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SummaryIn 20 people picked up from a radiological out patients department where they had be sent for radioscopy of the lungs, a radiography of the heart was taken just before the intake of one liter of water, another picture was taken in the same conditions 40 minutes later.The time of exposure was sufficient to include a total systolic and diastolic period. For that reason the obtained shadow was that of the heart during the diastolic repletion of the heart cavities.By measuring three diameters of the heart on each of the pictures before and after ingestion of water, it was observed that the 3 diameters of the heart increased by drinking water of 5,31 %, 4,84 % and 4,11 % as an average.An increase of 5 % of the diameters would indicate an increase of the cardiac volume of 15 % if admitted that the heart was spheric. When the increase of the 3 diameters was maximum (about 10 %) the increase of the total volume would be 33 %.Although this method does not allow an exact measure of the volume increase after intake of water, these observations completly agree with those of Govaerts and Lequime, on the cardiac output after intake of water.

ISSN:1784-3286    

DOI:10.1080/17843286.1947.11716418

出版商:Taylor&Francis    

年代:1947

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SummaryImmobility in plaster, continuous stretching by a Kirschmer thread, anesthetic infiltration of the ligaments are three surgical methods which all aim at the same end and which all obtain the same result : suppression of the muscular contraction which is always present in inflammatory lesions of the joints.Facts show that if muscular contraction is abolished, involution of the inflammatory process and local reparation is favoured. Osteogenesis is started.These physiopathological modifications can only be the consequence of the restoration of a normal circulation. Excluding germ virulence, the physiopathology of inflammatory lesions of articulations may be so described.The microbic focus in the articulation determines a local irritation which induces a reflex contraction of the muscles. This in its turn, brings forth local vasomotor disturbances (capillary stasis ?) which increase the local irritation and favour the formation of a septic focus by considerably reducing local defenses brought by the blood stream. Bearing in mind this reflex mecanism of vasomotor reactions, one can understand the inflammatory susceptibility of the joints, the rapid extension of microbic foci and their early influence on the patient’s health.

ISSN:1784-3286    

DOI:10.1080/17843286.1947.11716419

出版商:Taylor&Francis    

年代:1947

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SummaryMyxœdema is characterised by the total absence of a hypertensive response to adrenalin. Under influence of the treatment with thyroïdine the sensibility to adrenalin is increased in direct relation to the degree of impregnation of the organism with thyroïd hormone. These facts support the opinion that the thyroïd hormone determines the sensibility of the organism to the activity of the orthosympathetic system.

ISSN:1784-3286    

DOI:10.1080/17843286.1947.11716420

出版商:Taylor&Francis    

年代:1947

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SummaryAuthor has studied from a statistical point of view the results obtained in normal people when determining the number of blood platlets by a procedure described by Van Herwerden en Van Goidsenhoven.In 50 subjects of both sexes the following results have been obtained ; average value 269.400 : standard deviation 53.700 : physiological range from 376.800 to 162.000; extreme values 430.000 and 142.000.The average value is the same in men and women.In women however the results are somewhat more spread than in men. This is specially true just before the catamenia.To be significant the difference in two platlets counts has to be larger than 17 % of their mean value.

ISSN:1784-3286    

DOI:10.1080/17843286.1947.11716421

出版商:Taylor&Francis    

年代:1947

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SummaryThe author suggests a new treatment of the cystic disease of the breasts (Reclus disease), reserved exclusively to the cases in which the clinical diagnose is certain or proved by means of a biopsy.The punction of the cysts, followed by scleroserum injections, avoids repeated surgical interventions and the appearance of disgraceful sears able to awake doubts in the physician’s mind.The implantation, in the gland itself, of testosterone pellets permits the prolonged administration of a high dosage of the hormone and is useful in stopping the progress of the disease.

ISSN:1784-3286    

DOI:10.1080/17843286.1947.11716422

出版商:Taylor&Francis    

年代:1947

数据来源: Taylor

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SummaryAuthors have treated six cases of leukæmia and two cases of lymphomas with urethane as proposed by Paterson and al. 3 gr. of the drug were given a day.In the cases of leukæmia a decrease of the while cells count has been observed while the amount of red cells increased at the same time. The bone marrow showed a decrease of the immature granulocytes.The spleen decreased in size. The results were not so good in the cases of lymphoma.There is no doubt that this new therapy is useful.

ISSN:1784-3286    

DOI:10.1080/17843286.1947.11716423

出版商:Taylor&Francis    

年代:1947

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Summary334 cases of therapeutical pneumothorax have been examined after interruption of the pneumothorax.The beat results have been observed in those cases where a total pulmonary collaps had been obtained.Pleural adhesions must be cut off and if this procedure cannot be used, the pneumothorax must be left. Other surgical procedures are available in those cases such as thoracoplastie or extrapleural pneumothorax.

ISSN:1784-3286    

DOI:10.1080/17843286.1947.11716424

出版商:Taylor&Francis    

年代:1947

数据来源: Taylor

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SummaryThe use of volatile and gaseous anesthetics, of alkaloïds of opium and belladonna, ami of barbiturates, has not given to the obstetricans the results they expected in the domain of the obstetrical analgesia.Methods of blocking the semsory fibres coming from the uterus have been applied.The blocking at the height of the inferior anti superior hypogastric plexus remained without, result.Obstetricans limited themselves to the use of spinal anesthesia, caudal analgesia, and lumbar sympathetic infiltration, in most of the cases.The methods are not elective enough to allow the precise determination of the pathways of the nervous fibres to the uterus, and the most favorable place for their infiltration.Experimental observation has demonstrated that spinal anesthesia inferior to L1was useless, and that it was without influence upon the motricity of the uterus, if it did not reach the level D9.Similar observations have been made by Cleeland, among others, by using continuous caudal analgesia.The danger of spinal and caudal anesthesia are such, that, for the time being, we don’t make use of the bilateral lumbar sympathetic infiltration, as usual method of obstetrical analgesia.We make use of that infiltration at the level of L1, L2with 20 cc. of a solution of percaïne at 1°/°°.The study of 215 infiltrations demonstrated following points :1°Analgesia is perfect in 88,2 % of the cases.2°Duration of analgesia is of 4 hours average.3°Labour is modified very little. Now and then a stopping of the labour is noticed when the infiltration is made before a dilatation of 3 cm.4°No change concerning the period of dilatation, delivery and puerperium is noticed.

ISSN:1784-3286    

DOI:10.1080/17843286.1947.11716425

出版商:Taylor&Francis    

年代:1947

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SummaryIn 14 cases of non-tuberculous empyemas treated by the fluid-emptying process and by intrapleural injections of penicillin the results are as follows :8 cases of recovery, improvement of 1 chronic case; 1 case of recovery after rib-resection and 4 deaths.All cases of acute pneumococcal empyemas were healed successfully ; there were several failures, however, in cases of empyemas caused by staphylococcus and anaerobiical bacilli.It is our opinion that acute pneumococcal empyemas should be treated by means of tapping and intrapleural injections of penicillin, and that surgical drainage should be considered only after a medical treatment extended over several weeks has failed.Conversely if cases of empyemas caused by other germs do not respond promptly to penicillin, drainage together with rib-resection must be applied as soon as possible.

ISSN:1784-3286    

DOI:10.1080/17843286.1947.11716426

出版商:Taylor&Francis    

年代:1947

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SummaryThe effect of intravenous pyridoxine was investigated in a man whose leukocyte count was known to have been persistently low for the last five months. Administration of 1,400 mgr. over a period of 11 days was not followed by an increase of the white count.

ISSN:1784-3286    

DOI:10.1080/17843286.1947.11716427

出版商:Taylor&Francis    

年代:1947

数据来源: Taylor