Artificial, therapeutic pneumothorax was commonly used to treat tuberculosis (TB) prior to the development of antimycobacterial agents. Recent reports1-2 suggested that therapeutic pneumothorax is efficacious. In 1820, James Carson suggested therapeutic pneumothorax for TB,3 and Carlo Forlanini began to apply it in clinical practice in 1888.4 Therapeutic pneumothorax evolved from the idea that ...

This paper describes information-handling aspects of the TYCHO I analysis system (Clin, Chem. 27: 1807--1820, 1981), which analyzes two-dimensional electrophoresis gels, matches the individual protein spots with those in a reference pattern, and stores various information--including spot measurements, identifications, treatment profiles, set memberships, and comments--in a computerized database...

Skill, Judgement and Conduct for the First Generation of Neurosurgeons, 1900–1930 Delia Gavrus 361 ‘The Days of Brilliancy are Past’: Skill, Styles and the Changing Rules of Surgical Performance, ca. 1820–1920 Thomas Schlich 379 Neither Physicians Nor Surgeons: Whither Neuropathological Skill in Post-war England? Anna Kathryn Schoefert 404 Surgical Skills Beyond Scientific Management Nicholas W...

A new porcellanid crab, Lissoporcellana demani n. sp. is described based on material from the Beibu Bay in the northern South China Sea. The new species can be distinguished from other congeners by the shape of rostrum, form of fixed finger of smaller cheliped and armature of lateral margins of carapace. The poorly known species L. streptochiroides (Johnson, 1970), which resembles L. demani n. ...