Direct current shock is more effective than alternating current in the treatment of ventricular dys-rhythmias (Lown et al., 1962) and is more effective than drug therapy in converting supraventricular dysrhythmias to sinus rhythm (McDonald, Resne-kov, and O'Brien, 1964). Although earlier reports stressed the benign nature of the treatment (Lown, 1964; Morris et al., 1964), it has already been s...

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In this bird's eye view of the Brain, its form, functions and disorders, the author gives a merry, vivid and simple account of an extremely difficult subject. Throughout, she has made free use of analogy to translate erudite matters into terms compre-hensible to any thinking man or woman. The chapters on the Anatomy and Physiology of the Central Nervous System give a description which is as sim...

While I was confined to bed with the flu, my partner went to the local library to find me " something decent to read. " He returned with a kid's book! It's not often children's book makes it to the pages of a professional and academic journal, but Gael Jennings' humorous, yet informative, take on the gorier aspects of the history of medicine makes a fine exception. Jennings spent more than 10 y...

IN the treatment of cases of prostatic hypertrophy one is frequently confronted with severe complicating conditions which require most careful study and treatment before an operation to cure the obstruction to urination can be carried out. The kidneys are so frequently injured by long standing back pressure that the phthalein test shows in more than 40 per cent. of the cases an impairment requi...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Adding subarachnoid clonidine (an alpha -agonist) prolongs the analgesic effect of the combination of sufentanil and isobaric bupivacaine when combined during labor analgesia. The aim of this study was to compare the quality and duration of the analgesia as well as the incidence of side-effects after the addition of subarachnoid clonidine to hyperbaric bupivacaine and ...