SMJ // June 1967, Volume 60 - Issue 6
Case Report
Spigelian Hernia in a Child
Clinical Brief
Testape Tear Test: Quantitative Measurement of Lacrimation
Editorial
A LOOK INTO THE FUTURE
Original Article
A Reasoned Approach to Vesicoureteral Reflux in Children
Original Article
Hippocratic Proctology
Original Article
Vasculitis With or Without Panniculitis In Leukemia, Lymphoma, and Multiple Myeloma
Vasculitis of the subcutis and/or panniculus is commonly associated with systemic disease as a manifestation of autoimmunity. Its presence in instances of the diseases considered here raises interesting questions of pathogenesis. May mutant cells of the host act as an antigen to stimulate antibody response and thus autoimmunity?
Original Article
Common Skin Neoplasms of Domestic Animals
Tumors of animals have long had interest for the oncologist, pathologist, microbiologist and geneticist. Research in the pathogenesis of malignant diseases has had, upon occasion, its inception in veterinary medicine. This review should be of interest to those working in the field of neoplastic growth.
Original Article
Use of Neohydrin Scans and Roentgenograms in Evaluation of Renal Hypertension
The authors propose the correlation of renal blood flow and renal mass, by scanning injected Hg203 and roentgenographic determination of the renal area, to evaluate the cause of hypertension. They believe this may offer a method of selecting patients for the surgical treatment of hypertension.
Original Article
Current Surgical Management of Diverticulitis
The authors emphasize that an aging population will enhance the probability of the development of the dangerous complications which may accompany diverticulitis. They evaluate their experiences with the surgical management of diverticulitis, pointing to possibly an earlier surgical attack to avoid serious complications and multiple stage operations.
Original Article
Prostatic Cancer and Irradiation Its Possible Mode of Action and its Clinical Indication
Based upon biochemical and metabolic studies of prostatic cancer cells, the authors have arrived at a rationale of irradiation treatment of prostatic cancer as related to the differentiation or lack of differentiation of the malignant cells. This rationale has been borne out in experimental treatment.
Original Article
Bladder Neck Revision in Children Description of Technique
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Approaches to Narcotic Addiction In Private Practice
The author believes that norcotic addiction can be successfully treated in private practice and even on an ambulatory basis.
Original Article
Sex Seminars With Medical Students
In recent years educators both in psychiatry and gynecology have directed attention to the need for sex education in the medical curriculum to prepare the physician to counsel adequately in regard to sexuality. Education and clinical research in this sphere have lagged by two generations behind every other aspect of…
Original Article
Corneoscleral Lacerations and Their Management
The author evaluates the type of injury and the method of treatment as related to the ultimate prognosis in terms of vision. Prompt and adequate management is a basic factor in attaining good results.
Original Article
Posterior Dislocation and Posterior Fracture Dislocation of the Shoulder A Report of 25 Cases
These lesions may be overlooked quite easily. The author emphasizes diagnosis and recommends methods of treatment dependent upon circumstances and the pathogenesis of the disability.
Original Article
Sex and Marriage
The author has set an example of how one may strike down the sexual inhibitions which plague many, even happily married couples. Too few physicians find it easy even to overcome their own inhibitions on this score, as any consultant knows from his history taking. Though one hears much talk…
Original Article
The Heart in Chronic Pulmonary Histoplasmosis
The authors present evidence that cor pulmonale is not an uncommon accompaniment of the fibrosis characteristic of chronic pulmonary histoplasmosis.
Original Article
The Emerging Picture of Occupational Psychiatry in the South
The author believes that psychiatry must use its technics and knowledge on a broader scale than for individual patients only, thereby to influence citizens in better industrial relationships, the better to use their capabilities, and to plan for retirement.
Original Article
Some Aspects of End-Organ Failure in Menstrual Disorders and Infertility
Post-traumatic intrauterine adhesions and scarring are demonstrated as causes at times of amenorrhea, other menstrual disorders, and infertility. The use of hysterography may offer diagnostic assistance.
Original Article
Apomorphine in the Management of Accidental Ingestion of Poisons
Accidental poisoning constitutes a major cause of death in young children. This study indicates that an “old” drug, apomorphine, may be quite useful and safe as a means of inducing vomiting in the prophylactic management.
Original Article
Fractures of the Mandible: A New Concept in Management
The authors make a plea for open reduction of fractures of the mandible using a technic which eliminates the morbidity of wiring the teeth in occlusion.
Original Article
The Activated Partial Thromboplastin Time as a Control in Heparin Therapy
The Lee-White clotting time as a control for heparin therapy lacks the accuracy and dependability of the prothrombin time in evaluation of Dicumerol therapy. The authors report their preliminary results of the determination of activated partial thromboplastin time for control of heparin therapy.
