The little pamphlet before us, is our author's Third Essay on the Treatment of Skin Diseases, and, judging by the information afforded in each, we hope Dr. Squire will continue the series. They are well written, the therapeutical remedies or surgical appliances are well described, aud what is more essential, Dr. Squire particularly dwells upon those little matters or points, a neglect of which ...

Dosimetry for targeted radionuclide therapy is a relatively young field. Although initial work can be traced back to the late 1940s (1), the MIRD Committee formalism that forms the foundation for most current approaches was published in the mid 1970s (2), and the drive for improved dosimetry to meet the requirements of targeted radionuclide therapy did not begin until the 1980s. During this per...

Not half a century ago, cardiovascular and coronary heart disease were viewed both by the clinical practice community and the general public as a male problem. Witness a 1960s American Heart Association conference on women and cardiovascular disease titled “How Can I Help My Husband Cope with Heart Disease?” and the initial introduction of the American Heart Association’s Prudent Diet in a publ...

The reliability of radiation dose estimates in internal radionuclide therapy is directly related to the accuracy of activity estimates obtained at each imaging time point. The recently published MIRD pamphlet no. 23 provided a general overview of quantitative SPECT imaging for dosimetry. The present document is the first in a series of isotope-specific guidelines that will follow MIRD 23 and fo...

In the 21st century use of computers increased tremendously. Computer plays a valuable role in increasing efficiency and accuracy several works. But excessive has brought risks, especially eye diseases. Children are not exception to context. They have nature adopting things what they see. Therefore kids show equal interest TV computers. Hence present scenario children equally being affected wit...

Heller. Department of Management Studies, The Polytechnic, Regent Street, W.l. 75 pp. 5s. In these columns I have carped often enough at the rising price of slight and uninspiring books : it is then a pleasure to welcome this pamphlet as exceedingly good value for money to anyone interested in management in industry. It consists of four lectures given to the Polytechnic Department of Management...

Our Bodies, Ourselves, a succession to a pamphlet of resources pulled from co-ops of women in and around Boston, Massachusetts, was published in New York in 1973 by Simon and Schuster. Retitled from the original Women and Their Bodies, Our Bodies, Ourselves was an effort by a group of educated, middle class women to reinforce women's ownership of their bodies. There have been eight editions of ...

ROBERT WALPOLE, later Earl of Orford, was born in 1676t in East Anglia, where urinary stone was common, and died in 1745 with this condition. The controversy about his death has been described by Jarvis,' who was particularly concerned with the pamphlet war, involving physicians, surgeons, and literary men, which followed it. Viseltear2 has more recently written an account of Walpole's last ill...

A Modest Proposal is a representative work of Jonathan Swift. Many critics think it a greatest satirical work ever written. Jonathan Swift has always been considered a political writer and poet. His plain style can also been seen in A Modest Proposal but it's not the main concern of this thesis. This thesis mainly focuses on some artistic features of the famous pamphlet. One characteristic of t...

This pamphlet is intended for the scientist who is considering using Spherical Harmonics for some application. It is designed to introduce the Spherical Harmonics from a theoretical perspective and then discuss those practical issues necessary for their use in applications. I expect great variability in the backgrounds of the readers. In order to be informative to those who know less, without i...