NEUROLOGICAL JOTTINGS.-II

Oriental Medicine—Stray Jottings

Miscellaneous Jottings from Daily Practice

2.?Treatment of fractured ribs. The usual practice in the Punjab hospitals and dispensaries is to apply a broad roller round the chest. I have seen sometimes great inconvenience to arise from the use of a bandage, pressing on both sides of the chest and limiting the free play of the lungs. In one case dyspnoea was very troublesome. Straps of sticking plaster applied on the whole of the injured ...

Ophthalmological Jottings from a Leave Diary

thesis in India, and as it is now becoming more and more common for Indians to want glass eyes, and as I personally have had great difficulties in getting patients well fitted, I determined to see how the expert dealt with the matter. To this end I visited Mr. Taylor of New Oxford Street on three or four occasions. To those who watch skilled glass blowing for the first time it appears a perfect...

Text is Jottings Plus Procedure (JoPP)

Allen Renear's excellent target paper describes a number of general positions on the question of what text is. I nd none of them satisfying. By my (confessedly idiosyncratic) lights, text is ultimately composed of jottings plus procedures for unpacking these jottings. Such a view marks an attempt to take seriously, via formalisms in use in the eld of Artiicial Intelligence, an interesting thoug...

Neurological Sequelae of Sepsis: II) Neuromuscular Weakness

Critical illness polyneuropathy (CIP) and critical illness myopathy (CIM) have been established as separate entities of muscular weakness in critically ill patients, although both may be associated to each other in some respects. Both are associated to systemic inflammatory response syndrome, sepsis, and severe sepsis. Major signs of nerve and muscle disturbances in critically ill patients are ...