Chronic atelectasis and pneumonia of the middle lobe have been described as a clinical syndrome, of which the essential pathological feature is an obstruction of the middle lobe bronchus. The cause of obstruction may be intraluminal or extraluminal, specific causes such as tumour or active tuberculosis not included. Graham, Burford, and Mayer (1948) reported 12 cases in which the syndrome resul...

UNLABELLED When thyroid tissues exhibited concentrations of therapeutic (131)I that appeared to be less than that predicted by data from the preceding diagnostic (131)I, the phenomenon was called stunning. We hypothesized that stunning arose from the early effects of the therapeutic dose of (131)I and that the initial uptake of (131)I, observed within the first day, was not impaired by the diag...

a snake, about hnlf-an-hour previously. The Native Doctor of the E. B. R. Co. had arrived before me, and applied an Esrnareh's elastic band as a ligature, and had incised, what he believed to be, the fang punctures. On arrival I found the man lying on a maichan, his right arm, which had been ligatured above the elbow, was tense and bleeding at the incised part. He was apparently drowsy and only...

EDITORIAL SYNOPSIS Observations are described in an 8-year-old boy, the fifth case to be recognized of the syndrome previously known as 'congenital alkalosis with diarrhoea'. The condition appears to result from an abnormal handling of chloride ion in the alimentary tract; the pathognomic biochemical features are an invariably high faecal concentration of chloride and liquid stools which consis...

The maximum allowable biological concentration of a toxic substance is the highest concentration which can be found in a biological medium without damage to health. The biological materials rna y be examined for: (a) the toxic substance itself; (b) a product of the metabolism of the toxic substance in the body; (c) a substance derived from the physiopathological activity of the toxic substance;...

When a patient comes to us with the history of having swallowed a foreign body, we naturally take it for granted that the body has passed into the food passage; and frequently it does so. In some cases, however, it does not get into the alimentary tract at all but passes into the other neighbouring passage, viz., the aii' passage?and most often into the right bronchus?the shorter and wider of t...