EIGHTY SUCCESSIVE CASES OF STACKE'S OPERATION.

A Short Analysis of Eighty-Nine Cases of Epilepsy

In a paper read before The National Association for the Study of Epilepsy Dr. Ernest Jones says (1) : " The customary concentration of attention on the more sensational aspects of epilepsy, namely, the fits, has, by furnishing a narrow conception of it, done much to retard our knowledge of the disease as a whole." Dr. Jones goes on to point out how a study of the physical and mental characteris...

A Study of Eighty-four Cases of Delayed Mustard Gas Keratitis Fitted with Contact Lenses.

Atrophy of the Heart: A Correlative Study of Eighty-Five Proved Cases

ATROPHY of the heart is defined as an acquired reduction in the size and mass of this organ. While hypertrophy has been the subject of considerable study and investigation, the entity of atrophy has been in the main overlooked and neglected. Rarely do modern textbooks on cardiology mention it, and then only to dismiss it with a few lines pointing to its rarity and lack of clinical significance....

Left ventricular abnormalities in prolapsed mitral leaflet syndrome. Review of eighty-seven cases.

Eighty-seven patients with proven mitral leaflet prolapse were studied emphasizing cardiodynamics and left ventricular asynergy. Significant associated features were female preponderance (83%), skeletal anomalies (pectus excavatum, straight back, scoliosis, narrow antero-posterior diameter of the chest), and anomalous coronary arteries (cork-screw patterns, short left main coronary artery, anom...

Eighty years of random networks

The 80 years since Zachariasen’s famous paper, 20 years before Stephen Elliott was born, on the random network theory of glass structure have seen remarkable progress in our understanding of the structure of glassy materials through the construction of models and comparison with experiment. In the early days, models were hand-built with plastic units and had free boundary conditions. Today, ver...