PRAISE study

Amlodipine has a t) (40 h) sufficient to permit the same benefits as the longest-acting formulations of rtifedipine without requiring a special formulation. Its slow association with L-channels and long duration of action render it unsuitable for emergency reduction of blood pressure where frequent dose adjustment is needed. On the other hand an occasional missed dose is of little consequence. Amlodipine differs from all other dihydropyridines listed in this chapter in being safe to use in patients with cardiac failure (the PRAISE Study). 

Similarly, verapamil should be used with caution in patients with heart failure, and both diltiazem and nifedipine can cause problems in patients with poor cardiac reserve. However, the PRAISE study (18) suggested that amlodipine may be used safely, even in the presence of severe heart failure optimally treated with diuretics. 

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Quite different are the feelings of Roald Hoffmann, who reminds us once and again that "chemists make molecules"..."Without molecules in hand no property can be studied, no mechanism elucidated" and explicitly proclaims that "it is the making of molecules, chemical synthesis, that I want to praise" [15a].3... 

Mendeleev studied mathematics, physics, and chemistry at the Institute. Shortly after he was admitted, his mother died. A year later his sister Liza, who had accompanied them to St. Petersburg, died also. But Mendeleev continued to work hard at his studies, graduated first in his class in 1855, and was awarded a gold medal. However, as was the custom, the examiners praised not Mendeleev but his chemistry professor A. A.Voskresenski, for having produced such a fine pupil. 

In giving the French title as La statique des vegetaux et I analyse de Pair, Buffon not only shortened it, but also promoted the analysis of air to equal status with the primary subject. In the translator s preface, he praises Hales for avoiding all spirit of system and relying on experimentation, the method of the great Newton, that Messrs Verulam, Galileo, Boyle, and Stahl have recommended and embraced. Hales book is not made merely to be read, he says, but to be studied ... 

Having praised repeated measurements, we now discuss their incorporation into the planning of hydrochemical studies. A common rule of the thumb is that each water source should be studied four times to cover at least one hydrological cycle, including the four major seasons. This may be regarded as a minimum, because time-data series with only four points suffer from poor resolution. 

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Paracelsus heaped abuse on most of the doctors of his time. He was warm in his praise, however, for those few physicians who had studied alchemy and knew how to apply their knowledge. "They are sooty and dirty like the smiths and charcoal-burners," he said, "and hence make little show, make not many words and gossip with their patients, do not highly praise their own remedies, for they well know that the work must praise the master, not the master his work.. . . Therefore they let such things alone and busy themselves with working with their fires and learning the steps of alchemy."... 

As the practice of chemistry became, in this way, more philosophical, philosophy needed to open itself up to more than just strict contemplation. Thus, Libavius used several letters in his books of correspondence to describe a philosophically based chemistry in which manual operations actually ennobled philosophical study. To one correspondent, he quoted the ancient Roman writer Cicero, saying that all praise for virtue consists in action. So, he continues, Is our chemist better off observing rather than acting ... 

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