The discovery that the condition of dysmetric dyslexia results from dysfunctioning of the cerebellar-vestibular underlies the method of U.S. Pat. No. 3,842,822 issued on Oct. 22, 1974, which method uses blurring and scrambling of sequential visual stimuli to identify and measure ocular motor coordination, i.e. ocular fixation and sequential scanning abilities. As an improvement and/or alternative to the above method, the within methods, which also are useful in identifying dysmetric dyslexic chi...

An immunoglobulin-enzyme bridge technique for the detection of allergen-specific IgE antibodies in biologic fluids of atopic individuals is described.

This disclosure relates to the determination of blood loss during endoscopic operations, particularly, during transurethral resectomy. It is known in such operations to employ continuous irrigation using sterilized water which is fed into the body cavity through the endoscope and fed out again mixed with the lost blood. According to the disclosure a method is provided wherein the specific blood content is found from one of the characteristics of the outgoing water which alters with the blood con...

For suppressing cardiovascular artifact present in a respiration signal, a cardiovascular artifact filter suppresses artifacts in response to an output signal generated by a cardiotachometer. The output signal is proportional to the fundamental frequency of the cardiovascular artifact. Recurrence of respiration is determined by coupling the filter to a threshold detector. A minimum threshold level proportional to the maximum amplitude of the artifact is supplied to the detector for minimizing th...

Apparatus and method for continuously monitoring the fetal heart rate simultaneously using ultrasonic and electrocardiographic signals. The signals are continuously processed to provide an improved output fetal heart rate indication in terms of better continuity and accuracy.

A probe sheath and probe wire having a memory hook and soft flexibility are used to locate a small presymptomatic breast lesion, wherein the wire is sheathed within the sheathing cannula and both are inserted into the body tissue and directed to the site of the lesion. Thereafter the wire is extended through the sheath to assume its memory configuration and its location is determined mammographically. If re-positioning is necessary the wire may be retracted into the sheath and then extended and ...

An arrangement for noninvasively detecting both alternating and direct biocurrents in a living organism applies a magnetic field to the organism, such that a biocurrent flowing in the organism interacts with the applied magnetic field to generate a force in the tissue of the organism at the location of the biocurrent, producing an acoustic response thereat. The acoustic response is detected by placing at least one acoustic transducer detector, such as a microphone, in proximity to the organism, ...

Disclosed is a device for accurately testing the influence of a medicinal or cosmetic substance on human or animal skin. The device comprises: a tray having an inside space for containing a medicinal or cosmetic substance to be tested, defined by a bottom and a peripheral side wall, the tray being also provided with a sealing member extending laterally from the top end of the side wall toward the inside and/or the outside of the tray; a porous protecting sheet having one or more holes each capab...

A remote medical system in which vital signs and a recognition code of a counselee are transferred to a first local server through a telephone line, and, when a counseling doctor cannot be found, data is transferred to another nth local server to search for an available counseling doctor, so that an available counseling doctor can be easily found.

Methods and apparatus are provided for detecting the presence of a nonlinear characteristic of an autonomous (i.e., non-driven and time-invariant), dynamical system and for determining whether such nonlinear dynamical system is chaotic. First, a system is determined to be either nonlinear or linear. If the system is determined to be nonlinear, then noise of increasing intensity is incrementally added to a data set representing the analyzed system until the resulting test signal appears to be lin...