SMJ // December 1960, Volume 53 - Issue 12
Acknowledgement
BOOKS RECEIVED
Author Index
AUTHOR INDEX
Book Review
Transportation of the Injured
Book Review
Pathophysiology in Surgery
Book Review
Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease
Book Review
Breast Cancer
Book Review
Handbook of Poisoning Diagnosis and Treatment
Book Review
Textbook of Surgery
Book Review
Chemical Micromethods in Clinical Medicine
Book Review
Practical Neurological Diagnosis
Book Review
Histoplasmosis
Book Review
Basic Facts of Body Water and Ions
Book Review
Microchemical Methods for Blood Analysis
Book Review
Carcinoma of the Thyroid Gland
Book Review
Synopsis of Ophthalmology
Book Review
Surgical Gastroenterology
Book Review
Neurochemistry of Epilepsy
Case Report
Toxic Hyperplasia of the Prostate
The author wonders if chronic prostatitis and its accompanying symptoms and signs represent more than the results of poor sexual hygiene and practices, and whether absorption into the blood stream of prostatic secretion under pressure may explain the clinical picture and its rapid relief by prostatic massage.
Case Report
Comparative Effects of Rauwolfia Serpentina, Phenobarbital and Placebo in the Same Hypertensive Patients in Office Practice – A Controlled Drug Assay
First, this study demonstrates that good clinical research can be carried on in the private practitioner’s office. Secondly, it puts a certain antihypertensive drug in its proper perspective, showing that it apparently has definite effectiveness but that this effect is not invariable because of differing responses in different patients,—an important…
Editorial
SOUTHERN SOCIETY FOR PEDIATRIC RESEARCH
Editorial
Dr. Ernest Goodpasture – An Appreciation
Announcement
INSTRUCTIONS TO CONTRIBUTORS
Original Article
Sensitivity of Reiter Protein Complement Fixation and Standard Serologic Tests Comparison and Correlation with Clinical Findings in Syphilis
It has been shown that the complement test done with the Reiter protein has greater specificity than tests done with the antigens made from the beef heart. When a positive test has once been established in the course of a syphilitic infection, this test offers just about the same information…
Original Article
The Relative Efficiency of Sun Tan Lotions
The author points out the great difficulties in a fair evaluation of materials such as those studied. This leaves much room for bias. The reader must also realize that manufacturers of cosmetics frequently change the ingredients and thus the product may be entirely different at a moment's notice.
Original Article
Pneumothorax in Infants and Children
The recognition of spontaneous pneumothorax in infants and young children is at times more difficult than in adults, but equally, if not more, important. It is almost always readily managed and may of course be lifesaving if recognized and treated especially if it is of the “tension” variety.
Original Article
Plastic Reconstruction for Exstrophy of the Urinary Bladder
The operations of the past, anastomosis of the ureters to the intestinal tract and the like, have no place in modern surgery. Today successful operations to close the organ, anatomic defects, and obtain a normal lower urinary tract, are available. The author has had excellent results.
Original Article
The Experimental Approach to the Problems of Retrograde Selective Visualization of the Abdominal Arteries
Advances in cardiovascular surgery provide a constant stimulus to perfection of technics. The authors describe their experimental studies in an attempt to obtain satisfactory selective visualization and with safety.
Original Article
Sequestration of the Lung
Pulmonary anomalies are better understood now in the days of thoracic surgery. Their origin, the aberrant blood supply and the type of pulmonary tissue are all of interest. The interpretation of roentgenograms presenting such anomalies is essential in treatment and prognosis.
Original Article
Novobiocin in Allergy
Original Article
Vesiculoprostatostasis – A Clinical Entity
Chronic inflammation of the prostate gland and/or seminal vesicles is not necessarily of infectious origin. Rather they are manifestations of chronic congestion either because of unphysiologic sexual practices or more commonly from thwarted sex drives. The author considers the clinical picture, diagnosis and treatment. It is well for the family…
Original Article
A Rational Approach to the Treatment of Chronic Prostatitis
It is, indeed, most satisfying to read of a urologist's approach to a common set of complaints in a more rational manner than the mechanistic therapeutic arrack still commonly practiced. A clinician, who has taken the time and has had the curiosity to obtain complete histories from patients with the…
Original Article
The Diagnosis of Myotonia Dystrophica
The diagnosis of this neurologic disease is not as evident as is generally thought. The cases illustrate some of these features.
Original Article
Demonstration and Localization of Valvular Calcification by Planigraphy
In these days of cardiac surgery and possible attack on the diseased aortic valve, the establishment of the diagnosis of aortic stenosis becomes paramount. Additional information to that furnished by physical examination is desirable. The demonstration of calcification of the aortic valve may be of aid in the over-all evaluation,…
Original Article
Subarachnoid Neoplasia incidence and Problems of Diagnosis
Certain tumors of the central nervous system tend to exfoliate cells into the spinal fluid. It is possible to recognize the source of cells so obtained. However, the utmost need exists for very close liaison between the clinician and the laboratory since the material must be fixed, stained and studied…
Original Article
The Use of Left Heart Catheterization in the Study of Acquired Heart Disease
Though Catheterization of the right heart via the venous route has become a well-established procedure over the past fifteen years, there was no direct means of obtaining information concerning the left side of the heart Several methods have had trial in recent years. One by the trans-thoracic needle, one by…
Original Article
Chronic Portal Systemic Encephalopathy
It has been recognized in recent years that the cerebral manifestations in patients with portal cirrhosis result from elevation of blood ammonia to well above the normal levels. Shunting procedures permit enhancement of this process of encephalopathy.
Original Article
Tendon Transplants in the Wrist Following Nerve Injury
The authors describe their methods in attaining good results in a high proportion of cases in which operation was done.
