A preliminary study suggests that the gastrointestinal absorption of lignocaine is predictable and that adequate antiarrhythmic blood concentrations are maintained for four to five hours when 500 mg. is taken with food and for two hours if the drug is taken without food. Ventricular arrhythmias were successfully treated with oral lignocaine in four patients.

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p. 759), like myself' and many others, again calls attention to the potential dangers of rhesus isoimmunization in therapeutic abortion. He asks that the extent of this problem be further and scientifically investigated. There are, in fact, one or two further facets to be considered. Firstly, all of us are aware of the numbers of women whose first con

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