Supplementary Note on Boracic Acid

On the Treatment of Ringworm and Other Forms of Skin Disease by Boracic Acid

By Surgeon-Mnjor G. A. Watson, 19th Bengal Lancers. Having lately employed with very great success borncic acid as an external application in the treatment of the Dcrmatophyta, or diseases of the skin dependent upon a vegetable parasite, I am desirous of bringing the subject to the notice of the profession in India. I was induced to try this remedy from seeing it so largely employed as an antis...

Supplementary Issue

Corrections and supplementary note to "Information-theoretic distortion measures"

In the above paper [l], several notational errors should be corrected. The energy E,, i = t , r defined in (2), when used in (6) and In addition, the following note will help clarify the above paper. The distortion measures defined in (3), (4), and (5) are " marginal " distances (distortions). The property of the marginal distortions is explained in more detail in the following: consider the es...

Preliminary Note on the Structure of Ascorbic Acid (vitamin C).

in each case varied during the succeeding days and the general attitude varied from extreme lassitude and drowsiness on the one hand to hyperesthesia and clonic spasms on the other. The height of the clinical reaction occurred on the 7th to 9th days, retrogressing to normalcy on the 14th day with the animals remaining normal on the 20th day. Using a very active sample of the same virus, White L...

A Note on the Production of Acid by Pneumococci

1. Actively growing pneumococci produce acid at such a rate that change in the pH of the medium parallels change in rate of growth. 2. The death of the pneumococci is not followed by change in the reaction. 3. Acidification during growth in beef infusion media proceeds until a pH of about 7 is reached. At this point growth stops. The increase in hydrogen ion concentration is not the only origin...