INTRODUCTION THAT THE history of attempts aimed at introducing barium salts into medicine is both long and chequered is doubtless due to the highly beneficial yet also exceedingly poisonous qualities that were attributed to these compounds. The development of their use reveals an optimism in their healing powers as baseless as it was dangerous; and that more people did not succumb through the e...

Compared with the proteins of other cereals, those of rice haye been but little studied, notwithstanding the fact that rice constitutes one cf the most important sources of food for a large part of the world’s population. One reason for this is doubtless due to the unusual distribution of the classes of protein found in this seed. Unlike the proteins of other cereals, nearly all of the proteins...

DURING the last 3 decades-the insulin era in the treatment of diabetes mellitus —atherosclerotic vascular complications have become the major causes of morbidity and mortality in diabetic pexsons, doubtless due, in part, to their increased life span with insulin therapy. Diabetics, as a group, undoubtedly have an increased susceptibility to atherosclerotic disease.The causative and pathogenetic...

The present edition, the fourth, consisting of sixteen chapters, covering 288 pages, considers the various glands of internal secretion, their inter-relationship with the nervous system and nervous disorders, the therapeutic application of hormones, obesity and infantilism. As is to be expected in a book of this sort, the author makes no attempt at a profound discussion of the various subjects,...

Fulham Training School, This doubtless would be found most useful by the pupils of that school taken in conjunction with their notes ot' the lectures, but we do not think it will be of so much utility to others, except perhaps affording assistance to those called upon to train midwives. The second portion consists of actual questions set at the L. 0. S. examination, classified under their prope...

A gene is a macromolecule which codes for the structure of a protein. Lehninger (1967) points out, "The ascent from simple self-assembling systems such as oligomeric proteins and enzyme complexes to the level of supramolecular organization of subcellular organelles is a very steep one. In making it we cross a boundary to a level of organization at which the self-assembly principle doubtless ope...

It is not many years since the medical world was intrigued by the work done and proofs shown regarding the omnipotence of the thyroid gland. It was called ' the sun round which the body rotated' the draught to the fire' the sparking plug of human metabolism', terms comprehensive and doubtless correct. Now in this small volume Professor Graves sets out to review and make clear the romance of the...

capped by the empiricism and fetichism of the age; sanitary science did not exist; bacteriolgy was unheard of, and the medical world had not yet divorced itself from an impossible classification of disease, which, by its very nature, obscured the issues at stake and directed investigation away from the proper channels. One of Dr. Mouat's most noticeable failings was an undue prolixity, which ev...

DRS. DAVIS AND WILSON were the first of a long line of medical men who attended, or were appointed to attend, Queen Victoria throughout her lifetime of nearly eighty-two years. Also assisting at the birth was a midwife, Friaulein Siebold, who, although she also held a medical qualification, did not sign the bulletin. It is an interesting coincidence that the Frilulein also attended at the birth...

Regarding the inquiry made on all sides at the present day on the question of the administration of quinine in cases of fever, etc., during pregnane}7, it would doubtless be of great interest to some of your readers to know the conclu sions arrived at on the subject by the Subcommittee appointed by the Grant College Medical Societ}7, as far back as 1892, under the Chai nnanshipof Surgeon-Major ...