A previously healthy 5-weekold boy who was born at term is brought to the emergency department. His mother reports that she had placed him on his side with a support pillow after breast-feeding him before she went to take a shower. Upon returning to check on him, she found him in prone position, with his nose and mouth in the mattress, “struggling” to breathe; his face was red. The mother thoug...

years ago. He gave a history of two attacks of what appeared to me to be appendicitis, though the pain was all on the left side. The abdomen appeared rather small, but I thought it would contain the contents of the sac when reduced. I admitted him to my nursing home and gave him careful preparation for three days. On December 15th, I gave him an injection of i gr. morphia and hyoscine gr. ^ + a...

I have been married for 4 years now and my husband is very heavy into pornography. He masturbates on a daily basis and doesn't care to have sex with me. I have talked to him about it and he said that it's an addiction. I told him that it hurts me deeply and I have been tempted to cheat on him. In other words, find someone else. Anyway, what do you suggest? I have tried to interest him more by u...

OBJECTIVE To describe the behavior of mortality in Mexico through four indicators from 1990 to 2012. MATERIAL AND METHODS The official mortality and population records of Mexico were used. RESULTS An advance was achieved for children under five years of age, with a decrease in mortality, although there was an increase in the years of potential life lost (YPLL) from 2008 for this age group. ...

Dr. W. O. Spence: This was a man aged 62 years whose past medical history, al' though not particularly relevant, was rather unusual. For many years he had cofl\" plained of headaches and of attacks of pain and exquisite tenderness along the le* costal margin which were only relieved by lying on the floor. He had been seen by many doctors and was regarded either as a neurasthenic or possibly as ...

Bill, a 35-year-old journalist working for a local radio station, was sent to report from the scene of a bomb attack that resulted in several fatalities. What he witnessed at the scene distressed him greatly. Immediately afterward, he began repeatedly to reexperience what had happened, leading him to avoid either discussing or thinking about it. He continued to work, but he lost interest in thi...

A Hindu Brahmin, pet. GO, by profession a cook, lias been suffering from Inguinal hernia for the last 10 or 12 years. All along the hernia was reducible, and the man did not require any surgical interference whatever, save and except he was advised to use the truss constantly. But he did not act up to it strictly, as it caused some inconvenience. On the afternoon of the 28th ultimo the man went...

Carlos Chagas discovered the disease, which has been named after him (Chagas disease), in 1909. He was indicated to the Nobel Prize in 1912 and in 1921, but never won the Nobel Prize. The non-award of the prize in 1921 strengthened Chagas detractors in Brazil to the point that the disease fallen into oblivion after Chagas’ death in 1934. The socioeconomic importance of this new disease was only...

search for the cup of jamshid from me, years my heart made. and for what it possessed, from a stranger, entreaty made. a jewel that is beyond the shell of existence and of time, from those lost on the shore of the sea, search it made. last night, i took my difficulty to the pir of the magians. who, by strengthening of sight, the solving of sublety made. him, happy, laughing, wine-goblet in hand...

Mr L was a 59-year-old man with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer. He was brought to the hospital for progressive lower extremity weakness and gait instability that had developed over several weeks and worsened in the preceding 2 or 3 days. His partner, Ms P, was having difficulty caring for him at home because Mr L continually fell when attempting to get out of bed on his own. She found th...