Background Patients with secondary pneumothoraces generally have serious comorbid disease and poor pulmonary function and require that treatment be individualized. Though interventional treatments such as tube thoracostomy and pleurodesis are to be selected first, some cases become obstinate. Even though VATS treatment is attempted ultimately, sometimes it turned out to be inadequate for stapli...

treatment we adopted was constitutional, a carefurregulation of diet, and the ordinary local applications of zinc ointment zinc powder, &c. Under it he improved considerably, and the disease disappeared on the face, ear, and legs, but the patches on the hands and arms were most obstinate. Boracic acid in ointment and lotion, carbolic acid, zinc ointment, solution of acetate of lead, nitrate of ...

A bargainer uses “take it or leave it” offers to signal that he is not willing to make further concessions (commitment threat) and that he will leave the bargaining table unless his demand is accepted (exit threat). This paper investigates the impacts of these threats on rational negotiators’ equilibrium shares and behaviors in a bilateral negotiation. The threats are credible because the negot...

of two cases, which proved fatal at the dispensary since I have had medical charge of the G-aro Hills district. I would premise that the disease occurs most frequently in the lower hills bordering on the plains, and on low marshy localities. It usually begins as an ordinary paroxysmal fever, tending, however, to the remittent type. The symptoms in the beginning are rarely violent, but from bein...

‎in this paper‎, ‎the notion of the radical of a filter in‎ ‎residuated lattices is defined and several characterizations of‎ ‎the radical of a filter are given‎. ‎we show that if f is a‎ ‎positive implicative filter (or obstinate filter)‎, ‎then‎ ‎rad(f)=f‎. ‎we proved the extension theorem for radical of filters in residuated lattices‎. ‎also‎, ‎we study the radical‎ ‎of filters in linearly o...

THE DEVELOPMENT of a successful surgical treatment for Hirschsprung's disease 11 and the establishment of a sound pathologic and etiologic basis 3 for the disease have been among the most gratifying events in Pediatric Surgery of the last decade. The result has been to render accurate diagnosis possible with precision. At the same time the knowledge that an effective surgical treatment is avail...

To the Editor, " Indian Medical Gazette." Sir,?I venture to send you a short note on the treatment of Dracunculas (guineaworm). I shall feel much obliged by your kindly publishing it in your widely circulated journal. It is from a very long time that the people of Dhar have been subject most frequently to Dracunculas, one of the obstinate and painful diseases. Nearly every house here has its me...