Medical specialties, branches of medicine

The VIth World Congress of Anaesthesiology, held in Mexico City in 1976, offered several European participants the opportunity of discovering their community of views.

In 1909 a short contribution entitled "e;Geriatrics"e; was published in the New York Medical Journal.

The book you are just going to read represents the greater part of the papers presented at the International Conference on Industrial and En- vironmental Xenobiotics, held in Prague, 1980, and some contributions by those who could not come.

In den zurückliegenden Jahren hat die intravenöse Narkose zweifellos an Bedeutung gewonnen und die Verfahren der Inhalationsanästhesie zurückgedrängt.

Few subjects in gynecology, let alone in medicine in general, have provoked such inter- est or study as cervical cancer.

Wer Racamiers Buch zur Hand nimmt, reagiert zunächst mit leisem Befremden.

In this age when we are witnessing a veritable explosion in new modalities in diagnos- tic imaging we continue to have a great need for detailed studies of the vascularity of the brain in patients who have all types of cerebral vascular disease.

The purpose of this book is to provide the radiologist with information which is "e;as practical as possible"e; for the everyday use of computerized tomography (CT) in the field of cervical, thoracic, and musculoskeletal pathology.

This volume places more emphasis on endogenous mediators of gut motility than on drugs used to treat patients with deranged motility.

Since the exhaustive Handbook of Physiology (Alimentary Canal, Section 6, Motility) edited by CHARLES F.

To comment at length on the importance of the benzodiazepines seems superfluous within the scope of this preface.

This study appears at a time when a decisive turn is due in the research on personality development.

Cyclic nucleotides are intimately involved in the consequences of either stimulation or blockade of receptors; therefore, an understanding of the biochemistry of cyclic nucleotides ought to be important for pharmacologists.

The enormous importance of the diseases of the locomotor system in all populations and the large component of general clinical practice which they represent have not, in the past, been matched by an appropriate pathological effort.

All but one* of the following articles represent comprehensive reports on a workshop held between 7 and 9 May 1981 at the Institute of Virology and Immunobiology, University of Wfuzburg, Federal Republic of Germany.

The third American edition has been completely revised and expanded, although parts of the text of the second edition have been included.

The pharmacokinetics of digitalis glycosides have been the subject of extensive re- view (IISALO, 1977; ARONSON, 1980; PERRIER et ai.

Following the monographs by STRAUB (1924) and LENDLE (1935), this is the third contribution to the "e;Pharmacology of Cardiac Glycosides"e; within the Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology, which was founded by ARTHUR HEFFTER and con- tinued by WOLFGANG HEUBNER.

The world community of pediatric nephrologists has grown to a great number of active members.

Elucidating Mechanisms of Eukaryotic Genetic Expression by Studying Animal Viruses AARON 1.

The purpose of the present volume, the first of two on the pharmacology, biochemistry, and physiology of cyclic nucleotides, is to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date anthology on the nature and role of these important chemical regulators.