Article
Management of Rheumatoid Arthritis
The authors have summarized the management of rheumatoid arthritis with use of the tools available today. They have indicated the sequence in which these are to be used and the indications for their use.
SMJ // March 1969, Volume 62 - Issue 3
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Abdominal Trauma
Article
North American Blastomycosis: A Survey of 63 Cases
The review of clinical material from North Carolina points up unanswered questions in epidemiology. The almost equal distribution of pulmonary and cutaneous involvement, and the effectiveness of the more recent therapeutic agents bring up to date important items in diagnosis and treatment.
Article
School Phobia in the Southern Appalachian Region: Crucial Importance of Early Treatment
Every family physician, every pediatrician and every psychiatrist faces periodically the child who has a phobia about school which may seriously interfere with his education. For practical purposes it is a physician who will need to make the decisions and advise the family as to how to meet the dilemma….
Article
Training of Ambulance Personnel
The immediate care given the injured person may be critical to the saving of life. North Carolina, through the organized effort of both public and private agencies, has evolved a means of providing early management of the injured by trained personnel, both at the scene of the accident and during…
Article
A Pubovaginal Silastic Device for Incontinence: Preliminary Report
The author has offered a solution for a serious disability often unsuccessfully treated by operative procedures. If continued experience with the described device is favorable, its originator has provided a boon for those living miserably with incontinence.
Article
Retinal Vascular Responses to Nitrites, Nitrates, and Cigarette Smoking
The authors have applied the newer technics in photography of retinal vessels for the study of pharmacologic effects of drugs upon blood vessels. The vasodilating and vasoconstricting effects of nitroglycerin and cigarette smoking respectively are of borderline statistical significance but overall results are not conclusive.
Article
Incidence of Thrombosis in Portal Venous Stasis and Hypertension
Venous stasis and hypertension usually have been accepted as the factors predisposing to venous thrombosis in the portal vein. The authors question this concept from a study of thrombosis in the portal venous system in patients having hepatic disease.
Article
Changing Moral Concepts
Anyone with historical perspective recognizes that morality is not an immutable attribute of society. This penetrating analysis of today's social changes has profound medical implications. No matter what the reader's reaction, favorable or unfavorable, he cannot deny that relationships—interpersonal, within the family or the group—in a changing social pattern may…
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Infections and Pregnancy: A Review
This valuable review of infections in pregnancy summarizes current knowledge of transplacental transmission of infectious agents and their possible effects upon the fetus. Not only is attention given to prenatal infection but also to the teratogenetic effects, especially of viral infections. The latter especially is an area of intensive investigation….
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Awards of the Southern Medical Association
Nominations are now being accepted for Awards of the Southern Medical Association. Details on each Award are given below.
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Partial Pelvectomy for Sarcomas of the Lower Extremity
A simplified technic for the management of large malignant tumors of the thigh and pelvic area is presented. This demonstrates favorable results in a small group of patients.
Article
Somatic Concomitants of Depression
The authors emphasize that contrary to common belief, depression is not only a characteristic of one phase of manic depressive psychosis but of other conditions as well. It is a not unusual symptom in other psychoses, in psychoneurosis and in “normal” persons upon occasion. Lack of recognition of depression when…
Book Review
The Metabolic Basis of Inherited Disease
Book Review
The Extremities
Book Review
Ophthalmic Eponyms
Book Review
Aphasia in Adults
Book Review
A Happier Sex Life
Case Report
Femorosaphenous Arteriovenous Shunt for Hemodialysis
By force of circumstances the authors needed to resort to the construction of an arteriovenous shunt involving larger vessels than has been customary in the past. They describe a successful operation to permit continued hemodialysis.
Case Report
Pancreatitis in Infectious Mononucleosis
Editorial
Willis E. Brown – An Appreciation
Editorial
Recertification or Relicensure?
Article
The Current Treatment of Severe Chest Injuries
Accounts of traffic and highway accidents fill the newspapers. Now are added riots and their accompanying injuries. The emergency rooms of hospitals are busy places these days. Life often hangs upon doing just the right thing at the proper moment, and again upon not doing too much or too quickly….
