SMJ // June 1960, Volume 53 - Issue 6
Book Review
Symposium on Glaucoma
Book Review
The Pharmacology and Clinical Use of Diuretics
Book Review
The Law of Medical Pratice
Book Review
Clark’s Applied Pharmacology
Book Review
Rehabilitation Medicine
Book Review
Sex Perversions and Sex Crimes
Book Review
Surgery of the Foot
Book Review
A Short Practice of Surgery
Book Review
Pioneer Surgeons of the Woman’s Hospital
Book Review
The Sexual Criminal – A Psychoanalytical Study
Book Review
Glaucoma
Case Report
Ventricular Aneurysm
With more patients having had a severe myocardial infarction and subsequent recovery, the rare lesion of ventricular aneurysm may be encountered more often in the coming years. Of particular interest is the surgical attack, feasible in some instances, upon this lesion.
Editorial
VESICOURETERAL REGURGITATION
Announcement
INTRUCTIONS TO CONTRIBUTORS
Southern Medical News
SOUTHERN MEDICAL NEWS
Original Article
Roentgen Demonstration of Nonopaque Ureteral Calculi
About one out of ten ureteral calculi is nonpaque. Such stones, therefore pose a diagnostic problem both to the clinician and radiologist. Any aid which can be given may be essential in diagnosis. This paper considers the radiologic diagnosis.
Original Article
The Management of Skeletal Fractures in the Patient with a Head Injury
Automobile accidents by their very nature often cause severe and multiple injuries. The authors emphasize the need for proper care of the severe injuries, other than those of the musculoskeletal system, first, and postpone treatment of most of the skeletal to a later time after the physical state of the…
Original Article
Tuberculosis of the Mesenteric and Retroperitoneal Lymph Nodes Simulating Neoplasm
Tuberculosis of the infra-abdominal lymph nodes is usually not considered in today's diagnoses in abdominal disease. That it still occurs is shown by the cases reported here.
Original Article
Tetanus Protection
The efficacy of immunization against tetanus with the toxoid has been firmly established more than two decades ago. Yet the tetanus mortality rate in the South lags far behind that of other areas of the country. Until something is done about this in our area the statistics probably will not…
Original Article
Prosthetics in the Surgical Repair of the Sound Conduction Mechanism and the Middle Ear Cavity
The author describes his technics in tympanoplasty and tuboplasty.
Original Article
A New Type of Water Dermatitis in Louisiana
A number of causes of “creeping eruption” are known and recognized in the southern states. However, one indigenous to the Louisiana swamps, though spoken of in colloquial terms by the residents of the area, has not been recognized as an entity until now. The authors describe Strongyloides myopotami, from the…
Original Article
Studies on Fat Mobilization During Acute States of Arousal
Most physicians have an unclear concept of just where fat fits into the metabolic scheme and often think of fat stores as more or less deposits of inert tissue. Current studies indicate an intimate relationship between the autonomic nervous system and the mobilization and storage of fat.
Original Article
Diabetes and Carcinoma of the Pancreas
The incidence of carcinoma of the pancreas in diabetics has long been known to be higher than in the population at large. This lesion should be suspected if weight loss appears in spite of satisfactory regulation of the diabetes. Diabetes developing in a middle-aged person who has no family history…
Original Article
A Newer Concept in the Treatment of Peripheral Nerve Injuries and Paralysis
The author describes the use of the exponential current as an adjunct in the treatment of denervated muscle.
Original Article
Acute Gout During Chlorothiazide Therapy
The possible elevation of levels of serum uric acid by chlorothiazide has been recognized. The precipitation of acute episodes of gout in the predisposed individual has been demonstrated in the two cases reported here.
Original Article
The Physiatrist as a Physician and as an Administrator
Original Article
Scintillation Scanning of the Liver
This paper calls attention to a new method of obtaining both anatomic and physiologic facts about the liver. Refinements of this technic may well permit the development of a valuable diagnostic tool.
Original Article
Fractures of the Forearm in Adults
To get a good functional result in fractures of both bones of the forearm, open reduction and fixation by plate or intramedullary nail seem to offer the best results in terms of few instances of nonunion and synostosis.
Original Article
Studies of Lipid Absorption and Utilization in Normal and Pathologic Conditions
Electron microscopy is a tool which permits visual exploration of the inner structure of the cell. With its application more is being learned concerning intracellular physiologic processes, and by contrast pathologic processes as well.
Original Article
Hemorrhoidectomy Causes and Prevention of Unsatisfactory Results
The unsatisfactory results of hemorrhoidectomy are entirely too high, and of course are due to improper technic or an inadequate operation. The author estimates such results as occurring in some 20 per cent of cases subsequently seen by him. He outlines the common errors made which lead to unsatisfactory postoperative…
Original Article
Management of Abdominal Aorticoiliac Aneurysms Associated with Occlusive Arterial Disease A Study of 31 Operative Cases
Morbidity and mortality rates are clearly higher when the surgeon is dealing with a patient who has, in addition to an aneurysm of the abdominal aorta, occlusive vascular disease distal to the aneurysm. He needs to give especial thought to certain items in the surgical management of these patients if…
Original Article
STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION MEETINGS
Original Article
Treatment of Discrepancy in Leg Length
The problem of management of a difference in the length of one lower extremity in a growing child is difficult. It involves the estimation of anticipated growth, and measures to retard growth on the healthy side. This requires discrimination.
Original Article
The Rationale of the Physiatric Management of Arthritis: Rheumatoid, Osteoarthritis and Marie-Strümpell Arthritis
The disabilities attendant upon progression of the several forms of arthritis may be at least partially controlled by continued and proper methods of physiotherapy. It must be begun before permanent changes minimize the possible benefits.
