In the November (1872) number of the Indian Medical Gazette I published my first series of experiments oil artificial respirution in snake-poisoning, and the results I considered unfavourable. Judging, however, from the experiments I have since made, I am led to believe that the unsatisfactory results were due more particularly to faulty artificial respiration. It will be observed by the follow...

Developments in medical technology and medical science have revolutionised modern medical practice of the past two decades and have created novel ethical and legal dilemmas for medical practitioners. This paper will discuss one of the most contentious legal issues associated with medically indicated withdrawal of life sustaining treatment from incompetent patients, where such discontinuance wil...

We report here a case of drug-induced acute pancreatitis proved by elimination and single, low dose challenge test in a child with Crohn disease. A 14-year-old boy with moderate/severe Crohn disease was admitted due to high fever and severe epigastric pain during administration of mesalazine and azathioprine. Blood test and abdominal ultrasonography revealed acute pancreatitis. After discontinu...

The main drawbacks of handheld devices (small storage space, small size of the display screen, discontinuance of the connection to the WLAN, etc.) are often incompatible with the need of querying and browsing information extracted from the enormous amount of data which are accessible through the network. In this application scenario, the issues of compression and summarization of data have a le...

The aim of this article was to report a case of toe nails disorder associated with metformin use in an elderly patient with type 2 diabetes. Two years ago, after receiving metformin 0.5 g three times daily for 6 months, a 60-year-old Chinese man found his ten toe nails gradually thickened and yellowed (especially two thumbs). The symptoms improved and recovered after metformin discontinuance. H...

Prednisone was shown to induce hyperglycemia in dogs submitted to total pancreatectomy and pancreatic islet autotransplantation. The hyperglycemia caused by a 10-day course of prednisone, 1 mg/kg/day, starting on the day of operation was reversible within 1 week after steroid discontinuance. Three weeks after prednisone was stopped, there was no detectable adverse effect on glucose homeostasis ...

An 8-month-old child with an immunodeficiency disorder characterized by abnormal lymphocyte function and by low IgG and IgA levels had combined liver and small bowel transplantation under tacrolimus and steroid immunosuppression for the treatment of short gut syndrome and hepatic cirrhosis. The patient developed an early postoperative episode of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, and a subsequent ...

Much of the recent literature on reasons is focused on a common range of issues, concerning, for example, the relation between reasons and motivation, desires, and values, the issue of internalism versus externalism in the theory of reasons, or the objectivity or reasons. This paper is concerned with a different, and orthogonal, set of questions: What are reasons, and how do they support action...

Background and Purpose—Stroke is an important contributor to maternal morbidity and mortality, but there are no recent data on trends in pregnancy-related hospitalizations that have involved a stroke. This report describes stroke hospitalizations for women in the antenatal, delivery, and postpartum periods from 1994 to 1995 to 2006 to 2007 and analyzes the changes in these hospitalizations over...