ANOTHER TONSIL-FORCEPS; ONE OF THE OPERATIVE DIFFICULTIES REMOVED

A Case of Stone in the Bladder Removed by Midwifery Forceps

as usually happens, and on palpating the bladder it felt a globular hard mass suggesting a tumour of the bladder as well as a stone Inside: to be sure of this I again sounded the bladder and confirmed the presence of a big hard stone. The bladder incision was now enlarged and a big stone occupying the whole of the bladder was detected. The stone could neither be caught in the lithotomy forceps ...

Another one bites the dust…

Last week, I received one of those dreaded annual emails. That’s right, the now almost routine one asking faculty to voice their support, or lack thereof, for the ever-declining number of hard copy journals still being purchased by the library. As an associate professor of public health recently promoted to chair of the department, I appreciate their position, of course. The dominance and ease ...

Another One Bites the Dust

Post operative ileus (POI): another perspective.

Merritt and Blikslager (2008) present an excellent challenge to re-examine attitudes towards definition and diagnosis of post operative ileus (POI) in horses. An intriguing aspect of this complex disease is that diagnosis is made largely on the basis of reflux through a nasogastric tube. This is tantamount to diagnosing navicular disease on the observation of a forelimb lameness or pneumonia be...

Give Me Another One!

We investigate the complexity of an optimization problem in Boolean propositional logic related to information theory: Given a conjunctive formula over a set of relations, find a satisfying assignment with minimal Hamming distance to a given assignment that satisfies the formula (NearestOtherSolution, NOSol). We present a complete classification with respect to the relations admitted in the for...