[The candidacy and reception of Nancy].

As soon as the peace treaty terms were known (1871), Nancy purposed to shelter the Strasbourg Faculte de Medecine. Nevertheless, many people thought that Lyon would be more suitable for the transfer. Then, the final wars settled by Thiers (President de la Republique) was a political one showing his will to found, close to the new border line, a scientific centre which would include the Strasbourg Faculte de Medecine transferred into Nancy.

Expiratory capnography in asthma: evaluation of various shape indices.

The shape of the capnogram is modified by airway obstruction, and the evaluation of this deformation, using measurable indices, could allow an indirect measurement of bronchial patency. A previous study undertaken in asthmatic subjects showed a good correlation between a capnographic index (end-tidal slope) and a spirometric parameter (forced expiratory volume in one second as a percentage of predicted (FEV1 %pred)) and suggested the study of other indices. The correlations between capnographic and spirometric indices were measured in 10 healthy subjects and 30 asthmatic patients.

[Expiratory capnography in asthma. Perspectives in the use and monitoring in children].

The shape of the capnogram, which is related to uneven ventilation, is modified in obstructive diseases and especially during crisis of asthma. The most significant change is a rise in the slope of the "alveolar plateau". In this study, we measured the end-tidal slope (ETS) of the capnogram, calculated on 0.

Anaphylactic shock induced by paracetamol.

A 46 year old woman had adverse reactions to paracetamol. Oral challenge tests with the drug showed that the reactions were dose-dependent and they reproduced similar symptoms consisting of vomiting, diarrhoea, pruritus, skin rashes, facial oedema, dyspnoea and hypotension. There was a marked increase in blood histamine but the complement components C3 and C4 remained at normal levels.