• ETD: An inter-racial study of trends in public health in the City of Cape Town

  

  Author: Phillips, Harry Tarley Date: 1956 This thesis is a study of the epidemiology of the City of Cape Town during the first halt of the present century. In a sense it is an expansion and oontinuation of an investigation by Brook (1949) into the pattern of health end disease of ... Read more
• Myocardial intermediary metabolism: with special reference to the isolated, contracting, perfused rat heart

  

  Author: Opie, Lionel H Date: 1961 Studies of myocardial metabolism In vivo have been considerably advanced by the introduction of coronary sinus catheterization. By determining the coronary arterio-venous differences of various substrates, Sing and other workers (Goodale, ... Read more
• A multivariate statistical approach to the assessment of nutrition status

  

  Author: Fellingham, Stephen A Date: 1972 Attention is drawn to the confusion which surrounds the concept of nutrition status and the problem of selecting an optimum subset of variables by which nutrition status can best be assessed is defined. Using a multidisciplinary data set of ... Read more
• A comparison of oral feeding and total parenteral nutrition in infants of very low birth mass

  

  Author: Higgs, Stephen Charles Date: 1975 This work was car'red out in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, from July, 1972, to December, 1973, under the guidance of Dr. A.F. Malan. This was a newly opened Unit for Coloured and African Neonates ... Read more
• Hyaline membrane disease: a study of lung function and treatment

  

  Author: Harrison, V C Date: 1967 At present, both the aetiology of hyaline membrane disease and a means of preventing it remain unknown. Recent studies indicate that a significant number of infants die of respiratory failure but there is no general agreement concerning the ... Read more
• Renal function during profound hypothermia in the dog

  

  Author: Isaacson, Leon Charles Date: 1962 During the academic year 1960-1961, the Department of Experimental Surgery, of the University of Cape Town, engaged in a series of experiments concerning the production of profound hypothermia in dogs. Hypothermia was induced by blood-stream ... Read more
• The role of pituitary growth hormone in the regulation of albumin synthesis and catabolism

  

  Author: Kernoff, Leslie Maurice Date: 1970 Some three years ago I availed myself of an opportunity of pursuing a research project in the Department of Medicine at this Medical School. At that time, a long established interest in the study of plasma albumin metabolism was given fresh ... Read more
• The petrology of the Elephant's Head dyke and New Amalfi sheet

  

  Author: Poldervaart, Arie Date: 1942 The following is a detailed study of two allied intrusions of Karroo dolerite, situated in the Matatiele district of East Griqualand (South Africa). The one intrusion is a multiple dike of exceptional form and great length. It served as the ... Read more
• The effect of cadmium on some enzymes in the developing chick embryo

  

  Author: Gubb, Peter John Digby Date: 1970 Cadmium (Gr. kadmeia - earth), a soft bluewhite metal, is a member of ~roup· II b of the Periodic Table, and lies between zinc and mercury. Cadmium (Cd) possesses the following physical constants: Atomic number 48; atomic weight 112.4; valency ... Read more
• The social meaning of domestic space : notes on a suitable research methodology for southern African architectural studies

  

  Author: Mills, Glen Trevor Date: 1986 The thesis is primarily a proposal for a research methodology. Its concern is with the analysis of southern African domestic architecture, which, it is argued, has become separated from the study of social systems and human behaviour. It is ... Read more
• The electroencephalogram in manic-depressive psychosis : relationship to psychological features and implications for a toxic-organic pathogenesis

  

  Author: Hurst, Lewis Alfred Date: 1952 This investigation was undertaken with a view in the first place to testing a claim of Pauline Davis as to the correlation, in manic-depressive psychosis, between certain psychological and electroencephalographic features, notably alpha ... Read more
• The role of amino acids in albumin synthesis and catabolism

  

  Author: Kelman, Leslie Date: 1971 Modern concepts of the structure, function and metabolism of proteins have evolved painstakingly through the centuries. In September, 1772, Rutherford discovered the gas which was later named nitrogen by Chaptal in 1790 . The fundamental ... Read more
• A study of some aspects of the toxaemias of late pregnancy in the City of Cape Town

  

  Author: Oosthuysen, Lucas van Rooyen Date: 1954 The General Introduction in Section 1, Page 1 describes briefly the scope of the work in this thesis. Section 2 deals with the Historical facts with emphasis on the History in South Africa which has never been published previously. In addition ... Read more
• The nature and remediation of spatial problems associated with interpreting diagrams of biological sections, vol.II The instructional packages

  

  Author: Sanders, Martie Date: 1995 This recommended "time planner" has been included so that you have some idea of how much time you will need for each of the lessons. One of the aims of this package is to ensure that teachers do not have to deviate more than is necessary from ... Read more
• The role of peptides as intermediates in protein metabolism

  

  Author: Berman, Mervyn Clive Date: 1964 There is much evidence in the recent literature that peptides may be intermediates in normal protein biosynthesis. This has also been inferred from certain disease states and other conditions under which protein biosynthesis is blocked at ... Read more
• Glucose tolerance in patients with abnormal endometrial bleeding during and after the climacteric

  

  Author: Benjamin, Fred Date: 1960 Two thousand years elapsed before man could unravel several of the problems and implications of disturbed glucose tolerance. As far back as 30 years B.C. gross manifestations of the disease now known as Diabetes Mellitus were recognized. ... Read more
• Spirometric and gas transfer measurements among normal adult South African men : an investigation into anthropoemtric, socio-economic, racial and environmental factors influencing lung function

  

  Author: Goldin, Jonathan Gerald Date: 1989 An investigation into anthropocentric, socio-economic, racial and environmental factors influencing lung function. In modern clinical practice the data derived from pulmonary function tests are an integral part of the evaluation of pulmonary ... Read more
• An investigation into folate deficiency in healthy underprivileged infants with special emphasis on the interpretation of the Figlu test after oral histidine

  

  Author: Friedman, Ruth Date: 1968 In South Africa, as: in other countries with a large underprivileged population group, the problem of malnutrition and its- associations and complications assumes considerable importance. Until the socioeconomic problems involved are solved, ... Read more
• The excretion of calcium and phosphorus by the human kidney

  

  Author: Dowdle, Eugene Bernard Davey Date: 1957 In this thesis I have attempted to assemble in some coherent form the fruits of two years' research into the renal handling of calcium and phosphorus. Read more
• Gonadal dysgenesis and hermaphroditism

  

  Author: Hoffenberg, Raymond Date: 1957 This thesis has developed from a study of a series of patients with a gonadal dysgenesis. Shortly after the inception of the study, Pelani and his co-workers (1954) published a report on the nuclear chromatin pattern in three cases of the ... Read more

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