For one who knows neither medical history nor the science of obstetrics to attempt to review such a text is manifestly presumptuous; and yet I suspect that it is for just such persons that the book is in large part designed. Surely the medical historian will have knowledge of the characters herein described, and obviously the obstetrician can not be an obstetrician if he lacks familiarity with ...

We characterize the collapse of Buss bounded arithmetic in terms of the provable collapse of the polynomial time hierarchy. We include also some general 1nodel theoretical investigations on fragments of bounded arithmetic.

Rat adjuvant (AA) and collagen-induced (CIA) polyarthritis models, and more recently the monoarticular streptococcal cell wall (SCW) model have been used to evaluate novel therapeutic approaches to treat Rheumatoid Arthritis. All three models share mechanistic and pathologic features with each other, as well as with human RA. Most notably, they are all T cell and macrophage mediated. All have b...

Neuroprosthetics is a fast-growing area that brings together Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience and seeks to interface the neural system directly to prostheses. The main goal is to restore motor, sensory, and cognitive functions. Neuroprosthetics is electrical stimulation technologies that replace or assist malfunctioned neuromuscular systems and attempt to restore normal body functions. T...

by the author. Some of the chapters lack the sophistication of presentation appropriate for this focused monograph. The chapter on “Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing and the Evaluation of Systolic Dysfunction” by K. T. Weber provides material at a second-year medical student level, includes an incorrect statement about ventilatory limitation to exercise, and cites only five references (all by We...

organs. The volume consists of twenty-five lectures, three on urethral stricture, one on the urethroscope, catheterisation of the ureters, etc. Then follows two lectures on enlargement of the prostate and its symptoms and complications. Chapter VII gives a lucid description of the author's well-known operation and the next four chapters deal with the scope and limits of this operation and the o...

Jorjanie was born in 433 AH. Elgod said: there is no exact information about his birth place and his date of birth is in the middle of 11th century. He was a student of Ebn Abi Sadegh, the famous Iranian physician. Ebn Abi Sadegh joined the two famous Iranian physicians because he was student of Avicenna for some time and at the end of his life he had a student, which was brilliant and intellig...

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