Chemotherapy of Venereal Diseases: Its Uses and Abuses

Chemotherapy of venereal diseases: its uses and abuses.

For centuries the man of medicine practised the relief of symptoms, his power to influence the processes of disease being strictly limited; the art of medicine was largely confined to providing circumstances favourable for the vis medicatrix naturae to function to the best advantage. When, however, Pasteur, Lister, and Koch turned the spot-light of science on the bacterial battlefield, knowledg...

Chemotherapy and the venereal diseases.

Nebulisers: uses and abuses.

Jet nebulisers are used to deliver a wide range of drugs as aerosols. The British National Formullarv lists not only six bronchodilator solutions in doses up to 10 mg (available in single dose ampoules, multidose vials, or both), but also one corticosteroid, one prophylactic agent (sodium cromoglycate), and two mucolytics as being suitable for nebulisation.' In addition, nebulisers have been us...

Uses and abuses of macropinocytosis.

Macropinocytosis is a means by which eukaryotic cells ingest extracellular liquid and dissolved molecules. It is widely conserved amongst cells that can take on amoeboid form and, therefore, appears to be an ancient feature that can be traced back to an early stage of evolution. Recent advances have highlighted how this endocytic process can be subverted during pathology - certain cancer cells ...

Noether’s Theorem: Uses and Abuses

4 Caveat Emptor 7 4.1 Lagrangian Wanted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.2 Not Quite a Conservation Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.3 Inequivalent Lagrangians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.4 Other Conservation Laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4.4.1 Dynamical Conservations Laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4.4.2 Solitons . . . . . . ....