Baylor History of Medicine Society Schedule 2007-2008

"Medicine: Perspectives in History and Art" (Robert E. Greenspan) Eight Practical Lessons from Osler That Will Better Your Life (Bryan Boutwell) History of the American Mental Hospital: From networking to not working & Back (Ed Fann) Ambiguities and Amputations: Methods, mishaps, and the surgical quest to cure breast cancer (Student Essay Contest Winner) (Matt Luedke) An Automated, Algorithmic, Retrospective Analysis of the Growing Influence of Statistics in Medicine (Student Essay Contest Winner) (Ryan Rochat) What’s Special about William Osler? (Charles S. Bryan) The Virtuous Physician: Lessons from Medical Biography (Charles S. Bryan) Legacy: 50 Years of Loving Care – The History of Texas Children’s Hospital, 1954-2004 (Betsy Parish) The Education of a University President: Edgar Odell Lovett of Rice University (John B. Boles) Artists and Illness: The Effect of Illness on an Artist’s Work (David Bybee)

Ex vivo evaluation of a Taylor-Couette flow, immobilized heparinase I device for clinical application

Efficient and safe heparin anticoagulation has remained a problem for continuous renal replacement therapies and intermittent hemodialysis for patients with acute renal failure. To make heparin therapy safer for the patient with acute renal failure at high risk of bleeding, we have proposed regional heparinization of the circuit via an immobilized heparinase I filter. This study tested a device based on Taylor-Couette flow and simultaneous separation/reaction for efficacy and safety of heparin removal in a sheep model. Heparinase I was immobilized onto agarose beads via cyanogen bromide activation. The device, referred to as a vortex flow plasmapheretic reactor, consisted of two concentric cylinders, a priming volume of 45 ml, a microporous membrane for plasma separation, and an outer compartment where the immobilized heparinase I was fluidized separately from the blood cells. Manual white cell and platelet counts, hematocrit, total protein, and fibrinogen assays were performed. Heparin levels were indirectly measured via whole-blood recalcification times (WBRTs). The vortex flow plasmapheretic reactor maintained significantly higher heparin levels in the extracorporeal circuit than in the sheep (device inlet WBRTs were 1.5 times the device outlet WBRTs) with no hemolysis. The reactor treatment did not effect any physiologically significant changes in complete blood cell counts, platelets, and protein levels for up to 2 hr of operation. Furthermore, gross necropsy and histopathology did not show any significant abnormalities in the kidney, liver, heart, brain, and spleen.

Estudio sobre las leyes de tierras públicas,

First published in 1865

Financing options for diagnostic inspection programs. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Traffic Safety Programs, Washington, D.C.

High school terminology.

Reprinted from the Educational review, New York, March, 1915 ...

Uruguay;

U. of M. copy bears also imprint: C. Scribner's sons, New York.

The collected works of Henrik Ibsen /

Translated by C. H. Herford, William and Charles Archer, Edmund Gosse and A. G. Chater.

Handbook of physiology...

Mode of access: Internet.

Percy Aldridge Grainger : a study /

"List of Grainger's published compositions and arrangements." p. 30-36.

The people of India,

Plates accompanied by guard sheets with descriptive letterpress.

Mechanical philosophy, horology, and astronomy.

Bound with this (publisher's binding) is a catalog of books published by G. Bell and sons dated 1896.

Vigée-Lebrun, 1755-1842, her life, works, and friendships,

Mode of access: Internet.

Bruno de Zavala : suaviter in modo, fortiter in re /

Mode of access: Internet.

Travaux de physiologie expérimentale,

Mode of access: Internet.

The spirit of England,

"The papers ... were, with one exception, published in the 'Daily news' during the autumn and winter of 1914 and the spring of 1915."