Humour, using

The earliest uses of microorganisms to treat human disease can be traced to the belief that formation of pus in some way drained off noxious humours responsible for systemic conditions. Although the spontaneous appearance of pus in their patients wounds satisfied most physicians, deliberate contamination of wounds was also practised. Bizarre concoctions of bacteria such as ointment of pigs dung and herb sclerata were favoured during the Middle Ages. Both early central European and South... 

Stanley Shostak I m reminded of Huxley s response to Wilberforce. You ve used your enormous intellect to reduce the subject to humour. I object, and I think we have a very serious crisis in our culture, and while we might find it amusing it s going to be devastating unless we have an alternative. So let me be reductionist for a moment and remind you that in Code of Codes Watson explains that he appealed to Congress for support because he knew that the politicians wanted to be able to advertise that they... 

Acetazolamide is a carbonic anhydrase inhibitor that reduces aqueous humour production and is therefore indicated in glaucoma to reduce the intraocular pressure. Salbutamol is a selective, short-acting beta2-agonist used as a bronchodilator in asthma. Tolbutamide is a short-acting sulphonylurea used in type 2 (non-insulin dependent) diabetes mellitus. Chlorpromazine is an aliphatic neuroleptic antipsychotic drug used in schizophrenia. Zafirlukast is a leukotriene-receptor antagonist that is indicated in the prophylaxis of asthma but should not be used to relieve acute severe asthma. 

Acetazolamide is a carbonic anhydrase inhibitor, used primarily in glaucoma to reduce aqueous humour production. Acetazolamide may cause blood disorders including agranulocytosis (deficiency of neutrophils) as a side-effect. 

Acetazolamide is a carbonic anhydrase inhibitor, which reduces intraocular pressure by reducing aqueous humour production. It is used in the treatment of glaucoma. Acetazolamide is administered systemically. Recently newer carbonic anhydrase inhibitors have been developed, which are available as topical agents (for example, dorzolamide). 

Acetazolamide is a carbonic anhydrase inhibitor that is administered orally for the treatment of glaucoma. Topical carbonic anhydrase inhibitors include dorzolamide and brinzolamide. Carbonic anhydrase inhibitors reduce the production of aqueous humour, thereby reducing intraocular pressure. They can be used alone or in addition to beta-blocker therapy in glaucoma patients. 

This is the kind of creativity that gets people out of their rut. It uses humour, playfulness, breaking of rules. People who play the clown at meetings, make irreverent comments, may well be stimulating craziness creativity. 

Because of their chemical inertness, low surface tension and antisurfactant activity polyorganosiloxane (silicone) oils have found varied applications in medicine. These have included use as an artificial lubricant for arthritic joints191, as a means of soft tissue augmentation, and as an additive in creams and oils for burn treatment. Di-methylpolysiloxane fluids have been injected as replacement for aqueous and vitreous humour in eyes. Reactive organosilicon compounds comprise a new class of potential prophylactic and therapeutic agents192. Protection against atherosclerosis... 

Antiviral Efficacy and Clinical Use. Fomivirsen (Vitravene) is injected into the vitreous humour to treat CMV infection in the eye.42 This drug is often used to treat ocular CMV infections that are resistant to more traditional agents such as ganciclovir or fos-carnet. 

Latanoprost (Figure 3.19) is a recently introduced prostaglandin analogue which increases the outflow of aqueous humour from the eye. It is thus used to reduce intraocular pressure in the treatment of the eye disease glaucoma. 

The Latins used the word humour to mean moisture or fluid the tradition of the medical profession used the word regarding four fluids blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile. Depending on whichever of the four fluids was dominant, the person possessed of the humour was said to be sanguine, phlegmatic, melancholic, or choleric. 

Q6 Pilocarpine eyedrops are suitable. In severe conditions, in addition to the eyedrops, intravenous acetazolamide and intravenous hypertonic mannitol (an osmotic agent) may be used to reduce pressure. Acetazolamide prevents the actions of carbonic anhydrase in the ciliary body and inhibits bicarbonate synthesis. This causes reduction in sodium transport and aqueous humour formation since there is a link between bicarbonate and sodium transport. 

Qll Yes. Laser surgery can be used to form a hole in the iris to permit increased flow of aqueous humour. 

Acetazolamide, dichlorphenamide, methazolamide and ethoxzolamide facilitate the excretion of hydrogen ions and the recovery of bicarbonate, They are never used as diuretics but are employed to reduce the production of aqueous humour in they eye (in glaucoma). 

SALBUTAMOL IPRATROPIUM BROMIDE A few reports of acute closed-angle glaucoma when nebulized ipratropium and salbutamol were coadministered Ipratropium dilates the pupil, which l drainage of aqueous humour, while salbutamol T production of aqueous humour Warn patients to prevent the solution/ mist entering the eye. Use extreme caution in co administering these bronchodilators by the nebulized route in patients with a history of acute closed-angle glaucoma... 

Capnitis, i.e., of the furnace, or volatile it is very like Spodion (orpine matter) or Pompholyx (arsenic). It is found in the mouths of furnaces, and there is little difference in its varieties they are materially the same. Capnitis, Cadmia, and Arsenic possess the same qualities, but they can be distinguished by the places where they are made. The species under notice is good for plasters, and all are hot and astringent, in the same way that pyrites is styptic, as Serapion affirms. It is their nature to heal open sores, to cleanse the unclean, to remove fleshy excrescences, to dry up superfluous humours of the body, to help in the formation of skin, etc. As these species of Cadmia are exceedingly hot and dry, they are operated on with fire and washed in special ways set forth by Dioscorides, so that they may be useful in plasters and other medicaments. Would that our own... 

Boerhaave s prescription of mercury in venereal diseases depends upon the principle that remedies have to work in accordance with the motions of the body. For example infusions and decoctions only work when the vital motion of the living body mixes them with the bodily humours and transports them to the parts of the body where they are supposed to act their own peculiar force. Mercury, likewise, only works on account of the vital force moving the solid and fluid parts. This means that it cannot do any good when the disorder is seated in a part where the force of the heart and arteries cannot be felt. So, for example mercury is of no use when the marrow of bones is affected or when a gonorrhoea is situated in the cavities of the penis, where the humours have a very weak impetus. On the other hand ... 

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