Medical specialties, branches of medicine

The ~uestion of whether an infant's diet represents a health hazard is not new.

Als im Jahre 1978 Herr Professor Mayrhofer die Frage an mich herantrug, ob ich bereit wäre, eine Monographie über die kardio­ pulmonale Wiederbelebung zu verfassen, habe ich sie ohne zu zö­ gern und mit Freude, mit Ja beantwortet.

In clinical anaesthesiology the inhalation anaesthetics halothane (fluothane), enflurane and - in recent times - forane got a renaissance in clinical application.

This book reflects the views of an international faculty and provides an authoritative appraisal of modern radiology.

Die Zahl der verfügbaren Beta-Rezeptor-Antagonisten und Narkose­ mittel hat in den letzten Jahren erheblich zugenommen.

This book is intended for beginners and for those who want to refresh their knowledge of the elementary radioanatomy of the vertebrae, particularly their pathological radioanatomy.

When discussing the drug, the bug, and the host in the past, emphasis was laid mainly upon the interaction between antibiotics and bacteria or the reaction of the host to the invading organism.

Nach langjähriger ärztlicher, klinischer und akademischer Tätig­ keit legt Professor Dr.

The Surgeon as a Humanist Medicine is the most humane of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.

Primary myocardial disease, nowadays referred to as congestive or, more re- cently, dilating cardiomyopathy, comprises disorders of varied etiology.

For more than ten years cell fusion techniques have been applied in studies on various lymphocyte functions.

Journalists, always very direct and in search of sensation, essentially asked me two questions on the occasion of this workshop: What were the goals of the meeting?

Fever has always been recognised as the major sign of infectious disease as well as being associated with other illnesses.

Nervous system is in the most cases a likely target for the untoward effects of chemicals.

The most prominent function of the central nervous system is the control of motor functions by rapidly transmitted impulses through efferent cranial and spinal peripheral nerves.

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There is no doubt that a major problem of present day research workers, especially in the life sciences, is the plethora of publications of all kinds, abstracts, short communications, full papers in journals of varying quality, reviews and proceedings of symposia with, in addition, an unprecedented duplication of publications.

An International Symposium "e;Catecholamines and the Heart"e; was held in Munich in May 1981, which was organized in cooperation with the Council on Cardiac Metabolism of the International Society and Federation of Cardiology and with the Microcirculation Working Group of the European Society of Cardiology.

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First described in 1907 by Schicke but recognized as a clinical entity only as recently as 1958, when Teare published the pathologic findings in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HeM), an explosion of knowledge about this fascinating disease has occurred, which has caused a profound evolution of our understanding of its broad pathophysiologic and clinical spectrum.

The phenomenon of phantom limb was described in medical literature at least as early as 1545 by Ambroise Pare, according to the notes in the translation of Lemos' dissertation, "e;On the Continuing Pain of an Amputated Limb"e;, by Price and Twombly [9].

The recent development of the use of spinal opiates as a rational therapy for pain rests on clear and certain experimental data.