As advances in medicine and surgery save lives and prolong life, residual disabilities often leave a permanent handicap either physical or in terms of self-support. Rehabilitation in all its facets thus must often become a handmaiden to medicine and surgery.
The author reviews a few uncommon diseases which may occasionally be encountered in the South, either as importations or as examples of indigenous disease.
With newer surgical technics, methods of giving anesthetics, and the prophylactic use of antibiotics, the surgical treatment of esophageal diverticula is now attended by little morbidity or mortality.
The management of subarachnoid hemorrhage due to intracranial aneurysm remains a controversial one. The authors' results with surgical treatment match those of others. They discuss the methods of surgical attack.
The evaluation of methods of treatment in a condition as stubborn as acne rosacea is extremely difficult. This is illustrated by the great number of regimens and agents which have had their day in the treatment of the condition.
Unusually the shunt is right to left in instances of patent ductus arteriosus. This uncommon situation is discussed with regard to pathogenesis, physiologic effects, prognosis and treatment. Case reports illustrate the physiologic abnormalities.
The use of hysterectomy as a means of sterilization is a controversial subject and surely is not recommended for the average surgeon doing pelvic operations. If it is to be used, it is for the gynecologist who has weighed all factors in, and aspects of the decision.
The variable and unpredictable course of these tumors may be explained in terms of the experimental transplantation of tissues in animals.
The author reports his results in the use of this technic in producing an arthrodesis of the hip joint.
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