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From: pce9202@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Patricia Emily)
Subject: Missing front tooth - need medical advice.
Organization: Boeing
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 22:17:54 GMT


			

		WHAT TO DO ABOUT A BROKEN TOOTH???

My sister injured her front upper tooth as a child.  
The nerve in the tooth atrophied and died over the years.  
Now the problem is that the whole tooth fell out.  She had 
it "glued" in, but it is not a long-term solution.

She is looking for a conservative, long-term solution.  
She was told about teeth that are "screwed" into the bone of the 
tooth socket.  However, she was told that this is painful, and 
may have other problems associated with it.  She mentioned 
another solution ( a partial??) maybe, but I can't 
remember at the moment.

I am posting this hoping for some information, or someone with 
a similar experience.  She is looking for the most conservative 
approach possible (i.e. no surgery, or painful prosthetics, etc.)  

Please excuse my incomplete knowledge of the dental technology and
terminology.  I'm hoping some one can supply some information, or 
resource I could investigate.

Thank You!
From: km@ky3b.pgh.pa.us (Ken Mitchum)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: What's Lorazepam
Date: 23 Jan 93 16:35:37 GMT
Organization: KY3B - Vax Pittsburgh, PA

In article <szikopou.727038286@cunews>, szikopou@alfred.carleton.ca (Steven Zikopoulos) writes:
|> One problem I have with your comments is using tolerance as a mark of
|> addiction.  It may be necessary, but not sufficent.

Development of tolerance plus the occurrence of an abstinence syndrome
including withdrawal symptoms is considered addiction. Seizures are a
pretty good withdrawal symptom.

|> With respect to BZs I agree that they can be addictive (or if
|> you prefer...habit forming).  What I disagree with I guess is that
|> you're using physiological markers as evidence for addiction and
|> ignoring psychological systems involved.  This is especailly important
|> when discussing anxiolytic meds.

With addiction, psychological activities may facilitate obtaining more
of the drug. No one is denying that. But I think there is a definite
difference between addiction and habituation. You may think you are
addicted to chewing gum, but you probably chew the same amount you did
ten years ago, and if you stopped tomorrow you would have no ill effects.

|> 
|> We're doing the mind-brain dance again, and some choose to see things
|> sharply divided...I see shades of grey.

There is no mind-brain dance here. Gordon sought to clarify the issue, not
obscure it. 

-km
From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Depression; was: Re: Thyroid info needed
Date: 27 Jan 93 19:37:05 GMT
Reply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science

In article <C12vzy.6zo@athena.cs.uga.edu> mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington) writes:
>In article <2432@hsdndev.UUCP> rind@enterprise.bih.harvard.edu (David Rind) writes:
>>
>>I don't know of the data comparing responses to women vs. men, but there
>>is certainly data that overall physicians are much too *slow* to
>>ascribe symptoms to depression.  Depression is perhaps 50% underdiagnosed
>>by primary care physicians and is a cause of many extensive and
>>expensive medical workups looking for explanations for vague
>>constitutional symptoms.
>
>Well, doesn't it make sense to look for potentially curable causes of
>vaguely ill health before assuming it's a problem that can only be treated
>symptomatically?
>

So few things are as treatable as depression and even fewer curable
that we are very happy when we find depression is what is causing
the problem, if the problem seems serious.  That we can treat and
usually very successfully.








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Newsgroups: sci.med
From: dedmunds@selkirk.sfu.ca (Darran Edmundson)
Subject: long term effects of bruises?
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:05:01 GMT

Firstly, what exactly is a bruise and what causes the discoloration?
Does your body typically recover fully from a bruise or is there some
lasting effect?  Is the common myth that repeated bruise/healing
cycles will make an area less prone to future injury correct?

(FYI, my shins and forearms are continuously bruised in Karate and I
 wonder about potential long term effects.)

Regards,

-- 

Darran Edmundson
dedmunds@sfu.ca

Newsgroups: sci.med,ca.earthquakes
From: stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini)
Subject: Re: earthquakes during surgery
Organization: Unocal Corporation
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:37:56 GMT

One in a million chance, literally.
One the average over the past 20 years living in SF and LA, two magnitude 7+ included,
I have felt about ten seconds of significant shaking oer year.
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: kudzu@netcom.com (Michael Sierchio)
Subject: Re: Re: Cellular telephones and brain tumors
Organization: True Love, and Home-Grown Tomatoes
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:23:10 GMT

In article <4126@hpwala.wal.hp.com> joes@hpwarbz.wal.hp.com writes:
>
>Also, has anyone ever  noticed the large  number of people that live  directly
>under TV  transmitter  towers?  I'm told the field is so  strong  that one can
>cause  a  fluourecent  bulb  to  glow  slightly  just  by  holding  it.  These
>transmitters  emit roughly  100KW.....I  haven't heard of any anomalies  among
>people under them......

So, they must not exist, huh?  

1 watt 2" from head is the issue. 
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Newsgroups: sci.med
From: hinz@bonfire (David Hinz (hinz@picard.med.ge.com))
Subject: Re: heated gloves?
Organization: GE Medical Systems, Magnetic Resonance
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 07:15:11 GMT

Ken Mitchum (km@ky3b.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
: |> >: >So does anyone know where to get rechargeable chemically-heated gloves?

: Don't know, but do they still make hand warmers? When I use to throw newspapers in
: Iowa, I lit these things and stuffed them in every place I could. I was a walking
: torch.

: -km

This past week at the grocery store I found a rechargable chemical pack, 
suitable as a handwarmer.  It contains a supersaturated solution of
sodium acetate.  Basically, it's a sealed plastic bag, with the solution and
a flexible metal disc.  You flex the disc, it causes the liquid to change to
a solid, which produces lots of heat.  You recharge it by putting heat
back in (boiling), and it goes back to a liquid.

I bought one ($5.00), and it works well.  Seems to me you could make these
in pretty much any form you wanted to (to fit gloves/boots better, for
instance), for a heck of a lot cheaper than $2.00 per ounce of Sodium Acetate.

(Hazily recalled chemistry here...to make the solution, you would heat
H2O in a double boiler(?), add Sodium Acetate until you dissolve all you can.
siphon off (or whatever) solution, seal in appropriate container, and let it
cool.  As it cools, it'll stay liquid until disturbed, possibly just shaking
would do it).

Apologies for the .chem stuff on .med, but that's where the question was
asked.....

--

Dave Hinz  -  Opinions expressed are mine, not my employer's.  Obviously.
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: lh7873@gemini
Subject: Pharmacuetical sales 
Reply-To: lh7873@gemini
Organization: University of Albany, SUNY
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 05:32:19 GMT

Hello out there,
	The aim of my question is to find a source of information
about employment in the field of pharmacuetical sales.  My Lady friend
and I go to school (and live currently) in Albany, NY.  I am considering
attending podiatric medical college in Miami, Forida.

	She wants to get into pharmacuetical sales as a career.  The
question is where can I find information about employment in this field
that would enable her to work in Miami (or near-by).  She told me that 
pharmacuetical companys base in one area have people working all over 
the country.  This seems to make sense to me, but where can I find 
possible companys to contact that may possible employ her in Miami?
(other than the "career development center at my Univeristy.  There is a 
lot of competition as you might expect for the companys they name.  I
am looking for a source/guide/journal to research.)

	Any help would be appreciated.  
Thanks.
From: ballt@ucs.orst.edu (Teresa Ball)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Questions to ask during a Physical
Date: 27 Jan 1993 17:23:02 GMT
Organization: University Computing Services - OSU
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucs.orst.edu


I just received a reply to my question that suggested he (my son - see 
previous article on this) may not be sleeping during the night.  I 
thought I would add this to my request, so that others would be able
to elimanate this posibilty and perhaps give some other suggestions.

Well, the bain of my son's excistence is the fact that I have exceptional
hearing and am a light sleeper to boot.  I sleep in the next room and
can confirm that he is sleeping, and not snoring.  This also occurs
during warm weather, so I don't think it is just becuase he is cold
when he sleeps, so is not sleeping well.  He hasn't been taking any
medications that I know of, but I will ask the doctor to check for drugs
that I may not know about.  

All in all, I think it may be something physical.  Either his growth
spurt or something else.  I would just like to know what else.

Thanks

Terry
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: coleman@rocky.cs.ucla.edu (Mike Coleman)
Subject: Re: Adiposity 101
Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 04:07:40 GMT

caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX) writes:
|"Professional diet wonk" is a phrase, inspired by Rush Limbaugh, designed

Hmm.  Now why aren't I surprised that Chuck is a Limbaugh fan?

-- 
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		 The road to hell is paved with dead puppies.
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: john@anasazi.com (John R. Moore)
Subject: Re: How does the body adjust to high altitude?
Organization: Anasazi Inc, Phoenix AZ USA
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:54:43 GMT

sloubtin@dsg.cs.tcd.ie (Sylvain Louboutin) writes:


]another related question:

]the current altitude record with a sailplane (non-pressurised aircraft,
]although equipped with oxygen breathing system), is slightly more than
]50,000 feet.  

]what would be the highest possible altitude reachable safely without
]pressurisation (i.e., with the crew still able to operate an aircraft)?
]and what would happen higher?  (I am not talking of hypozia, here as
]a breathing equipment is used.)  In other words what would be the
]physiological limit to such records? 

(possibly rusty memory from a Navy flight physiology course for airmen
 I took about 25 years ago):
At somewhere around 45-47000 feet, you will lose the ability function
even with a forced pressure oxygen mask.  Your body would have to be in a 
pressurized area or suit at or above that altitude.

By the way, in that course they put us in a high altitude chamber and
took us to 45000 feet with a mask. Then they brought us down to around
30000 feet and had us take of the mask. Interesting effect... even
expecting hypoxia it was so sneaky that I never detected it until
someone came along and put my mask back on.

However, remember that we are really talking about pressure altitude,
not altitude above sea level. The sail plane may have been flying
in a high pressure area where the pressure altitude was higher than
the MSL altitude.
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Newsgroups: sci.military
From: hhtra@usho72.hou281.chevron.com (T.M.Haddock)
Subject: Re: Air launched tomahawk?
Organization: Chevron
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:38:05 GMT


From hhtra@usho72.hou281.chevron.com (T.M.Haddock)

In article <C15yF6.KC1@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>, dpe@inel.gov (Don Palmrose) writes:
|> From Don Palmrose <dpe@inel.gov>
|> In article <C143uI.3F3@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>, Apostolos Karmirantzos <karmira@natinst.com> writes:
|>>  From Apostolos Karmirantzos <karmira@natinst.com>
|>> 
|>> Isn't there an [Tomahawk] air-launched version also? 
|> 
|> As for US Navy cruise missiles, only the Harpoon (50 NM range 
|> according to open literature) is air launchable and does not have
|> a land-version (anti-ship only).

 Incorrect.

 The SLAM (Standoff Land Attack Missile) is the Navy's land-version
 of the Harpoon.  It is essentially a Harpoon with a Maverick IR 
 seeker head, radio telemetry, and slightly longer range.

 Remember the missile video of it diving into the side of that 
 warehouse near the fire escape ladder - that was a SLAM.

 Like Harpoon, SLAM runs a "route" to the target, but, at a certain
 distance from the target, instead of turning on a radar like Harpoon,
 it turns on its IR seeker and relays the image back to an operator
 who can then send course corrections and such to the SLAM.

  
|> I thought that the Navy was talking about making Tomahawk air-
|> launchable but I think its length does make it difficult to put 
|> under a wing of A-6 or F/A-18.

 You'd be surprised at what they could put under a wing.  ;) 

 Length really doesn't have that much to do with it.  Those monster
 fuel tanks must be 15-20 feet long!  A Tomahawk isn't that much
 longer than a SLAM or HARM.
 
 The Tomahawk only weighs about 2,000-3,000 lbs and the A-6 can carry
 several 2000 lb bombs.


|> I do remember that the manufacturer of Tomahawk did submitted it
|> in the competition for the Air Force's ALCM program but lost to the Boeing
|> design.  I guess the Air Force doesn't like anything the Navy produces ;-) 

 Huh... what about the F-4 Phantom?


|> Also, look who's land attack cruise missile is seeing all the action :-) :-). 

 Yeah... the US's!   Better'n those Rooskie's, huh!  :)



 TRAVIS
 hhtra@chevron.com
From: mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Internal/External (was Re: Scope of Action-US Military)
Summary: Commander of the Forces Now Assembled Against Washington
Date: 27 Jan 93 16:10:38 GMT
Organization: :


From mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us

In article <C1F7Aw.LDI@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>, PAUL D CHAPIN <pdchapin@unix.amherst.EDU> writes:
> From PAUL D CHAPIN <pdchapin@unix.amherst.EDU>
> patterson,george r (patter@dasher.cc.bellcore.com) wrote:
> : From "patterson,george r" <patter@dasher.cc.bellcore.com>
> : In article <C17vr8.Eso@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> Jerry Han <jhan@debra.dgbt.doc.ca> writes:

> : >>Ever heard of the War Between the States (also called the Civil
> : >>War or the Valiant Fight Against Yankee Agression)?
 
> ...  At what point in a rebellion does the issue stop being an internal
> affair, and in theory not the concern of third parties, and become a
> dispute between nations.
 
> It could be argued that the Confederacy showed almost all the attributes of
> a sovereign state and, therefore, alliance with a European power would have
> not constituted interference with internal U.S. affairs. The critical area
> that the South never controlled was its own foreign trade, which the North
> kept under its control with the crude tool of a blockade.

Critical indeed.  Keeping the rebellion a rebellion was a central concern
of Lincoln.  Somewhere in one of Catton's books, there is an episode in
which Lee attempted to communicate with Lincoln; so long as Lee signed
himself as an officer of the Confederacy Lincoln refused to reply because
he would thereby recognize the Confederacy as an entity of its own.  The
only time he replied was when Lee styled himself something like ``Commander
of the forces now assembled against Washington.''

Blockade runners notwithstanding, the Union Navy helped to keep the
Confederacy from being recognized; no European power was willing to do
it unless they could trade successfully and put the new nation in their
debt.
-- 
 (This man's opinions are his own.)
 From mole-end				Mark Terribile

 mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us, Somewhere in Matawan, NJ
Newsgroups: sci.military
From: William Logan Lee <bill@extro.ucc.su.oz.au>
Subject: Re: Uranium depleted shells
Organization: /etc/organization
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:52:32 GMT


From William Logan Lee <bill@extro.ucc.su.oz.au>

In article <C19ny5.3IE@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> MegaZone <megazone@granite.wpi.edu> writes:
>There are API shells which are DU. You do not get 'fusion' with Uranium in any
>case, especially DU. What happens in on contact the KE of the round becomes
>heat, melting the armor and the round and forming a high-temperature molten
>metal jet that slices through the armor. The temp is high enough that on 
>exiting the back of the armor the DU ignites. DU burns extremely hot, and 
>will set off ammo, etc inside the vehicle.

It is not even the heat of the impact that penetrates the armour, just the
plain KE of the impacting round.  High velocity impacts behave very much like
the interaction of two liquids as the pressures generated far exceed the
yield strength of the materials.  Impacts are usually modelled on this
assumption and this appears to be a reasonable model.  After the pressures
fall below their previously extreme levels, the materials again behave like
the solids they are.  They will be very hot from the conversion of KE
into heat, but the heat generated is not the method of penetration.
On penetration, the pressures generated by the impact cause a spray of
material from around the exit point (as well as the remaining projectile
exiting). This material is very hot and ignites on contact with the oxygen
in the air.  Even without the heat, "uranium metal in thin layers ignites
at room temperature within a few minutes after exposure" and "powdered
uranium [is] 'usually pyrophoric'" [_Military and Civilian Pyrotechmics_,
page 32].  This accounts for the incendiary nature of the impact.

The use of DU in a round is dictated by its physical characteristics
(like density) and its availibility, rather than the chemical nature
(such as pyrophoricity).  Non-nuclear countries do quite well with
tungsten penetrators.

Bill Lee
From: bphdarcy@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Sean J. Roc D'Arcy)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Submarine related questions
Date: 27 Jan 93 16:10:47 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo


From "Sean J. Roc D'Arcy" <bphdarcy@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu>

>In article <C1F6tJ.KHu@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> demaine@ee.ualberta.ca (Cal Demaine) writes:

>>2.  What material is used for the sound-deadening coating of modern boats?
>>I have heard that sorbathane was developed for exactly this purpose.  Is

I have also heard the above term used.  If not mistaken, this is a type of 
thick latex-like material, with sinuses or the like in it.   
SJRD
From: budden@trout.nosc.mil (Rex A. Buddenberg)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: triremes
Date: 24 Jan 93 15:59:43 GMT
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego


From "Rex A. Buddenberg" <budden@trout.nosc.mil>

1.  Biremes and triremes generally sayed within eyeball range
of the beach for navigation reasons.  Read your Thucydides --
in the Peloponessian Wars, Athenian vessels travelled to Sicily
and coasted all the way.

2.  The Romans were not without an effective Navy, at least
during part of their history.  Hannibal went over the mountains
after going through Spain because the Romans held sea control
over the Med and prevented any landings on the Italian boot.
This is the central  example in Mahan's first book.

Rex Buddenberg
Newsgroups: sci.military
From: MegaZone <megazone@realsoon.wpi.edu>
Subject: Re: Submarine related questions
Organization: WPI Discordian Society, Undocumented Cabal
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:39:09 GMT


From MegaZone <megazone@realsoon.wpi.edu>

In article <C1F6tJ.KHu@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> demaine@ee.ualberta.ca (Cal Demaine) writes:
>1.  What is the shape of the tail/rudder on the 688 class and Ohio class
>boats?  I have a large number of pictures of these subs, and not a one
>shows either's rear end.  Is it a standard plus "+" configuration, or some
>hybrid "H" or "double H"?

It's like this....
                        
                          |
                       |-(*)-|
                          |

A standard cruciform tail with vertical endplates on the tips of the 
horizontal members.

>2.  What material is used for the sound-deadening coating of modern boats?
>I have heard that sorbathane was developed for exactly this purpose.  Is

Pass.

>3.  There are two large American Subbases with the same name - "Bangor".
>One is on the east coast and one is on the west coast.  Any reason for
>the duplicate name?  What is the history of these bases?

Bangor, Maine and Bangor, Washington... The cities were there before the
ports. I think it may be that the city is washington was named after the city
in Maine due to similar locations, purpose (port) etc....

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From: Mike Schmitt <shuksan.boeing.com!major@bcstec.ca.boeing.com>
Subject: Re: Napoleon's Guard
Organization: Man Machine Systems Technology
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:37:38 GMT


From Mike Schmitt <shuksan.boeing.com!major@bcstec.ca.boeing.com>


  Voltigeurs were almost the exact equivalent to the British Light Infantry
  companies of the British Line battalions - in selection, training, and
  deployment.  Specifically the best marksmen - and usually deployed in
  skirmish order.  

  Of the French line infantry, 'center' (or Fusilier) companies wore the 
  crowned letter 'N' on their surtout turnbacks - grenades for the Grenadier 
  company and horns for the Voltigeur company.  Center company officers carried 
  a straight sword.  Grenadiers and Voltigeurs carried curved sabres. 

  Usually, one company of light infantry per battalion was deployed forward
  as a skirmishing screen and engaged in sniping fire.

  In 1808 the French Line Battalion consisted of six center companies, one 
  grenadier company and one voltigeur company.

  Numerous regiments of light infantry were formed called Tirailleurs.  In
  a Tirailleur regiment, the Line companies were replaced by Chasseur 
  companies and the Grenadier company was replaced by a Carabinier company.

  
  It was the Voltigeurs and Tirailleurs of the 'Young Guard' commanded by
  General Duhesme that defended Plancenoit against the initial approach of
  the Prussian 16th Brigade of Bulow's IV Corps.  The Young Guard suffered
  heavy casualties but could not hold Plancenoit.  The Chasseurs of the
  Middle Guard were sent to assist and retook the town.  The reformed Young
  Guard rallied behind the Middle Guard and held on to Plancenoit until
  nightfall.

-- 
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are protected by the 1st Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of
America.  No mission too difficult, no sacrifice too great.  Duty first.