SMJ // November 1965, Volume 58 - Issue 11
Book Review
Craig and Faust’s Clinical Parasitology
Book Review
Principles of Public Health Administration
Book Review
The Practice of Refraction
Book Review
Orthopedic Surgery in Infancy and Childhood
Book Review
Fundamentals of Medical Education
Book Review
Current Practice in Orthopaedic Surgery
Book Review
Handbook of Orthopaedic Surgery
Book Review
A Primer of Cardiology
Book Review
Nursing Care of Patients With Urologic Diseases
Book Review
Search the Scriptures
Book Review
Night Vision
Book Review
External Infections of the Eye
Book Review
A History of Wine as Therapy
Book Review
Cecil-Loeb Textbook of Medicine
Case Report
Goodpasture’s Syndrome
Case Report
Congenital Choanal Atresia
Original Article
Treatment of Wringer Injuries in Children
The method of treatment described gave good results in 100 consecutive cases.
Original Article
The Temporary Hanging Hip Procedure: A Preliminary Report
The authors have found this operation for degenerative disease an easy one technically, and one which is well tolerated.
Original Article
Torsion of the Adnexa: Experience with 15 Cases
The clinical picture is reviewed for this unusual circumstance. There is speculation as to possible causes. Treatment is surgical.
Original Article
Radiologic Evaluation of Early Postoperative Abdominal Complaints
The complications of abdominal origin after operations in this region are relatively common. Diagnosis of the cause can be difficult. The radiologist at times may be most helpful in arriving at a definite conclusion as to the cause of these complications.
Original Article
Treatment of Vesicoureteral Reflux in Children: A Study of 52 Cases
The early recognition of this condition in children is important in the avoidance of possible serious renal disease at a later date. Obstruction in the urethra or vesical neck is more common in girls. Treatment is surgical and relatively simple.
Original Article
Current Status of Supravesical Urinary Diversion
Though not ideal, the diversion of the urinary stream into an ileal loop seems the best method presently available in the exigencies requiring this type of surgery. Its advantages outweigh those of other technics.
Original Article
Proctology in Ancient Egypt: Its Continuing Influence on the Management of Anorectal Diseases
We as busy doctors do not pause frequently enough to consider our medical heritage. We become too engrossed in today’s scientific medicine to recognize how much of our treatment had its beginnings in the hands of observant physicians in the dim past.
Original Article
Multiple Primary Malignancies in the Head and Neck: Our Experiences Over the Past Twelve Years
The authors review the interesting subject of the occurrence of multiple primary carcinomas in the upper respiratory tract. They warn of the need to be aware of this possibility so that diagnosis and treatment may be definitive.
Original Article
The Emergency Mental Health Service: An Important Contribution to Preventive Medicine
This paper points so well to the increasing need of the team-approach to meet a community’s health problems. An emergency service such as this is taking up the slack in the lag between developing knowledge and its application.
Original Article
Medical Grand Rounds from the University of Alabama Medical Center
Original Article
Extrahepatic Portal Obstruction in Infants and Children: Diagnosis, Treatment and Long-term Follow-up
Whether congenital or acquired, the treatment of extrahepatic portal obstruction poses technical difficulties because of the smallness of the anatomic structures. Shunt operations must be postponed until a later age.
Original Article
Complications of Abdominoperineal Resection
The authors in reviewing the complications of radical surgery for carcinoma of the rectum emphasize the special importance of adequate preparation of the patient, careful attention to blood loss at the time of operation and adequate preparation of the colostomy.
Original Article
The Problem of Gram-Negative Bacteremia and Its Management
It is now common to encounter instances of bacteremia caused by gram-negative organisms. The authors review possible reasons for the increased incidence, the characteristic manifestations of shock, and the therapeutic aspects in general. They outline their management of cases while awaiting definitive information from cultures and sensitivity tests.
Original Article
The Systematic Uterine Curettage
The author makes a plea for an adequate curettage as a diagnostic maneuver. He shows that at least 90 percent of the uterine mucosa can be removed by proper and systematic curettage.
Original Article
Cancer of the Lip in a Large Charity Hospital
The authors analyze the 5 year cure rates as attained in this one institution. Factors of age and race have been considered as well as evidence of metastatic disease.
Southern Medical News
Southern Medical News
Article
Problems in Pyelonephritis
That pyelonephritis is a serious disease is universally accepted. However, it is a disease about which there is much controversy with respect to the weight to be accorded to bacteriuria, anatomic and physiologic abnormalities of the lower genitourinary tract, symptomatology and apparent results of therapy. This Symposium reviews the knowledge…
Article
Cataract Extraction Combined with Scleral Cauterization
A series of papers have pointed to the introduction of new technics, new instruments and the application of old midalities in operations for the removal of the cataractous lens. Time will await the role of some of these methods in terms of general or specific indications.
