ISSN:0002-9629    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1925

数据来源: OVID

ISSN:0002-9629    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1925

数据来源: OVID

摘要:

THREE diseases causing very great economic loss are tuberculosis, syphilis, and rheumatic fever. Not only are the early acute stages of these maladies time-consuming in a period of life when the victims are of greatest value to the community, but their late manifestations, a consequence of their inherent chronicity, cause many individuals to be so severely crippled that they are often less efficient productive units.

ISSN:0002-9629    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1925

数据来源: OVID

ISSN:0002-9629    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1925

数据来源: OVID

摘要:

IN reviewing the early history of medicine, there is a striking periodicity of certain forms of treatment in disease. Some methods have been entirely empirical and their value and usage has depended largely upon the enthusiasm of the different observers. Such examples of therapeusis as cupping, blood-letting, balsams, baths, massage, metallic preparations and diets, as practised by early physicians have all repeatedly had their day of favor and decline through many centuries. One method, however, which has especially flourished and at times assumed an important role in the treatment of a rather wide field of disease is venesection. Although this method was held in universal esteem, there was never any agreement among practitioners as to the reasons for using it, the benefit derived from it or the technic. Hippocrates apparently used it with moderation. Galen, who loved to expound Hippocratic doctrines, wrote two treatises upon blood-letting. The Arabs introduced the theory of revulsion, which later stirred up the classic controversy between Brissot and the faculty at Paris. However, much these gentlemen may have quarreled among themselves-concerning the theory underlying phlebotomy and the manner of administration, not one of them was heretical enough to discard it. It apparently never occurred to them to question the efficacy of the practice.

ISSN:0002-9629    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1925

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IN 1898 hemolytic icterus was first established as a clinical entity by Hayem.1He stated that, aside from the types of chronic jaundice caused by obliteration of the bile duct or compression by tumor and by hypertrophie biliary sclerosis, there were other types of the disease that were but little understood. He then described 5 cases of icterus with very large spleens and a marked chronic anemia, the red cells varying in number from 2,493,000 to 632,000 per cu.mm., and he classified this variety as of a markedly hemolytic type (une maladie fortement déglobulisante) with crises of varying intensity and duration. Bile pigment was present in the blood serum, but not in the urine, and the itching and clay-colored feces, found in other types of icterus, were lacking. He proposed to name the disease “chronic infectious splenomegalic jaundice of a paroxysmal type.”

ISSN:0002-9629    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1925

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This paper contains some observations regarding the magnesium content of the blood of normal people and people with pulmonary tuberculosis; it also gives the calcium content pf the blood.In normal and tuberculous individuals a variation of the magnesium content of the blood plasma was found between 0.018 to 0.026 mg. per cubic centimeter and 0.031 to 0.038 mg. in the whole blood. No connection with the pathologic condition or the age, stature and body weight was found. The calcium values in the blood plasma of normal persons determined after ashing it proved similar to the values found by others, using a similar method, but were found considerably less in the blood plasma of tuberculous patients.

ISSN:0002-9629    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1925

数据来源: OVID

摘要:

SINCE the recent epidemics of influenza numerous articles have appeared on the subject of the subacute and chronic pulmonary infections of nontuberculous origin. The outstanding features of these papers are the lack of details as to the exact pathology and the indiscriminate use of the words “unresolved pneumonia,” “chronic interstitial pneumonia” and “pulmonary fibrosis.” It was hoped that further light could be thrown on these conditions from a pathologic standpoint, but unfortunately it is difficult to obtain material since these cases do not usually progress to a fatal issue.

ISSN:0002-9629    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1925

数据来源: OVID

ISSN:0002-9629    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1925

数据来源: OVID

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RECENTLY dermatologists have shown considerable concern over the comparatively large number of skin diseases of unknown etiology. Chipman1in his chairman's address before the section of Dermatology and Syphilology of the American Medical Association at St. Louis, pleaded for more determined effort on the part of dermatologists to discover the etiology of many diseases of the skin. Haase2in his chairman's address at San Francisco scored dermatologists for “the lethargy that now seems to possess” them and said that “the remedy for this condition is the thorough recognition that dermatology is nothing more, and certainly nothing less than a highly specialized branch of internal medicine.” As an internist, therefore, I am offering no apologies for discussing briefly the etiology of a dermatological condition.

ISSN:0002-9629    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1925

数据来源: OVID