Streptococcus pneumoniaemajor cause of infection in children causes serious therapeutic difficulties, because of the developed multiresistance. Extended-spectrum cephalosporins, used in empirical therapy are a therapeutic option. Recent emergence of Ceftriaxone (CRO) and Cefotaxime (CTX) resistant strains with regional differences in frequency requires their detection by quantitative determinat...

The aim of study was the investigation of particularities of the cardiovascular risk factors in elderly compared with middle-aged patients. The subjects were divided into two groups: group A consisting of 61 patients aged ≥ 65 years old and group B consisting of 58 patients aged between 50 and 64 years old. The subjects were admitted in our Department for the following cardiovascular diseases: ...

By Sip Arthur Newsholme, K.C.B., M.D., F.R.C.P. London: Bail I ft re, Tindall and Cox, 1927. Pp. xv Plus 226, with 6 plates. Price, 11s. 6d. net. The value of the study of history and historical ^PPreciation in political and national matters has long been recognised; it is but lately however that the history ?f rnedicine has received its proper place in the medical ^rriculmn, Many leading schoo...

author deemed it advisable to present (on page 973) an elaborate table of conversion factors, such as, acres to square meters, barrels to liters, grams to grains, etc. Some idea of the extent of coverage of scientific literature can be gained from the fact that thirty-one pages of small type, two columns to a page, are required just for the author index. From all of this it must be evident that...

EVERYONE wvill agree that the outlook in the practice of medicine has undergone a markedl change since the coming into operation of the Health Services Act on the 5th Julv of this vear (1948). This date will be recorde(d in history as an eventful one, for, in it, the story of the evolution of medicine has opened a new chapter. I shall not attempt to express an opinion on the merits or demerits ...

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