Contributions to therapeutics

Contributions of Microdialysis to New Alternative Therapeutics for Hepatic Encephalopathy

Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is a common complication of cirrhosis, of largely reversible impairment of brain function occurring in patients with acute or chronic liver failure or when the liver is bypassed by portosystemic shunts. The mechanisms causing this brain dysfunction are still largely unclear. The need to avoid complications caused by late diagnosis has attracted interest to understand...

martin kirschner’s contributions to surgery and anesthesiology

martin kirschner (1879-1942), versatile german surgeon who had his scientific research and academic interests addressed topics which are covered by several specialities such as general surgery, orthopaedic surgery, neurosurgery, anesthesiology and plastic surgery. he also was the editor of five medical journals and autjor of 249 articles and eight textbooks. his greatest and lasting contributio...

Aids to Rational Therapeutics

group are diseases requiring the same sort of treatment. A glance at the table of contents will show how this is done : the catarrhal group ; the serous effusion group (pleurisy, pericarditis, etc.) ; the calcium insufficiency group (purpura, chilblains, rickets, cretinism) ; the ansemic group (anaemia, chlorosis, Banti's disease, leukaemia) ; the vitamine insufficiency group (scurvy, beri-beri...

A Guide to Therapeutics

years. bome brief rules for prescribing are laid down, and the combination of drugs is ably dilated upon. In the case of diuretics three or four members of this group will often act when one produces little effect. In rheumatic fever several alkaline remedies appear to act better together than when one member of the group is only administered. The unpleasant symptoms of lodism are often mitigat...

A Guide to Therapeutics