A Practical Primer on Prion Pathology

A prion primer.

By biological and medical criteria, prions are infectious agents; however, many of their properties differ profoundly from those of conventional microbes. Prions are "encoded" by alterations in protein conformation rather than in nucleic acid or amino acid sequence. New epidemic prion diseases (bovine spongiform encephalopathy and new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease) have recently emerged und...

A practical Primer for Neurosurgery

The amount of information in the field of neurosurgery can be overwhelming. The following materials have been prepared for use as guidelines. While this may not be all-encompassing, it provides good guidelines and a foundation for further learning. XIII. Inflammatory disorders (multiple sclerosis, transverse myelopathy – learned in neurology rotation) XIV. Degenerative diseases (brain: dementia...

Heat Illness - A Practical Primer.

Heat stroke is one of the top three causes of death for athletes. Vigilance is required to prevent these illnesses and when faced with an individual who is suffering an exertional heat stroke, the goal is to aggressively cool the patient to 102°F within 30 minutes to optimize survival. The elderly are also at risk for heat illness and physicians caring for these patients should discuss preventi...

Practical Pathology

Practical Histology and Pathology

In this third edition of his practical little handbook, Dr. Gibbes has introduced a quantity of new matter and subjected the previous edition to revision. The chapters entitled " On Bacteria " and " On Staining Bacteria " consist merely of a few isolated extracts on the subject from certain journals, when a well-digested summary would be much more acceptable. Special manuals on Bacteriology are...