means more likely to attain the desired end. Oil page 36. " Medical officers should never | sign any letter drafted by a subordinate without | reading it through and correcting it, if necessary "?excellent advice, not only to regimental medical officers, but to all officers, of every service and of every rank. If it were always acted upon, there would be less unnecessary correspondence to worry...

The; tendency of the regimental contractors to supply repeatedly the above vegetables in summer when other vegetables are scarce and costly is well known. This enquiry was undertaken to judge the vitamin C value of the above vegetables and to ascertain whether the quantities issued as rations were adequate. The scope of the experiments was limited to determining the antiscorbutic properties of ...

a General Duty and Regimental Medical Officer, but in Belgium collected an MC (for 'liberating a case of champagne for the Officers' Mess') and also married the sculptress Jacqueline Heyse. On demobilisation he grasped his chance, and for the next ten years worked successively as Registrar and Surgical Tutor in Professorial Units in Bristol, Edinburgh, Baltimore USA, Oxford and Leeds; so by 195...

of THEATER MISSILE DEFENSE IN WORLD WAR II SOME OPERATIONAL ART CONSIDERATIONS The World War II V-l and V-2 attacks by Germany were the first effective use of theater missiles, and the first instance of a requirement for theater missile defense (TMD). The Allied response to German cruise (V-l) and ballistic (V-2) missile attacks incorporated all the elements of modern TMD concepts—Active Defens...

I nhaled nitric oxide (NO) has long been known to be an effective pulmonary vasodilator in the normal pulmonary vasculature. In the classical NO signalling pathway, it activates soluble guanylate cyclase in the cytoplasm of pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells, leading to the production of cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP), which then activates protein kinase G (PKG). PKG, acting through se...