The...

PURPOSE During the past decade the laryngeal mask airway (LMA) has dominated literature about airways for use during general anaesthesia. The LMA addresses clearly defined clinical objectives. The purpose of this study is to determine whether those objectives were described collectively with reference to earlier airway designs. METHODS The anaesthesia sections of Index Medicus 1880-1995 were ...

Though evidence is slight that books ever helped spread the epidemics of s mallpox, tub erculosis, and scarlet fever that raged in American and European cities at the turn of the century, fear of such a possibility led public libraries to adopt extraordinary measures in efforts to decontaminate books that had circulated to infected borrowers. In many cases library officials elected to destroy s...

Tinnitus research has acquired steady interest in the last six decades. A survey of PubMed under “tinnitus” listed a total of 7489 entries by May 6, 2011, covering clinical notes, management, and basic research. Figure 1.1 shows the number of annual entries. Before 1950, only 67 papers were listed, 2 of which dated back from 1880 (Hemming, 1880 ; Sexton, 1880 ) . Since 1950, the number of tinni...