jHauwolfia serpentina has been known as a medicinal plant in India for a long time but its use in the treatment of hypertension is of comparatively recent origin. The dried root contains 1 per cent of total alkaloids besides resin, starch, potassium carbonate, phosphate, silicate and traces of iron and manganese (Sen and Bose, 1931). Siddiqui and Siddiqui (1931) found two groups of alkaloids an...

OBJECTIVE Compare the dermatoscopy vascular features of well differentiated with non-well differentiated squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). DESIGN A prospective study of 294 consecutive cases of histopathologically confirmed invasive SCC compared the dermatoscopic vascular features of well to combined moderate and poorly differentiated tumors. These features were recorded live directly from the p...

Abstract Magnesium chloride hexahydrate crystal (MgCl 2 .6H O) is an intermediate product used to obtain Mg metal from its ores. This work aims produce purified MgCl O crystals natural Egyptian serpentine. Serpentine samples were collected the Eastern Desert in Egypt and prepared for leaching with HCl solutions. Reaction temperature (°C), time (h), solid/liquid ratio (g/mL), acid concentration ...

morning of the 13th November I was hurriedly called in to see him. He had after much coughing and sneezing evacuated a worm-like creature from his nose, and this had been thrown on the floor, where it looked like a small mass of muco-purulent nasal secretion with a streak of blood along it. In due course however it uncoiled itself to a length of about one inch and began to move very slowly. At ...

A long-term hemodialysis patient with a giant intracranial vascular channel, which has been called a giant serpentine aneurysm, is presented. A 50-year-old man with an eight-year history of hemodialysis treatment was admitted because of headache, nausea and double vision. Computed tomographic scans and nuclear magnetic resonance revealed intracranial abnormal shadow. The left vertebral arteriog...