and file many suits alleging inadequate medical care. (Inadequate care is cruel and unusual punishment thatviolates the Eighth Amendment to the US Constitution.) Inmates are manipulative and use the threat of suit to get the doctor to order controlled drugs and other things they want. It would have been impossible to function had I shook, quaked, and caved in at every threat. Although not empha...

Comprehensive assessments of the need for additional methane control capacity beyond ventilation often require both an empirical and theoretical approach for an adequate or timely control of increased methane emission levels. Thus, the prediction of methane emissions and optimization of methane control systems prior to starting a new mining operation will be a major improvement towards eliminat...

In the past twenty years evidence has accumulated that liquorice and related compounds accelerate the rate of healing of gastric ulcers. Powdered succus liquiritiae (Revers, 1948) and glycyrrhiza extract (Schulze, Franke, and Keller, 1954; Ferenbach, 1954; Ohrt, 1955) were shown to be beneficial in patients with gastric ulcer but adequately controlled clinical trials of liquorice extracts were ...

Underground longwall mining of coal causes large scale disturbance of the surrounding rock mass. The disturbance can increase the rock mass permeability through a reduction on the stress as well as formation of new fractures in the rock. Methane gas contained in the disturbed rock mass can migrate towards the low pressure mine workings and present an explosion hazard. This paper describes the a...

In a double blind endoscopically controlled study, 100 patients with gastric ulcers were treated with either ranitidine or ranitidine plus Caved-S. On single therapy, 58% of ulcers were healed at four weeks, 92% at eight weeks and 96% at 12 weeks. Combination therapy did not alter the healing rate, nor improve on the control of dyspeptic symptoms. No difference in healing rate was found between...