Dr. Hertzler appears to have very decided theories about the a)tiology of goitre, though it is rather difficult to follow exactly what they are. In his very short chapter on this subject he does not expatiate at any great length on his own theory and little more than mentions the various theories, deficiency, bacterial, toxic, etc., of other observers; in fact the chapter is rather inadequate. ...

The authors of this book have undertaken a very ambitious task. They have attempted to write a treatise on the aetiology of parasitic disease; they have attempted to weid together into one continuous story the various elements which constitute the a;tiology of any disease, epidemiology, immunology and parasitology; they have attempted to produce a single volume which can be presented to the stu...

i dult bowel intussusception is distinctly uncommon and most often due to a primary abnorality of the bowel serving as the nidus.1 We illusrate a case of spontaneous jejunal intussusception eveloping shortly after transperitoneal nephrecomy, highlighting the importance of considering his rare etiology in the urologic patient.2–5 Uncomplicated right radical nephrectomy and evel II caval thrombec...

defining the patient outcome and decision making about allocation of our limited fund and technology for comatose patients depends on our knowledge about frequency and outcome of various coma etiologies. we determined the various coma causes frequency and one-month outcome of non traumatic coma. . in addition the co existence of the primary neurologic signs with the one-month outcome of non tra...

There is growing interest in the importance of magnesium in myocardial structure and function. Most clinicians in the United States still place greatest emphasis on potassium loss in the e tiology or intensification of cardiomyopathy . This paper presents an analysis of the data that indicate that the magnesium loss from the heart , as from other tissues, interferes with the cellular machinery ...

a language of its own. On the whole, it can be said that the editor has succeeded remarkably well. Further, psychiatry must still be classed as a medical art which is trying hard, with only limited success up to the present, to become a medical science. The .following paragraph, quoted from this book, shows the difficulties of writing on this subjectThe main offices of the author will be eclect...

As an emerging subdiscipline of pharmacology, one of the priary goals of systems pharmacology is to elucidate therapeutic echanisms of combined pharmacological strategies used to treat iverse complex diseases in which multiple integrated cellular athways are perturbed. Mechanistic insights into disease pathogenesis are critical for ptimal therapeutic development. With the exception of rare onoo...