SMJ // March 1961, Volume 54 - Issue 3
Announcement
Awards of the Southern Medical Association
Book Review
The Multilingual Manual for Medical Interpreting
Book Review
Contributions to Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Book Review
Rose and Carless Manual of Surgery
Book Review
Electrical Impedance Plethysmography
Book Review
Nonpenetrating Injuries of the Abdomen
Book Review
A Short History of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Case Report
Malignant Lymphoma Involving Ovaries
Editorial
DISTURBED CHILDREN
Editorial
THE DOCTOR IN OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE
Announcement
INSTRUCTIONS TO CONTRIBUTORS
Original Article
Maternal and Fetal Plasma Levels of Anileridine During Labor
In the evaluation of a new analgesic for use during labor, it becomes mandatory that careful observations be made relative to blood levels of the drug not only in the maternal circulation but also in that of the fetus. Such a study is recorded here with a new analgesic drug.
Original Article
Potentiation of Salicylate Plasma Levels and Analgesic Action by Methocarbamol
The studies recorded here demonstrate a potentiation of salicylate level in the plasma by the simultaneous administration of methocarbamol. The evaluation of clinical results dependent upon subjective interpretation will require a much larger series of cases before scientific deductions may be drawn.
Original Article
The Round Window – The Need of A Critical Revaluation: A Preliminary Communication
An intriguing and interesting consideration of the physiologic functions in hearing, -no more need be said, since it should be read.
Original Article
The Routine Use of the Papanicolaou Smear in Pregnant Women
The efficacy of the cytologic smear from the cervix of the nonpregnant uterus has been established without argument, the same cannot be said for the smear from the cervix in the pregnant woman. The authors consider the controversy and offer their findings. They believe study of the pregnant woman should…
Original Article
Peptic Ulcers in Children
Many clinicians have failed to make a diagnosis of peptic ulceration in children. The author considers this problem and relates his experiences in the diagnosis of peptic ulcer in children.
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Indications for Surgical Treatment in Congenital Heart Disease
The family physician must school himself to recognize the place of modern surgical methods in the management of the child having congenital cardiac anomalies. It is difficult for both him and the child's parents to enter upon surgical interference in a child who seems to be doing well.
Original Article
Innocent Murmurs
Periodically the subject of murmurs needs review. This is a concise and simple consideration of the physiologic bases as well as physical characteristics of murmurs unrelated to structural abnormalities of the heart.
Original Article
Industrial Medicine as a Part of General Practice
By force of circumstances the small industrial plant cannot afford a full-time medical director. Many of the smaller industries are established in communities of moderate size. The general practitioner is a “natural” as part-time medical advisor in industry under these circumstances. Here is an interesting and challenging subspecialty.
Original Article
Mastotympanic Surgery: An Evaluation of Procedures and Results
The authors discuss those surgical technics which seem to offer the best results in terms of a dry ear and at the same time preserve or even enhance hearing.
Original Article
Anticoagulants in Coronary Disease
Many aspects of anticoagulant therapy have not been settled. The authors attempt to find answers to these in the literature. They give some of their own experiences.
Original Article
Treatment of Hemorrhoidal Thrombosis
The author considers thrombosis of hemorrhoids and presents his view of the management indicated in each type.
Original Article
Anorectal Surgery in the Elderly Patient
In all fields of surgery chronologic age per se is no longer the prime consideration in the denial of surgical treatment to the older patient. Rather it is the presence or absence or extent of systemic disorders which set the limits to the operative procedures.
Original Article
Recent Trends in Thyroid Surgery
The past decade has seen drastic changes in thinking by many relative to the nonsurgical versus the surgical management of thyroid disease. The controversy may not be settled for some years. The authors present their views on this subject.
Original Article
Six Hundred Conversion Reactions: Age, Sex, Race, Marital Status, Religion and Residence by Population
The author has analyzed the cases of conversion reaction by diagnostic categories and also by other factors which might seem to influence their development.
Original Article
Drug Interaction in Anesthesia
Original Article
Surgical Treatment of Psychomotor Epilepsy: Five Year Follow-up
The author reports satisfactory results in a goodly proportion of patients having psychomotor epilepsy and in whom anterior temporal lobectomy had been done.
Original Article
Unsuspected Carcinoma in Surgical Specimens of the Prostate
By systematic rather than sectioning at random, many more instances of cancer of the prostate are found in surgical specimens. The mortality rate is higher in those suspected clinically of having cancer than in those not suspect.
Original Article
Progress in Certification of Child Psychiatrists
Original Article
Biologic False Positive Reactions for Syphilis
The development of more specific serologic tests, especially those using treponemal antigens, has been of great aid in the evaluation of the reactive routine, screening “blood tests” for syphilis. Though biologic false positive reactions may be highly significant, it should not be forgotten that a positive test raises the diagnosis…
