The medical method of treating pain and inflammations including neurogenic inflammation of the visceral or somatic organ known herein as the effector in human body involve and mediate by the afferent nervous system and the autonomic nervous system innervating the visceral or somatic organ. The method is the application of an electrical current stimulus or an electromagnetic stimulus to aforementioned nervous systems innervating adjacent or distant soft tissues known herein as the affector. The t...

A gyroscope is firmly held against the back side of the human hand to reduce or eliminate the effect of naturally occurring tremors such as essential tremor or other tremor. The gyroscope is driven by an electric motor energized by batteries. The batteries are mounted near the periphery of the gyroscope to enhance the gyroscopic action. In a modified form of the invention the motor is not mounted on the back side of the hand but is a separate unit to which the gyroscope can be readily coupled an...

A precessional exercising device utilizing a housing containing a spinning mass which forms the rotor of a motor for spinning the mass. The spin axis of the mass is perpendicular to upper and lower flat housing surfaces adapted to be held in the palm of the hand. Alternatively, the housing may be coupled to a remote handle by a linkage permitting rotation of the handle about two mutually orthogonal axes. Also, the housing containing the spinning mass may be coupled to a remote foot plate for sim...

A kicking doll in which a system responsive to pressure exerted on the arms of the doll causes its legs to move from normal positions, which they occupy under the influence of gravity when the doll is erect or is lying on its back, toward resilient stops which define kicking limit positions intermediate the normal and sitting positions of the legs. The legs may be manually moved past the resilient stops to a sitting position determined by positive stops.

A method for forming an image transfer apparatus includes providing first image data to a flat-panel display, displaying a first output image on the flat-panel display in response to the first image data, wherein the first output image includes an optical distortion associated with a film disposed onto a front transparent media of the flat-panel display, recording the first output image onto film media with a film recorder movably coupled to the flat-panel display, producing a complementing imag...

A metered dose inhaler having part or all of its internal metallic surfaces coated with one or more fluorocarbon polymers, in combination with one or more non-fluorocarbon polymers, for dispensing an inhalation drug formulation comprising salmeterol, or a salt thereof, and a fluorocarbon propellant, optionally in combination with one or more other pharmacologically active agents and one or more excipients.

A system provides mechanisms and techniques to retrieve trace data from a trace buffer residing in a data storage system. The software program operating on a processor within the data storage system operates in trace mode to produce trace data in the trace buffer upon occurrence of trace events. An event trace routine operates in response to a system call to access the trace buffer and return either a current value of a trace buffer pointer or the current trace buffer pointer as well as trace da...

There is provided according to the invention a pharmaceutical aerosol formulation which comprises: (i) fluticasone propionate and (ii) a hydrofluoroalkane (HFA) propellant, characterized in that the fluticasone propionate is completely dissolved in the formulation. The invention also provided canisters containing the formulation and uses thereof.

The invention relates to a ready-to-use binary gaseous mixture containing 63.1 to 69.9% by volume of helium and the remainder being oxygen, preferably a mixture of 65% of helium and of 35% of oxygen, and its use in the treatment of asthma, of obstructive bronchopneumopathies and the like. Such a gaseous mixture can be used as a vector or propellant gas for medicinal aerosols, in particular aerosols containing a therapeutically effective substance chosen from .beta..sub.2 -mimetics, corticoids an...

An endoscope, in particular a resectoscope, for excising tissue, having a barrel insertable into a body cavity for feeding in and draining out an irrigating liquid and for carrying a working element which can be actuated from the proximal end of the endoscope and whose field of activity can be monitored visually through an endoscope telescope positioned at the proximal end of the endoscope, in which to protect a surgeon, a protective shield can be releasably secured on a lengthwise segment of th...