Not long ago Professor Nussbaum treated a case of cancer of the mamma, with so strong a tendency to hemorrhage that each dressing of the ulcer threatened the woman's life. As the patient was nearly moribund from the frequent loss of blood, he surrounded the tumour with a strong subcutaneous ligature, which he drew together with all his strength and then tied. The result was not only an arrest o...

in order to find the plant extracts with antifungal activity, 18 plant species were screened. in this study, distilled water, methanol, chloroform, aceton and ethanol were employed to obtain crude extract from plant samples. the extracts were tested against sugar beet root rot agents, rhizoctonia solani and phytophthora drechsleri. the inhibitory effect of different extracts was investigated by...

Mons.. A. Joffroy, of the Hopital des Enfants-Malades, strongly recommends the systematic administration of chloral in the treatment of chorea. He administers this drug in sufficient doses to induce sleep, which is only broken twice in the twenty-four hours for the administration of food. This treatment has been methodically continued during fifteen days, a month, six weeks, or two months, up t...

much alike that serological experiment shows that by the presence of syphilis-antigen the presence in the serum of a yaws patient of framboesia-antibodies is made evident (by complement, deviation), yet the two diseases are distinct. For, as Charlouis pointed out, many years ago, the fact that a man is suffering from yaws does not protect him against luetic infection, and conversely, as Neisser...

A brief explanation of cellular and humoral immunity. Although immunity involves every orvm and system of the body, the typical conceptualization of the immune system consists of lymphocytes divided into two major divisions: the humoral mid cellular aspects. Humoral immunity includes primarily B lymphocytes and has to do with antigen/antibody reactions. These are the reactions involved in type ...

Torsion op Arteries.?Dr. Murdoch in an article advocating the superiority of torsion of arteries over any other method for checking hajmorrhage, adds weight to his remarks by saying that this method has been almost exclusively in vogue during the last twenty years, not ouly in his own hospital, but in all of the hospitals in Pittsburg. During this time many thousand operations have been perform...

the side effects associated with the usage of synthetic antidiabetic drugs make it imperative to search for alternative drugs from medicinal plants. therefore, this study was aimed at evaluating the α-amylase and α-glucosidase inhibitory potential of calotropis procera leaf, as well as its possible mode of inhibiting these enzymes. acetone, aqueous and ethanolic extracts of c. procera leaf was ...

three different solvents namely; hexane, ethyl acetate and ethanol were used in partitioning the extracts obtained from piper guineense seeds and solvent extracts were investigated for the presence or absence of secondary metabolites. extracts were further evaluated on adult maize weevils, sitophilus zeamais. experiment was carried out under laboratory conditions at 27 ± 2 °c ambient temperatur...