SMJ // March 1963, Volume 56 - Issue 3
Book Review
Fundamentals of Acid-Base Regulation
Book Review
Clinical Hemotology
Book Review
Analgesia and Anesthesia In Obstetrics
Book Review
Essay on the First Hundred Years of Anesthesia
Book Review
Structural Forms of Anesthetic Compounds
Editorial
A REAPPRAISAL OF ACUTE RHEUMATIC FEVER
Original Article
Medical Grand Rounds from the University of Alabama Medical Center
Original Article
Acute Sprain of the Cervical Spine
Original Article
The Management of Refractory Congestive Heart Failure
The management of intractable heart failure is not an unusual problem for the general practitioner as well as internist. Much good advice is offered in this review.
Original Article
Mycokeratitis: Treatment of Fungal Corneal Ulcers with Amphotericin B and Mechanical Debridement
The authors have had good results in instances of fungal ulcer of the cornea by mechanical debridement and the topical use of the fungistatic antibiotic.
Original Article
Vein Grafts in Otologic Surgery: With an Analysis of 127 Repairs of the Tympanum
The attempts at repair of perforations of the ear drum have been attended by a number of technical difficulties. The authors have found that grafts of vein wall have in most instances “taken” in a highly satisfactory manner.
Original Article
Eye Injuries in Industry
The author reviews the types of injury to the eye encountered in an industrial practice, diagnostic and therapeutic measures, and emphasizes the need for accurate records.
Original Article
Fixation of Living Tissue: Growth of Bone and Tissue Through Plastic Vacuoles
The authors describe experiments in the use of a plastic bonding glue for the treatment of fractures.
Original Article
Studies on the Amnionic Fluid
Determinations of levels of bilirubin and iron in the amnionic fluid have not been found helpful in predicting the severity of the hemolytic process in infants with erythroblastosis.
Original Article
Unusual Lesions of the Optic Chiasm A Report of Four Cases
These cases illustrate the confusion which may attend the differential diagnosis of disease involving the optic chiasm.
Original Article
The Morphology of the Prepubertal Ovary Relationship to the Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
In an attempt to have a better understanding of the ovary and its function in the prepubertal state, the author has made histologic studies of such ovaries. Findings similar to those of the polycystic ovary are the rule. The author then speculates upon the causes of anovulation.
Original Article
Tympanoplasty: 125 Cases Without a Cavity
The authors evaluate a number of methods which have been evolved to avoid cavity formation and to maintain sound conduction, when dealing with cholesteatoma. They believe the newer methods are successful but warn that more time may be needed to evaluate the end results especially after removal of larger cholesteatomas.
Original Article
Maternal Age and Parity in Relation to Cerebral Palsy in Their Infants
The older primigravida is less likely to have a palsied infant than a woman in any other group. The elderly multigravida is more likely to have a palsied child than is her younger sister.
Original Article
Migraine – A Diagnostic Dilemma? or Waste-Basket Syndrome?
The author considers the dangers of the diagnosis of “atypical migraine” and expresses his belief in a frequent association of such symptoms with neurologic and vascular lesions related to the region of the cervical spine.
Original Article
Median Episiotomy and Complete Perineotomy
The authors find the median episiotomy has advantages over the mediolateral type. Complications are of no greater moment.
Original Article
The Management of Prolonged Labor
The author has reviewed the accepted steps to be taken in managing a prolonged labor.
Original Article
Chymotrypsin in the Treatment of Dendritic Ulcers
This is a new method of treatment which seems to offer a more satisfactory attack upon the stubborn lesion of dendritic ulcer. It may be used in young children who otherwise need to be anesthetized before cauterizing agents may be used.
Original Article
Double Pin Fixation of Severely Comminuted Fractures of the Distal Radius and Ulna
The author recommends this method of managing the difficult comminuted fractures of the ulna and radius.
Original Article
A New and Practical Method in the Management of Fractures of the Zygomatic Complex
The author describes his method of managing fractures of this type and its advantages.
Original Article
Treatment of Parkinson’s Syndrome by Stereotaxic Technic
The treatment of Parkinsonian disease by the method described has been in use now for a number of years in various clinics of the world. Seemingly good results may be attained in a satisfactory percentage of patients.
