sarmiento functional treatment of humeral shaft fractures results and experiences functional treatment according to sarmiento was applied to 20 cases of humerus shaft fracture in the course of three years all fractures healed with good functional result the approach proved to be effective functional treatment using brace was indicated even for fractures in the proximal or distal third of the humerus or in cases of complete failure of the n radialis the authors results are described and discussed use of a mixed cell suspension obtained from the livers of different rats for cytological studies the possibility of employing a mixed suspension of isolated liver cells from several rats for estimation of some quantitative characters commonly used in cytological investigations was studied it is demonstrated that the disaggregation rate of liver in different animals varies slightly and the mean values of the parametres studied the proportion of dividing and binucleated cell obtained from individual animals coincides well with those of the mixed suspension