Effects of high altitude (HA) have been encountered in aviation and mountaineering, but here the aviator or mountaineer goes fully prepared for a short stay. With introduction of pressurized planes many of the high altitude problems in commercial aviation have been solved. But in case of men who have to go to the mountains at short notice and stay there [...]
Treatment of elderly patients is not always away. It is important to realise that age is not always the true indication of the ageing process. Many people look aged even at fifty-five when they usually retire from services, while others look healthy and relatively younger even at sixty or seventy years. The study of the ageing process is known as [...]
Angina pectoris is a clinical manifestation of inadequate coronary blood supply which in the past was given many names, e.g. angina of effort, decubitus angina, nocturnal angina, intractable angina, Prinzmetal angina etc. but it is now proposed that if the angina is due to coronary vasospasm it should be called primary but if it is due to an established lesion [...]