SMJ // November 1940, Volume 33 - Issue 11
Article
THE USE AND ABUSE OF THEOPHYLLINE AND ITS DERIVATIVES
The use of theophylline and its derivatives is becoming more general as the application of these drugs to disease states is more clearly understood. Their importance in the therapeutic armamentarium is such that we have felt it advisable to attempt a general review of the literature and to discuss the…
Book Review
Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Article
THE CAUSE AND PREVENTION OF THE LOSS OF TEETH
Summary(1) The diseases, dental caries and periodontoclasia, from which practically all loss of teeth occurs, are present and active in most people.(2) Dental decay is due to the harmful effects of acids produced by bacterial decomposition of food which is retained on and between the teeth.(3) Periodontoclasia is due to…
Article
PLACENTA ACCRETA CASE REPORT
Book Review
Modern Medical Therapy in General Practice
Article
ISOLATED BILATERAL FRACTURE OF THE FIRST RIB CASE WITH UNILATERAL HORNER’S SYNDROME
Isolated fracture of the first rib has been so infrequently reported that Breslin1 (1937), who added 5 cases of his own, was able to collect only 27 other instances of this injury from the world literature. Since then Out-land and Hanlon2 (1938) have reported a case, and the foreign literature…