SMJ // July 1962, Volume 55 - Issue 7
Book Review
Surgery of the Acute Abdomen
Book Review
Biology of Pyelonephritis
Book Review
Medical Entomology
Book Review
Kranz Manual of Kinesiology
Book Review
A Manual for Nuclear Medicine
Book Review
Clinical Disorders of the Pulmonary Circulation
Book Review
The Transplantation of Tissues and Organs
Book Review
Physical Signs in Clinical Surgery
Book Review
Gouty Arthritis and Gout
Book Review
Medieval and Renaissance Medicine
Book Review
Differential Diagnosis of Yaws
Book Review
Hypnosis in Skin and Allergic Diseases
Book Review
Roentgenology of Intracranial Meningiomas
Book Review
Intraspinal Tumors of Childhood
Case Report
A New Treatment of Fox-Fordyce Disease
Case Report
Myxedema with Coma: Case Report
Editorial
HEALTH CARE FOR THE CHRONICALLY ILL
Original Article
Injection Treatment of Internal Hemorrhoids
The treatment of internal hemorrhoids by injection has fallen into disrepute because of its ill-advised use by the unskilled. This paper reconsiders its use under circumstances which are well defined.
Original Article
Home Care Treatment in Arthritis
If doctors would emphasize the proper management of the arthritic patient from a physical standpoint, and de-emphasize cortisone and all other drugs and regard them as adjuncts in treatment, this country would have fewer cripples—given cooperative patients.
Original Article
Idiopathic Myocardial Hypertrophy
Though this entity has been known for some time, it is only in recent years that increasing interest has been developed in its diagnosis and study.
Original Article
Herniated Intervertebral Lumbar Disks Operated Upon: A Follow-Up Study of Some 200 Cases
The authors describe their results from surgical treatment of the herniated disk in patients whose course they followed personally.
Original Article
Allergies of the Oral Cavity Including Delineation of a New Symptom-Complex of Physical Allergy about the Commissures
The buccol mucosa may be the site of allergic reactions for obvious anatomic and physiologic reasons. Many are of contact origin.
Original Article
Lumbar Disk Surgery in Patients Over 50 Years of Age
The author demonstrates that age does not disbar the patient from surgery in the treatment of the lumbar disk syndrome if the indications exist. He finds no ready answer to the almost uniformly good results.
Original Article
The Effects of Radiation Therapy on the Ear: With Particular Reference to Radiation Otitis Media
In the massive irradiation of malignant bearing tissues, attention must also be directed to changes in contiguous structures. The deleterious effects of such therapy upon the ear are discussed in this paper.
Original Article
Hysterectomy at Tulane
The authors, after an eight year experience with the use of total hysterectomy only (either by the abdominal or vaginal route), believe there is no excuse for the subtotal hysterectomy in modern gynecologic surgery. They discuss indications for hysterectomy in the younger women, and have shown a low incidence of…
Original Article
Psychology, Organicity, and “Whiplash”
The authors consider the dual role of psychiatric disturbance and simultaneous organic disease of the central nervous system. Difficulties in differential diagnosis are obvious, but such an association may occur more frequently than suspected.
Original Article
Clinicopathologic Conferences Duke University School of Medicine
Original Article
The Public Health Nurse in Physical and Preventive Medicine
The author describes a well-functioning visiting nurse program as sponsored by a community and a health department, under the direction of the local physicians. This type of agency is being adopted more and more by communities, and may be predicted to become a necessity because of rising hospital costs, an…
Original Article
Diiodohydroxyquin in Seborrheic Dermatitis
Original Article
Mythical Sphenopalatine Ganglion Neuralgia
Original Article
Complications of Glaucoma Surgery
The author has reviewed his technics and experiences in the surgical treatment of glaucoma.
Original Article
Reflections on Tonometry and Glaucoma
The author makes a plea for continued use of the time-tried instrument for use in the diagnosis and management of glaucoma. He emphasizes the value of the Schi&phgr;tz instrument.
Original Article
Coexistence of Renal Neoplasms and Renal Cysts
The authors, by their clinical material, show that the differentiation between neoplasm and cyst may be uncertain. Their case reports point to malignant disease even if a cystic lesion seems certain, and that a new growth may accompany a cyst. They believe, unless clear-cut contraindications exist, that surgical exploration provides…
Original Article
Sudden Inner Ear Deafness After Stapedectomy: A Surgical Emergency
Original Article
The Energy Needs for Ambulation in Disabled Persons
This offers a most sensible evaluation of that fetish “to be able to walk”—the objective of all too many doctors and, universally, of members of the family of the physically handicapped person. How many physicians consider the expenditure of energy in their rehabilitative efforts?
Original Article
Rehabilitation in Concept and in Practice
The concept of rehabilitation for the completion of total and adequate medical care has not penetrated into the mind of the average doctor as he manages his patient. He is mainly concerned with curative or symptomatic treatment. Much education within the medical profession is needed before rehabilitation as a philosophic…
