Unconscious fantasy is conceptualized as a representation for drive-related, conflict-laden, wish-fulfilling views of human experience. These are usually related to sexuality, and refer to birth, intrauterine existence, primal scene, castration, and seduction. Unconscious fantasy may be transformed into works of art through a variety of artistic means. The employment of ...

Different collagenic tissues, such as allogeneic fascia lata, dura mater and xenogeneic pericardium preserved by deep freezing or freeze-drying and packed in National Blood Service jars have been used with good clinical results in duraplasties performed at the Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital at Hradec Králové since 1956. In 1986 ...

Randomized clinical trials are an accepted form of experimentation on human subjects to determine the effectiveness of new treatment regimens or drugs. The Declaration of Helsinki, adopted by the World Medical Association, has established guidelines to safeguard humans used as subjects in medical experimentation. The ethical issues of informed consent, ...

When the ground section of a human tooth is observed through a microscope, the oblique section, or the cross section, the enamel rod is dark and the vertical section it is light. These striae have been called the bands of Schreger. In his book published in 1961, Professor Fujita quoted ...

Two distinct anatomic variations in the human midcarpal joint have been identified. In type I the triquetrohamate joint is on a smooth oblique plane with the capitolunate joint. In type 2 the triquetrohamate joint is separated from the capitolunate joint by a concave transition facet on the hamate and lunate. ...

The penetration of zinc through normal skin treated with a zinc oxide (25%) medicated occlusive dressing was studied. The mean release rate of zinc to the skin was 5 micrograms/cm2/h. After 48 h of treatment suction blisters were raised by the "Kiistala method." The zinc concentration of the epidermis, blister ...

Starting with the quotation by Paul Ricoeur: Man needs love indeed; he needs justice still more; but most of all he needs meaning, this paper states that in this present situation medical education does not prepare students to deal with human needs, neither their own nor those of their patients. ...

For nearly 50 years, nerve agents have constituted a serious threat that has stimulated extensive efforts to develop effective medical countermeasures. Recent progress in producing pharmacologic defenses suggests that humans can be largely protected from the lethal and prolonged incapacitating effects of these compounds on a chemical battlefield. Current research ...

Controversy exists in the literature as to the accuracy of the formulae used in predicting oxygen consumption (VO2) during level walking. The purpose of this study was to develop an equation for use at speeds of 54-130 m min-1. The VO2 and energy expenditure (EE) of 25 healthy subjects were ...

Local haemostatic agents have been employed for years in all surgical fields. Collagen has proved superior to other materials in terms of its haemostatic effect and good tolerability. A human-collagen fleece (Beristypt) is now available for the first time. A special manufacturing process excludes the possibility of human-pathogenic viruses being ...

The Medical Services Program for the 1988 winter Olympic games in Calgary involved detailed planning to co-ordinate facilities, equipment, supplies, transportaion, staff, and auxiliary support. The successful delivery of health care to athletes, Olympic officials, and spectators depended upon the efforts of medical volunteers, who enabled the Medical staff to ...

Current planetary quarantine considerations focus on robotic missions and attempt a policy of no biological contamination. The presence of humans on Mars, however, will inevitably result in biological contamination and physical alteration of the local environment. The focus of planetary quarantine must therefore shift toward defining and minimizing the inevitable ...

Following a definition of transsexualism, the acknowledged medical treatment and the groups of persons who may require sex changes are considered. The medical and surgical procedures involved in a sex change and the dangers inherent in such procedures are then briefly discussed. The legal implications of a sex change in ...

The philosophy underlying medical informatics, and indeed information systems in general, is discussed. The need for integrating concepts is considered, and particular emphasis is placed on the avoidance of fragmentation and overspecialization. Human and artificial intelligence are compared and contrasted. It is shown that human intellectual activity cannot be reduced ...

The human tail has been intermittently described in the literature since the early 1900s. These have typically been isolated cases presented primarily with intrigue and medical curiosity. Presented here is a series of 6 neuroectodermal appendages with a proposal for their etiological development. The material presented will support a theory ...

In Leslie Roberts' article "New targets for human gene therapy" (19 Aug., p. 906), the collaborators from Tufts-New England Medical Center were unintentionally omitted. They are David E. Johnston and Douglas M. Jefferson.

During the last 25 years relevant data which contribute to the clarification of pancreatico-biliary sphincter function, have been derived from physiological and pharmacological studies, and from cinefluorographic and manometric observations in man. The human sphincter of Oddi appears to be a complex device, relatively independent of the duodenum and endowed ...

Continuing medical education is one of the many challenges facing rural family physicians. In addition to the education needed for office practice, rural family physicians must develop and maintain a special knowledge base and technical skills applicable to their major hospital roles. This study of full-time rural family physicians' CME ...

In recent years, there has been a remarkable increase in both the rate of acquiring new information about human genetics and the importance of human genetics for modern health care. As a result, human genetics educators have queried whether the teaching of human genetics in North-American medical schools has kept ...

The products of the SOS-regulated umuDC operon are required for most UV and chemical mutagenesis in Escherichia coli. It has been shown that the UmuD protein shares homology with LexA, the repressor of the SOS genes. In this paper we describe a series of genetic experiments that indicate that the ...

Section 1 of this Spanish Order lays down that in medical interventions involved in the withdrawal, use, and deposit of semen for human reproduction, appropriate tests, with findings and certification, must be carried out to detect HIV markers. Section 2 specifies that semen obtained from persons who prove to be ...

In a series of 100 cases, morphological variations of human ossicula tympani were studied. These have seldom been considered either in classic or recent descriptions. Among them, the malleus and stapes are the most variable ones. A geometric model is proposed to systematically study any variation from the typical ossicles. ...

Laughter is not usually included in the curriculum of medical schools, therefore it is often neglected by physicians. Laughter is a reflex located in the reticular system of the hindbrain. Rich connections explain its complexity. Laughter appears very early in life and each individual has a very characteristic and stable ...

The purpose of this paper is to bring to evidence the physical traits of the ancient inhabitants of Albania, the Illyrians, through an anthropological study of 93 human skeletons of different periods. Based on the available typological data the author comes to the conclusion that the Illyrians of the Albanian ...

This paper examines the metaphysical question of 'ensoulment' in relation to the theory, put forward in an earlier paper, that human life begins when the newly formed body organs and systems of the embryo begin to function as an organised whole, at which stage there is evidence of a change ...

The number of persons in the United States potentially in contact with rabid humans has increased in recent years because of labor-intensive medical care, longer survival times, and care in two or more hospitals. Many of these persons request rabies prophylaxis, and their physicians prescribe it because of their insecurity, ...

It is essential to develop animal models for human diseases with disease onset mechanisms the same as those of humans to study the causes, and therapeutic and preventive methods for human disease, as well as to develop new drugs. In the past, many beneficial experiments were performed by selecting animals ...

A 49-year-old man presented with an acute onset of folliculitis on his right cheek. The folliculitis was unresponsive to antibiotics. A potassium hydroxide preparation of a scraping from the affected area revealed the presence of numerous Demodex mites. The patient was treated with topical crotamiton (Eurax) cream resulting in rapid ...

Some of the common foodstuffs that assist in the transmission of ascariasis in Ibadan have been determined. The frequency of recovery of Ascaris ova in the different food samples examined varied from 9.6% in tomatoes to 25.6% in lettuce leaves. The indiscriminate pollution of Ibadan environment with human faeces enables ...

The author examines the writings of Malthus and compares them with basic tenets of two modern economic approaches to fertility studies. It is suggested that "Leibenstein and Easterlin, on the one hand, base their arguments on the central role of aspirations and of relative income or status, whether it be ...

Diaphragm activity (Edi, 20 Hz low cutoff) was recorded with great time resolution to ascertain whether there is a discontinuity between its inspiratory and postinspiratory periods in humans. We first determined in anesthetized rabbits that gaps or notches in Edi occurred within 80 msec before and after the end of ...

Most hypnotic medications result in performance decrements, or "hangover effects," the morning after bedtime ingestion. However, the severity of hangover effects with new compounds is difficult to predict prior to clinical trials. This paper describes a preclinical procedure that is predictive of human hangover effects following bedtime ingestion of hypnotic ...

Cellufluor, a fluorochrome with affinity for chitin and cellulose, was retrospectively compared to gram and giemsa stains for detection of human oculomycoses. From culture-proven specimens, this chemofluorescent stain detected hyphae or yeasts on 50% of smears previously considered negative. Cellufluor is a useful adjunct in the detection and confirmation of ...

Medical practice is animated by the intention to cure; it aims to relieve the immense variety of sufferings to which human beings are subject in virtue of the conditions of their embodied existence. My purpose here is to demonstrate how a philosophical analysis of the formal structures and kinds of ...

The duration that a single odor needs to be sniffed for identification was determined for 18 humans. A hot wire anemometer and an oscilloscope were used to monitor the duration, volume and inhalation rate of sniffs. In Experiment 1 subjects used 1, 3 or 5 natural sniffs, or an unlimited ...

Air travel has become the preferred method of transportation for many Canadians, some of whom would otherwise be unable to travel long distances. Airline medical departments will provide advice and assistance with prior notification. The pressurized cabin has a slightly hypoxic atmosphere, so cardiac and chronic pulmonary patients require individual ...

The foundations of Neuropsychology lie in the fields of behavioral neuroscience, applied psychological evaluation, and behavioral neurological investigation. These areas have provided increasing sophistication about the nature of the relationship between changes in brain function and human behavior. Continuing developments in these fields will provide the foundation upon which our ...

In a random sample of animal producers and animal health personnel, 33% of the respondents in Trinidad, 15% in Guyana, 11% in Suriname and 9% in Jamaica recalled at least one case of human myiasis due to Cochliomyia homivorax (Coquerel). During 1981, respondents in Surinam (88%), Jamaica (90%), Guyana (85%) ...

Immunoreactive human growth hormone-releasing factor (I-hGRF) in human cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) was measured by radioimmunoassay using antiserum specific to the C-terminal portion of hGRF(1-44)NH2. Dilution curves of I-hGRF in the CSF were completely parallel to that of synthetic hGRF(1-44)NH2 standard. On Sephadex G-50 column chromatography a single peak of I-hGRF ...

Lathyrism has been reviewed in respect to four overlapping phases: finding an animal model for neurolathyrism, characterizing osteolathyrism in respect to its possible use as an animal model for human diseases, such as Marfan's syndrome, idiopathic juvenile scoliosis, etc., use of beta-aminopropionitrile (BAPN) as a tool to study collagen, and ...

The contention of this paper is that human understanding modifies cruelty, and that in order that cruelty can remain unmodified various mechanisms are employed. The most important processes include the worship of omnipotence which is felt to be superior to human love and forgiveness, the clinging to omnipotence as a ...

Ivermectin is a veterinary antiparasitic medication for domestic animals. Two cases of human exposure to veterinary preparations of ivermectin are reported. Patient number one accidentally self-injected ivermectin and developed nausea, pallor, and transient pain and numbness in the affected extremity. Patient number two, a 4-year-old child, ingested an unknown amount ...

A banded free-fit scala tympani array was inserted into the basal turn of nine human cochleas to evaluate the trauma produced by the procedure. These nine cochleas, together with five nonimplanted controls, were serially sectioned and examined microscopically for damage to the membranous labyrinth, in particular the spiral ligament, the ...

The avidin-biotin immunoperoxidase method and antisera against highly purified porcine relaxin were utilized to localize relaxin-like immunoreactivity in biopsied specimens from six preovulatory follicles from four women undergoing laparoscopy for oocyte retrieval in an in vitro fertilization program. By histological criteria, three of the follicles were luteinized and three were ...

In many countries the statutory use of silver nitrate prophylaxis as soon as possible after birth has recently been reviewed from both a human rights and a medical standpoint. It has been argued that silver nitrate does not prevent all cases of gonococcal ophthalmia neonatorum (GON) and that it causes ...

Programmed electrical cardiac stimulation was performed in a 40-year-old man with documented recurrent, sustained ventricular tachycardia which was refractory to standard medical therapy. Both the presence of several discontinuities in the AV nodal conduction curves during atrial and ventricular stimulation and the time intervals of the AV nodal echo phenomena ...

Developmental constraints can affect evolution. McMahon 's (1973, 1975a ) hypothesis of elastic similarity is tested as an epigenetic rule. This is an ontogenetic hypothesis that previously has not been tested with ontogenetic data. Cross-sectional data from the human femur are analyzed. Length-diameter relationships for phases of growth and aging ...

Twenty six coprolites from an archaeological site in the province of Iquique, northern Chile, were examined for parasites. Coprolites were found in two excavation units, I and II (Tiliviche site), dated respectively at 5,900 B.C. to 4,110 B.C. and 4,110 B.C. to 1,950 B.C., and identified as of human origin. ...

Recent changes in methods of childbirth attendance represent one example of an emerging emphasis on the humanization of medical treatment. Although many have observed this trend toward humanization, the process of medical accommodation--including rationales provided for change, the nature and limitations of humanization, and the consequences of "humanized" medicine--is not ...

Available reagents for the immunoassay (RIA) of luteinizing hormone (LH) in monkeys, including a cynomolgus (cynLH) tracer, an antiserum against human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), and a rhesus standard (rhLH), were assessed using an in vitro bioassay and the RIA in connection with fractionation by high-resolution isoelectrofocusing. The data presented indicate ...