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In this paper we describe a scheme to enhance the usability of Tablet PC handwriting recognition systems by creating a software module for recognizing symbols that are not a part of the Tablet PC symbol library. The goal of this work is to make handwriting recognition more useful for medical professionals accustomed to using medical symbols in medical records. To demonstrate that this new symbo...

Sciences, Medecine, Pharmacie de la Revolution d l'Empire (1789-1815), by PIERRE HUARD, with the collaboration of M. D. Grmek, Paris, Roger Dacosta, 1970, pp. 379, 154 plates (17 coloured), 130 NF. The French Revolution and the Napoleonic period that immediately followed it is the great watershed of modern history. To it may be traced not only many of the sweeping political and social changes o...

Dear Editor Symbols are powerful images which, in one pictogram, contain a host of associated ideas or cultural myths. Today as a medical symbol, the rod of Asclepius with its entwined single serpent has been universally adopted, although this was originally a symbol representing Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine, from around the 6th century B.C.E. The Caduceus of the Roman god Mercury (the ...

Sembol ya da simge “duyularla ifade edilemeyen bir şeyi belirten somut nesne veya işaret” olarak tanımlanmaktadır. Tıbbın sembolü antik çağlardan günümüze asaya sarılı yılan bilinmektedir. Yılan birçok medeniyette, sağlık, hekimlik, bilgelik, güç ve ebedi yaşamla ilişkilendirilmiştir. Antik toplumlara ait mitolojilerde efsanelerde her yıl deri değiştirerek gençleşmesi nedeniyle sonsuz yaşamın k...

Today, two serpent motifs are commonly used to symbolize the practice and profession of medicine. Internationally, the most popular symbol of medicine is the single serpent-entwined staff of Asklepios (Latin, Aesculapius), the ancient Greco-Roman god of medicine. However, in the United States, the staff of Asklepios (the Asklepian) and a double serpent-entwined staff with surmounting wings (the...

Visual clinical examination forms the diagnostic basis in skin-related conditions and is an essential element medical teaching. The author describes a symbol-based aid to explain dichotomy of factual observed findings with information based on history: Eye Ears. It represents two most relevant aspects helps clarify contrast between actual observation context or past history. With described aid,...