Abstract: An improved instrument for removing thermoplastic bone cement by applying a heater tip of heating wire to the cement to melt the bone cement inserting the hot heater tip into the bone cement, allowing it to cool embedded in the bone cement and to pull the instrument and, through the embedded heater tip, pull the bone cement from the bone.

Abstract: A light weight explosive mass for a spherical charge of high explosives used to simulate nuclear bursts at ground or above ground level or underwater wherein the sphericity of the loaded explosive mass must be maintained within tight tolerance, exemplary of which are particulate ammonium nitrate/fuel oil (ANFO) explosive and liquid nitromethane explosive, contained in a flexible fabric shell that becomes spheroidal by reason of being filled with the explosive, is disclosed.

Abstract: A method of purifying platelet-bearing liquid by contacting the liquid to be purified with solid povidone-iodine to expose the liquid to I.sub.2 on such surface to kill pathogenic organisms therein and removing the liquid from contact with the solid povidone-iodine, and the use of the same in treating patients are disclosed.

Abstract: Hydrolytically and thermooxidatively stable monophospha-s-triazines prepared by reaction of octafluoroisobutylene epoxide with an acid fluoride followed by transformation of the resultant product into an amide, then into a nitrile, reacting the nitrile with ammonia and reacting the imidoylamidine resulting from the previous steps with di-aryltrihalophosphorane to produce mono-phospha-s-triazines that are useful as antioxidant - anticorrosion agents for perfluoroalkylether fluids are disclosed.

Abstract: A Christmas tree or tree container and protective underlay comprising a bottom which lays in a flat circular sheet forming the top of a first open bottomed container and the bottom of a second open topped container, the walls and circular sheet being so constructed, secured and configured as to define cylindrical containers closed at one end with the disk-shaped circular sheet and open at the other end and being substantially moisture and vapor tight, the first container walls being constructed and configured to be folded accordion-like under the circular sheet during display of the Christmas tree and to be lifted to enclose the Christmas tree for disposal thereof is disclosed.

Abstract: An IgE-binding protein, .epsilon.BP, which contains two domains: the amino-terminal domain (140 amino acids) consists of a highly conserved repetitive amino acid sequence, Tyr-Pro-Gly-Pro/Gln-Ala/Thr-Pro-Ala-Pro-Gly-Ala, whereas the carboxyl-terminal domain (122 amino acids) shares significant sequence homology with a domain of lymphocyte/macrophage receptor for the Fc portion of IgG is disclosed.

Abstract: Biologically competent non-pasteurized albumin wherein virus present in the source fluid has been inactivated with one or more of a class of compounds exemplified by glycyrrhizin, glycyrrhizinic acid or glycyrrhetinic acid glycoside, and analogous triterpenes, e.g. carbenoxolone and cicloxolone and their derivatives, and blood substitutes comprising such albumin and hemoglobin are disclosed.

Abstract: Adjustable, flexible mitral and tricuspid annuloplasty rings having internal drawstrings that emerge from the rings on the annular faces so that the drawstring knots are out of the bloodstream, the drawstrings being contained in clearly marked channels, the mitral ring having a curved semi-flexible stiffener member in the anterior segment to maintain intertrigonal distance during implantation, the plane of the anterior segment lying at an angle of about 30.degree.-75.degree. to the plane of the posterior segment, arcing up across the anterior leaflet to prevent outflow tract obstruction.

Abstract: An integrated self-storing flag holder for flags on flagstaffs that have an elongate slot in the proximal end, comprising a main support plate having positioning means to engage the elongate slots and elongate fasteners extending through the slots to secure the flagstaffs in display position and to permit the respective flagstaffs to pivot to the storage position is disclosed.

Abstract: A method of arthritis and other inflammatory diseases in humans or other mammals, comprising introducing into the circulatory system of the human or other mammal to be treated a composition consisting essentially of at least one C-20 to C-26 aliphatic alcohol in a physiologically compatible carrier is disclosed.

Abstract: The treatment of blood plasma to inactivate or destroy infective viruses, such as the cytomegalovirus CMV, by mixing the plasma with an effective amount of glycyrrhizic triterpenoid compounds is disclosed. Detergents, glycerol or ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid can be added to augment the affect of the glycyrrhizic triterpenoid compounds.

Abstract: A method of arthritis and other inflammatory diseases in humans or other mammals, comprising introducing into the circulatory system of the human or other mammal to be treated a composition consisting essentially of at least one C-27 to C-32 aliphatic alcohol in a physiologically compatible carrier is disclosed.

Abstract: Pharmaceutical compositions for enhancing absorption of a topically administered formulation through dermal or mucosal membrane, for local or systemic application, comprising one or more agents of formula I: ##STR1## where: R is a saturated or unsaturated, straight or branched, cyclic or acyclic hydrocarbon group with from 1 to 19 carbon atoms or an alkoxyalkyl group; n is 2-20; X is selected from H, OR.sub.2 or NR.sub.2 R.sub.3 ; wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are independently selected from H, alkyl, haloalkyl, acyl, carbalkoxy, carbalkoxyalkyl, hydroyalkyl, acyloxyalkyl, alkoxyalkyl, aminoalkyl- and acylaminoalkyl; i) with the proviso that when n is 2, X is OR.sub.2 and R.sub.2 is H, then R.sub.1 is not hydroxyalkyl, specifically, 2-hydroxyethyl; and ii) with the proviso that when n is 2 and X is NR.sub.2 R.sub.3, then R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 may combine to form a heterocyclic ring and R.sub.3 is not acyl; and iii) with the proviso that when X is NR.sub.2 R.sub.3, then R.sub.2 and R.sub.

Abstract: The treatment of blood or body fluid and body fluid samples to inactivate or destroy infective viruses, such as the cytomegalovirus, by mixing the sample with an effective amount of glycyrrhizic triterpenoid-detergent, glycyrrhizic triterpenoid-glycerol or glycyrrhizic triterpenoid-EDTA, combination followed by analysis or testing for diagnostic or other purposes is disclosed.

Abstract: A method of removing plaque from vessels by at least partially isolating a portion of a vessel which is partially occluded by plaque from the remainder of the vessel, forcing a slurry to flow in contact with the plaque in the vessel to abrade the plaque, and withdrawing the slurry from the vessel, and apparatus for carrying out the method, are disclosed.

Abstract: A ball joint type trailer hitch which comprises a ball assembly and a ball receiving assembly comprising a body forming a ball receiving end having formed therein a generally spherical cavity truncated at the bottom thereby forming a passage for the shaft when the ball is in the cavity, a ball insertion and removal opening intersecting the cavity thereby forming a passage between the opening and the cavity for permitting the ball to be inserted into the opening and moved distally into the cavity, ball locking means supported in the passage for selective movement from an unlocked position adjacent the proximate end of the body to a locked position in engagement with the ball in the cavity, and means for selectively fixing the ball locking means in engagement with the ball.

Abstract: The treatment of blood product to inactivate or destroy infective viruses found in animal fluids and tissues, such as the cytomegalovirus, by mixing the blood product with an effective amount of glycyrrhizic triterpenoid compounds in combination with albumin is disclosed.

Abstract: A transfusion blood product container for the introduction of one or more blood products, such as whole blood, platelet concentrations, leukocyte concentrations, plasma, phasma derivatives, whole blood fractions, and combinations thereof, for transfusing the patient and an amount of one or more glycyrrhizic triterpenoid compounds sufficient to comprise from 0.05 to 10.0 wt/%, preferably from about 0.5 to about 3 wt/%, of the contents of the container when full of the blood product(s), sufficient to substantially inactivate viruses contained in the blood product introduced into said container is disclosed. One or more additional products are added to the glycyrrhizic triterpenoid compounds to produce a synergistic affect.

Abstract: A vertical-difference measuring instrument comprising an entirely closed liquid system containing, as the only fluid, only substantially noncompressive liquid, the liquid system comprising a variable-volume reference reservoir and a sensing reservoir interconnected by a flexible hose, a flexible-walled gas container in the sensing reservoir and a pressure gauge connected in fluid communication with the flexible-walled gas container in the sensing reservoir for giving indication of the vertical distance between the reference reservoir and the sensing reservoir is disclosed.