Skin diseases such as psoriasis, namely: psoriasis punctata, herpes simplex and mycosis fungoides are treated by administering (either topically or orally) to an afflicted subject an effective amount of monofunctional derivative of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is --COOR.sub.3 or --CN; R.sub.2 is --H or --CH.sub.3 ; and R.sub.3 is --H, --CH.sub.3 or --CH.sub.2 CH.sub.3.

Apparatus for public use adapted to detect cardiovascular diseases by checking the heart pulsations and comprising a sensitive plate arranged on the front side of the apparatus and having marks for positioning the fingers of the user on said plate in combination with means for detecting and transducing the blood pulsations in the arteries of the finger tips of the user, means for amplifying electric signals delivered by said transducing means and means connected to the output of said amplifying ...

An apparatus suitable for making a designer disease is disclosed. The apparatus comprises first, second, and third containers, each having two sections, I and II, separated by a semipermeable material through which a microbe can pass but cells from target and non-target populations cannot pass, and an entrance and an exit to each section. The entrance to section I of the first and second containers are circulation entrances, the exits from section II of the first and second containers are circul...

Disclosed is a composition of matter consisting of the juice of the medicinal plant Aloe arborescens, extracted by a novel method in pure unadulterated bees-honey, useful in the treatment and relief of respiratory diseases, affecting cures of clinical symptoms in acute cases, and achieving considerable improvement in chronic cases. The composition is taken orally by the patient, and with a unit dosage form the treatment is continued until the desired results are achieved. The method of preparati...

Phosvitin, a phosphoprotein extracted from hen's egg yolk, has been found effective in the treatment of such heart diseases as myocardial diseases, coronary heart diseases and heart failure.

A test strip for the detection of bilirubin in the body fluids, comprising an absorbing material, an organic sulfonic acid or salts thereof and a ferric salt. The test strip is useful in early diagnosis of hepatic diseases such as yellow jaundice or hepatitis.

Disclosed herein control of plant-virus diseases by applying a compound obtained by reducing the reaction product of an n-alkylamine with a sugar or a salt thereof on the plant to be protected from the plant-virus as an active ingredient.

Plants which have been sprayed with N-alkylalkanolamines and/or N-alkylalkanolammonium salts have been found to show much less tendency of suffering plant virus diseases when applied as they are or after being dissolved in solvent. The N-alkylalkanolamine is prepared by reacting an alkanolamine with an alkyl halide in the presence of a basic substance.

A method is disclosed herein for the treatment of parasitic diseases in animals such as birds and mammals, more specifically, in vivo and in vitro treatments of malaria, chagas disease and sleeping sickness with a compound comprising a unit of the formula: wherein the N may be single, double or triple bonded with respect to C, wherein R.sub.1 is one selected from the group consisting of alkali metals, ammonium and low molecular weight organo groups selected from the group consisting of alkyl, ar...

A process for differential diagnosis of various rheumatological and arthritic diseases, all of which may yield similar antinuclear antibody test results. The process comprises a continuous sequence of tests on a single serum specimen to minimize and eliminate variations, thus providing accurate results. The process involves drawing a serum from a patient and first performing an antinuclear antibody test which is evaluated. If the evaluation is positive, then the particular type of positive indic...