THE VARIED interests of the Venetian physician Nicolo Massa (d. 1569) found expression in a range of publications on subjects which included anatomy, syphilis, plague and other pestilential fevers, venesection, and logic. Successful as a writer, he was also renowned as a practitioner and as a teacher, though he never held a university chair. He combined a shrewd common sense and an eye to busin...

OBJECTIVE To prospectively monitor inflammatory activity over a prolonged period in a cohort of Turkish patients with FMF, their healthy relatives and healthy controls and to relate this to their MEFV genotypes. METHODS 43 patients with FMF and 75 of their asymptomatic relatives underwent fortnightly assessments and venesection for measurement of CRP and SAA over 5 months. 50 unrelated health...

Did Johnson possess real medical learning and understanding or merely a standard smattering of information? The issue has been much debated. Wiltshire persuasively argues the former. He shows, especially by examination of Johnson's correspondence, that he possessed a clear grasp of Boerhaavian iatromechanism. Johnson's considerable faith in venesection followed from such physiological principle...

National Institute of Blood Disease and Bone Marrow Transplantation Karachi, Pakistan *Corresponding Author’s Email: [email protected] Tel.: +923009370577 A retrospective analysis of 5 years data of myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN) other than chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) was done. All the cases were diagnosed and classified according to World Health Organization (WHO) Classification 2...

BACKGROUND SSc-ILD and IPF demonstrate significant morbidity and mortality. Predicting disease progression is challenging in both diseases. OBJECTIVES We sought a serum biomarker that could identify patients with SSc-ILD or IPF and prospectively predict short-term decline in lung function in these patients. METHODS 10 healthy controls, 5 SSc w/o ILD, 6 SSc-ILD and 13 IPF patients underwent ...

IF we read through both the basic papers which William Bright wrote some 136 and 127 years ago, and which laid the foundations of clinical nephrology, we can recognize in the detailed clinical description the nephrotic syndrome, the effects of severe hypertension and the signs of chronic renal or cardiac insufficiency. These are the endstages which follow almost all types of chronic renal disea...

Abstract Background The risk of major haemorrhage during liver surgery has decreased considerably in the modern era. However, there remains reluctance amongst surgeons to give routine peri-operative chemical thromboprophylaxis, either because perceived bleeding, or transient post-operative abnormalities conventional coagulation studies. aim this study was ask whether a defined, homogeneous popu...

about 200 times more frequently in such patients than in the general population.'416 Niederau et al found that patients receiving treatment before cirrhosis appeared did not develop hepatocellular carcinoma later.'4 The case is, therefore, convincing. Individual people with the genetic predisposition to develop hereditary haemochromatosis seem to be relatively common (at least in white populati...

©FFPRHC J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2007: 33(3) Background As historian Susan Klepp has delineated, lay, femalecontrolled abortion technologies have been a part of the American fabric since the colonial era.1 Such technologies included herbal remedies, bleeding through venesection and leeching, vigorous exercise, bathing and douching. New methods were discovered by trial and error, and trans...