Method of Controlling Epistaxis P. V. Wadsworth, F.R.C,S ................. 506 Treating Fibrositis I. H. J. Boume, M.B ..................... 506 Advisory Councils on Industrial Health S. A. Underwood, M.B., D.I.H ............. 506 Consultants' Salaries J. M. Brindle, F.F.R., and P. J. Briggs, M.R.C.S ,.. .... 507 Self-certification F. W. B. Breakey, M.B ................... 507 Mum's Not the Wor...

‘Normal’ comes from the latin norma, a carpenter’s square, and in mediaeval times meant something at a right angle or perpendicular. A few centuries later it came to mean conforming to a standard and was used in physics to refer to the average of a set of variables. If the variable concerned, such as head size or IQ, is continuous and has a normal distribution, by convention the normal range ha...

We propose a new approach to the use of circumscription for representing knowledge. Nested abnormality theories are similar to simple abnormality theories introduced by McCarthy, except that their axioms may have a nested structure , with each level corresponding to another application of the circumscription operator. The new style of applying circumscription sometimes leads to more economical ...

From 1 January 1985 to 31 December 1990, the Northern Region Fetal Abnormality Survey received 736 notifications of fetuses with suspected urological abnormalities; a prevalence of three per 1000 births. There was a male:female ratio of 2:1, the ratio was higher in obstructive than in intrinsic renal parenchymal lesions. Overall diagnostic sensitivity was 68-9% and positive predictive value 50....

The aim of this study is to increase awareness of rare presentations, diagnostic difficulties alongside management of conductive hearing loss and ossicular abnormalities. We report the case of a 13-year-old female reporting progressive left-sided hearing loss and high resolution computed tomography was initially reported as normal. Exploratory tympanotomy revealed an absent stapedius tendon and...

the wrongdoer so as to deter him from repeating the offence or others from imitating him. Nowadays a more subjective attitude is being taken so that the welfare and reform of the criminal are considered. This leads to the conception of partial responsibility and the infliction of the indeterminate curative sentence. The first essay is by Brig. Rees who stresses the importance of diagnosis befor...