A is the Abscess which, hid in the brain our surgeons have tried for, trephining in vain. B is the Bleeding the patient must stand who submits to one eminent surgeon's command. C is the 'Crowner' who winds up the job (1) and deducts from the medical witness a bob. D is for Dick with great gifts you'll agree: (2) he can steal a postmortem or cure a D.T. E is the Extern where pupils get cheek fro...

A Medical Survey of the Irish Famine of 1846 A I?obert Campbel/ Memorial Oration By LT.-GEN. SIR WILLIAM MACARTHUR, K.C.B., D.S.O., O.B.E., M.D., D.SC., F.R.C.P., F.R.C.P.I. MANY years ago as a house surgeon in the Royal Victoria Hospital, it sometimes fell to my duty to call on Mr. Robert Campbell in the middle of the night to deal witf some surgical emergency in the wards. And when on these o...

BACKGROUND Intracavitary brachytherapy (ICBT) is usually applied as boost radiotherapy for superficial residual of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) after primary extern-beam radiptherapy (ERT). Here, we evaluated the outcome of endoscope-guided interstitial intensity-modulated brachytherapy (IMBT) boost radiation for deep-seated residual NPC. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Two hundred and thirt...

Background: Anatomy is one of the most important and basic medical science courses in the basic sciences. The aim of this study was to evaluate the importance of anatomy in clinical practice from the viewpoint of intern and extern medical students in Mashhad University of Medical Sciences. Methods: A descriptive study was performed in the...

Background: Morning reports, along with clinical rounds and practical tutorials are common, useful, and valuableprocedures in clinical education.This method has standards that play an important role in helping the students in learning, when complete.The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effective items in morning reports of clinical wards of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences. Mater...

o The overall aim oithis project is to address the current unsustainable situation §f the manufacturing industry in Penang, and thdjnadequacies in the regulation of this industry, in order to point towards ways that a regulation of the industry can support a less unsustainable industrial development. Penang, a small state in Malaysia, has the past 20 years underwent a tremendous economic growth...

A 16-year-old girl was seen by a local ophthalmolog ist because of diplopia and fullness of the right eye. Exam ination revealed visual acuity of 20/20 in both eyes with a 2-3 mm proptosis of the right eye. The right eye was also displaced downward with restri c tion of upward gaze and redness of the right canthus. There was a machineli ke bruit over the right eye and a thrill over the right su...

The birth of Neurology was an act of intelligence. Neurologists have established a link between what they observed clinically at the bedside and what they had learnt from anatomists. A paralysis of the right third pair is associated with a left hemiparesis, immediately the sketches of the nerve cords and centers remind us that these two cords intersect at the midbrain, there are therefore stron...

BACKGROUND The transition from student to newly qualified nurse can be stressful for many newly qualified nurses who feel inadequately prepared. A variety of support strategies to improve the transition process have been reported across the international literature but the effectiveness of such strategies is unknown. OBJECTIVES/AIM To determine the effectiveness of the main strategies used to...

1 Diese Arbeit wurde teilweise gefördert durch das BMBF-Projekt REMsES, Förderkennzeichen 01 IS F06 D. 1 Einleitung Eingebettete Systeme, beispielsweise im Automobilbereich, beinhalten eine Vielzahl miteinander interagierender Funktionen, die jeweils über mehrere elektronische Komponenten verteilt sind. Die Methode COSMOD-RE [PS07] unterstützt die Entwicklung von Anforderungen an softwareintens...