M. Vermeuil, in a communication on " Erysipelas and the Antiseptic Method," directs attention to the fact that in the practice of surgery, where the antiseptic method is adopted, erysipelas, if it has not completely disappeared, has become extremely rare, has almost ceased to be epidemic and even endemic, being only worthy of the term sporadic. The observations, of which he gives an analysis, l...

" This salt of cocaine (the alkaloidal principle derived from the leaves of the coca plant?Erythroxylon Coca) has lately come into prominent use as a local anaesthetic for delicate mucous surfaces. Whilst it has been successfully tested on the different mucous surfaces of the ear, nose, mouth, urethra, vagina, and rectum, it has been principally used as a means of causing anaesthesia of the eye...

Assay conditions have been established which allow maximum expression of phosphodeoxyribomutase activity in ultrasonic extracts of Escherichia coil K-12. The enzyme requires 2-mercaptoethanol, manganous ions, and glucose 1, 6-diphosphate for optimal activity. When cells are grown in minimal medium with glycerol as the carbon source and supplemented with 10-' M thymidine, phosphodeoxyribomutase ...

He painted this solution on the pharynx once or twice a day, and found that when it was done in the evening, the vomiting which so frequently ensues as the result of the effort to cough UP the small plugs of mucus characteristic of the disease did not take place on the next morning, and the irritability of the throat was less. The effect appears to have lasted about eight or ten hours, when the...

Mr. Ilolson, who was Consul for the English at Venice, having been long afflicted with the Stone in the Kidney, was at length attacked with a Fit of that Duration and Violence, that it reduced him almost to Despair; and finding no relief from any Means that had been used, and being under the greatest Extremity of Pain imaginable, he addressed himself to Dominicus de Marchettis, a famed and expe...

previous studies have indicated that some species of cuscuta possess anticancer activity on various cell lines. due to the lack of detailed researches on the cytotoxic effects of cuscuta chinensis and cuscuta epithymum , the aim of the present study was to evaluate cytotoxic effects of chloroform and hydroalcoholic extracts of these plants on the human breast carcinoma cell line (mda-mb-468), h...

conclusions these results indicate that a. kellalensis extracts exert potent anti-rotaviral activity only after viral adsorption. the two extracts from a. kellalensis showed a good selectivity index. also these results suggest that extracts prepared from the flowers of a. kellalensis may be potential anti-rotaviral agents in vivo and be useful in veterinary medicine. background achillea kellale...

pistacia vera l., a member of anacardiaceae family, has been used for sedation and analgesia in traditional medicine. in this study, the antinociceptive and anti-inflammatory effects as well as acute toxicity of the aqueous and ethanolic extracts of p. vera leaves were investigated in mice. the antinociceptive activity was studied using hot plate and writhing tests. the effect of the extracts a...

this study was conducted to evaluate the burn wound healing and antioxidant activity of methanolic and aqueous extracts of galium odoratum (l.) scop. in rats. second degree burn wounds were induced in six groups of six rats each. groups 1 and 2 received eucerin and silver sulfadiazine as control and reference standard and groups 3, 4, 5 and 6 were given methanolic and aqueous extracts of 15% an...

"2. They are not usually accompanied by haemorrhage unless in the zone of inflammation which surrounds them, although congestion and punctiform extravasation are possibilities in the early stages. "3. They are veritable necroses, the necrotic changes within them resembling those which follow the total abstraction of the blood supply in other parts of the body. " 4. They are in course of time ab...