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Title: United States Naval Medical Bulletin Vol. 16, Nos. 1-6, 1922

Creator: U.S. Navy. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery

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Date: 1922-01

Language: eng

Table of Contents

Number 1

PREFACE v

NOTICE TO SERVICE CONTRIBUTORS vi

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

Mosquito eradication.

By Commander A. H. Allen, Medical Corps, U. S. N 1

Hospital morale.

By Colonel E. L. Munson, Medical Corps, U. S. A 8

The pathologist as an essential factor in clinical diagnosis.

By Lieutenant Commander J. Harper, Medical Corps, U. S. N 14

Tonsillectomy, a surgical procedure.

By Commander G. B. Trible, Medical Corps, U. S. N 17

Cholelithiasis.

By Lieutenant Commander W. A. Brums, Medical Corps, U. S. N.R. F 25

HISTORICAL :

With Anson to Juan Fernandez, Part I.

By Lieutenant Commander W. M. Kerr, Medical Corps, U. S. N 35

EDITORIAL:

U. S. Naval Medical Bulletin —On a correspondence course for Naval

Medical Officers —On The Danger Of Using Strong Solutions Of Phenol In The Ear 43

IN MEMORIAM:

Andrew Reginold Wentworth, 1859-1921 49

HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS 51

CLINICAL NOTES :

BRONCHO-PNEUMONIA AND BRONCHOSTENOSIS FOLLOWING APPENDECTOMY.

By Lieutenant Commander I. W. Jacobs, Medical Corps, U. S. N_ 57

Report of four surgical cases.

By Lieutenant Commander J. J. A. McMullin, Medical Corps, U. S. N 58

Chronic cholecystitis.

By Lieutenant C. S. Norburn, Medical Corps, U. S. N 63

One hundred mastoid operations.

By Lieutenant J. W. Green, Medical Corps, U. S. N 89

PROGRESS IN MEDICAL SCIENCES :

General medicine. — Study of transfused blood.— Oral administration of

pituitary extract. —Causes and treatment of high blood pressure.—Pernicious

anemia. —Differential diagnosis between varicella and variola. — Predisposing

factor in diphtheria. —Chronic nephritis 71

Surgery. —First-aid work on shore with Royal Naval Division. — Surgery

of naval wounded in hospital yachts and small craft. —Non-surgical drainage of

the biliary tract S9 Tropical medicine. —Course of migration of ascaris larvae.

—Treatment of fluke diseases. —Laboratory observations on malaria. — Leprosy.

—Tuberculosis in Hongkong. —Feeding habits of stegomyia calopus. —Mononuclear

leucocyte count in malaria 97

Chemistry. —Experimental studies in diabetes. —Experimental studies in

diabetes. —Experiments on raw white of egg. —Antiscorbutic action of raw

potato. —Diet in hyperthyroidism. —Botulism. — Pituitary extract and histamine

in diabetes insipidus. —Protein in the cerebrospinal fluid. —Urine in pellagra.

—Acidosis in operative surgery. —Fats and Lipoids in blood after hemorrhage. —

Albumin, lymphocytic cells, and tubercle bacilli in sputum. — Nitrous oxide and

cholemia.— Lipoids in treatment of drug addiction disease.— Modification of

action of adrenaline by chloroform. — Anesthetic and convulsant effects of

gasoline vapors. —Absorption of local anesthetics through the genito-urlnary

organs. — Occult blood in the feces. —lTse of iodine for disinfecting the skin.

— Food value of various fats. —Chloride metabolism. —Urine hemolysis

coefficient. —Hemolytic substances in human urine. — Glucemia and glucosuria.

—Pharmacology of some benzyl esters.—Indican In water as an aid to hygienic

water analysis. —Relation of dextrose of blood to antipyrine. — Toxic effects

of chlorine antiseptics in

dogs. —Reaction to epiuephrin administered by rectum. — Renal

excretion. — Effect of water diuresis on the elimination of certain urinary

constituents 100

Eye, eak, nose, and throat. —Eye disease due to syphilis and trypanosomiasis

among negroes of Africa. —Lung abscess following tonsillectomy 111

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

Montaigne and medicine. —Venereal prophylaxis in Pacific Fleet. —

Benzyl benzoate. — Expedition of London School of Tropical Medicine to British

Guiana. —National board of medical examiners. — Papers by naval medical

officers. —Chaulmoogra oil in tuberculosis.—An operating room 100 years ago ,

133

NURSE CORPS :

Instruction at Oteen.

By Miss E. L. Hehir, Chief Nurse, U. S. N 121

Letter From Surgeon General To Director Of Department Of Nursing,

American Red Cross 122

DIGEST OF DECISIONS 125

BOOK NOTICES 131

QUERIES 139

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE STATISTICS, LETTERS, ORDERS, NEW LEGISLATION,

MOVEMENTS OF OFFICERS AND NURSES 141

Number 2

PREFACE v

NOTICE TO SERVICE CONTRIBUTORS vi

SPECIAL ARTICLES :

Size of the normal heart, a teleroentgen study.

By Commander H. W. Smith and Lieutenant Commander W. A. Bloedorn,

Medical Corps, U. S. N 218 Physical development of midshipmen.

By Lieutenant E. B. Taylor, Medical Corps, U. S. N 239

Some elements of leadership.

By E. L. Munson, Colonel, Medical Corps, U. S. A 251

HISTORICAL:

With Anson to Juan Fernandez, part II.

By Lieutenant Commander W. M. Kerr, Medical Corps, U. S. N 265

EDITORIAL :

On the making of abstracts —on the expression of visual acuity in

medical reports 280

SUGGESTED DEVICES :

A FORM " X " CARD.

By Captain A. Farenholt, Medical Corps, U. S. N 283

CLINICAL NOTES :

Results of refraction of seventy-six midshipmen.

By Lieutenant F. A. Hughes, Medical Corps, U. S. N 285

Recurrence in a case of hydatid disease.

By Lieutenant C. S. Norburn, Medical Corps, U. S. N 288

A DIAGNOSTIC SIGN DIFFERENTIATING BETWEEN ERUPTIONS CAUSED BY COWPOX

VACCINATION AND THOSE DUE TO SMALLPOX AND CHICKEN POX.

By Commander P. R. Stalnaker, Medical Corps, U. S. N 290

Report of three "hallux valgus" (bunion ) operations, using Mayo's

technique.

By Commander A. H. Robnett, Medical Corps, U. S. N 291

REPORTS :

The hospital standardization program of the American College of Surgeons.

By Commander R. C. Holcomb, Medical Corps, U. S. N 293

PROGRESS IN MEDICAL SCIENCES.

General Medicine. —Chronic myocarditis and its management. — Experiments

on the preservation of lemon juice and prevention of scurvy. —Scurvy : A system

of prevention for a polar expedition based on present-day knowledge. —Venous

puncture by means of steel needles.— Wassermann reaction 301

Surgery. —First aid work on shore with Royal Naval Division.— Hypertrophic

tuberculosis of the ileocecal region. —Importance of examination of patients by

the anesthetist previous to anesthesia. —Experimental and histological

investigation of rectal fistulas. —Treatment of fractures of the humerus by

suspension and traction. — Fractures of the head and neck of the radius 310

Tropical Medicine.—Oriental Sores. —Afebrile quartan malaria with

urticaria. —Three schistosomes in Natal which possibly attack man.—Cultivation

of trichomonas hominis. —Acute bacillnry dysentery. —Monilias of the

gastro-intestinal tract in relationship to sprue.—Hookworm infection in Brazil.

—Relapsing fever in Panama. —Treatment of kala-azar with some antimonial

preparations. —Human infection with Isospora hominis. —Etiology of gangosa and

its relation to papulocircinate yaws 324 Physiological Chemistry. —Ion

migration between cells and plasma. —Experimental rickets in rats. —Extraction

and concentration of vitamines. —Respiration and blood alkali during carbon

monoxide asphyxia. —Antiketogenesis. —The Effect of heat and oxidation upon

antiscorbutic vitamine.—Production of rickets by diets low in phosphorus and

fat-soluble A. vitamines. —Effect of muscular exercise upon certain common

blood constituents. — Comparative influence of green and dried plant tissue,

cabbage, orange juice, and cod liver oil on calcium assimilation. —Method for

the determination of sugar in normal urine. —Parathyroids and creatinine.

—Variations in the acid-base balance of the blood. — Thiocyanate content of the

saliva and urine in pellagra 329

Eye, ear, nose, and throat.—Use of scarlet red emulsion in atrophic

rhinitis (ozena). Accessory sinus blindness 329

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

Spiders in Medicine. —Meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology

and Oto-laryngology. —Meeting of the American Dietetic Association. —Japanese

medical world. —Some submarine notes. — School of Tropical Medicine at

Calcutta. —Army method of han dling syphilis. —Prophylactic vaccination for the

prevention of pneumonia 339

NURSE CORPS 351

DIGEST OF DECISIONS 353

BOOK NOTICES 355

QUERIES 361

NOTES ON PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, PREVENTIVE MEDICINE STATISTICS, LETTERS,

ORDERS, NEW LEGISLATION, MOVE MENTS OF OFFICERS AND NURSES 363

Number 3

PREFACE v

NOTICE TO SERVICE CONTRIBUTORS VI

SPECIAL ARTICLES :

Revaccination Against Smallpox And A Discussion Of Immunity Following

Cowpox Vaccination.

By Lieutenant E. Peterson, Medical Corps, U. S. N 411

Some elements of leadership.

By Colonel E. L. Munson, Medical Corps, U. S. N 433

Hyperthyroidism.

By Commander T. W. Reed, Medical Corps, U. S. N 454

HISTORICAL:

The history of anesthesia in America.

By Captain J. S. Taylor, Medical Corps, U. S. N 461

A history of blood transfusion.

By Lieutenant Commander W. M. Kerr, Medical Corps, U. S. N__ 465

EDITORIAL :

On education for our idle hours. On line of duty 477

SUGGESTED DEVICES :

The technique of making and staining frozen sections.

By Lieutenant Commander J. Harper, Medical Corps, U. S. N 481

CLINICAL NOTES :

Neurosyphilis.

By Lieutenant Commander H. Butts and Lieutenant W. M. Alberty, Medical

Corps, U. S. N 483

Treatment of surgical ulcers of stomach and duodenum.

By Lieutenant Commander J. J. A. McMullin, Medical Corps, U. S. N 497

Foreign body in the right lower bronchus.

By Lieutenant J. W. Green, Medical Corps, U. S. N 506

PROGRESS IN MEDICAL SCIENCES :

General medicine. —Treatment of gastric ulcer. —Meningococcus

infection. —Syphilis of the heart. — Standard of cure in gonorrhea. —

Provocative procedures in diagnosis of syphilis.—Intraspinal treatment of

neurosyphilis. —Dissemination of spirochseta pallida from the primary focus of

infection. —Abdominal syphilis.—Pulmonary syphilis.—Diagnosis and treatment of

early syphilis. —Reinfection and curability in syphilis. —Local and general

spirochetosis. —Use of arsphenamine in nonsyphilitic diseases.—Prophylaxis of

syphilis with arsphenamine 509

Surgery. —Epitheliomata of thymic origin.—Surgical treatment of

epithelioma of the Hp. —Light and heat treatment of epididymitis-- 521

Tropical medicine. — Recent progress in medical zoology. — Intravenous

injection of antimony tartrate in bilharzia disease.—Complexion of malaria

cases. —Standard treatment of malaria 524

Physiological chemistry. —Determination of the basal metabolism from

the carbon-dioxide elimination.—Supplementary values of proteins. — Studies in

the vitamine content. — Sampling bottle for Sins analysis. —Fat-soluble

vitamine. —Effect of hydrochloric acid ingestion upon composition of urine in

man 530

Eye, ear, nose, and throat.—Conditions predisposing to hemorrhage in

tonsil operations. —Statistical record of serious and fatal hemorrhage

following operation on the tonsil 540

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

Tenth revision of the United States Pharmacopoeia.— Vaccine in the

prevention of pneumonia. -—Three old books. —Removal of stains from wash goods.

—Health of the French Mediterranean fleet during the war. —Treatment of

poisoning due to the venom of a snake. —Annual health report of the German Navy

543

NURSE CORPS 561

DIGEST OF DECISIONS 567

BOOK NOTICES 569

QUERIES 572

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, STATISTICS, LETTERS, ORDERS, NEW LEGISLATION,

MOVEMENTS OF OFFICERS AND NURSES 574

Number 4

PREFACE , v

NOTICE TO SERVICE CONTRIBUTORS VI

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

Medical aspects of gas warfare.

By Lieutenant G. H. Mankin, Medical Corps, U. S. N 641

The alcohol question in Sweden.

By Commander J. S. Taylor, Medical Corps, U. S. N 649

The social service worker and the ex-service man.

By Lieutenant J. T. Boone, Medical Corps, U. S. N 653

Review of the reorganization of the sanitary and public health work in

the Dominican Republic under the United States military government of Santo

Domingo.

By Commander R. Hayden, Medical Corps, U. S. N 657

Some lessons of the World War in medicine and surgery from the German

viewpoint.

By Commander W. S. Bainbridge, Medical Corps, U. S. N. R, F 672

HISTORICAL :

James Inderwick, Surgeon, United States Navy, 1818-1815.

By Captain F. L. Pleadwell, Medical Corps, U. S. N 699

EDITORIAL :

The three horsemen and the body louse 713

CLINICAL NOTES:

Note on the use of Mercurochrome-220 within the peritoneum.

By Lieutenant Commander Lucius W. Johnson, Medical Corps,

U. S. N 717

Ten-second sterilization.

By Lieutenant Commander H. E. Harvey, Dental Corps, U. S. N. 717

The use of Mercurochrome-220 in infected wounds.

By Lieutenant W. L. Martin, Medical Corps, U. S. N 718

Notes on motor points.

By Commander W. S. Bainbridge, Medical Corps, U. S. N. R. F__ 719

PROGRESS IN MEDICAL SCIENCES:

Tropical medicine. —Treatment of human trypanosomiasis with

tryparsamide. —Wassermann reaction in malaria. —Wassermann reaction in malarial

fevers. — Rat repression by sexual selection. — Case of tubercular leprosy

treated by intravenous injections of stibenyl. —Bismuth-emetine treatment for

amebic dysentery and amebiasis. —Malaria incidence on the Canal

Zone.—Experiment of leper segregation in the Philippines.— Detection of Lamblla

lntestlnalls by means of duodenal tube. —Balantidium coll and pernicious

anemia. —Tropical myositis. —Differential diagnosis of the common intestinal

amebae of man.—Contributions to the biology of the Danish culicidae. —Treatment

of sleeping sickness. —Bilharzia disease treated with tartar emetic.

—Iso-agglutination group percentages of Filipino bloods.—Public health in the

Dominican Republic , 721

Chemistry. —Metabolism of the man of the Tropics. —Disturbances in the

development of mammalian embryos caused by radium emanation. —Ammonia content

of the blood and its bearing on the mechanism of acid neutralization in the

animal organism 735

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

Dispersion of flies by flight.—International Association of the History

of Medicine. —Incineration of latrine contents. —Far Eastern Association of

Tropical Medicine. —Care of the sick and wounded of the North Russia

Expeditionary Force. —Manufacture of soft soap. —the upkeep of rats. —Erratum

739

NURSE CORPS 749

DIGEST OF DECISIONS 7B9

BOOK NOTICES 768

QUERIES 767

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, STATISTICS, LETTERS, ORDERS, NEW LEGISLATION,

MOVEMENTS OF OFFICERS AND NURSES 769

Number 5

PREFACE V

NOTICE TO SERVICE CONTRIBUTORS vi

SPECIAL ARTICLES :

ON THE ENDOCRINE GLANDS.

By Surgeon Captain Masaharu Kojlma, Imperial Japanese Navy. 821

Aviation medicine in the United States Navy.

By Lieutenant J. F. Neuberger, Medical Corps, U. S. N 834

Pyelonephritis : A critical review of one hundred cases.

By Lieutenant Commander O. C. Foote, Medical Corps, U. S. N— 844

Recurrent hernia.

By Lieutenant Commander Lucius W. Johnson, Medical Corps, U. S. N 849

Meningococcus septicemia.

By Lieutenant Commander W. A. Bloedorn, Medical Corps, U. S. N 855

HISTORICAL:

Peter St. Medard, surgeon in the Navy of the United States.

By Lieutenant Commander W. M. Kerr, Medical Corps, U. S. N. 867

The study of medicine in Strasbourg.

By Captain J. S. Taylor, Medical Corps, U. S. N 874

EDITORIAL :

On the acquisition of useless knowledge. —ON the conservation of gauze

877

CLINICAL NOTES :

Report of a case of shark bite.

By Lieutenant Commander C. R. Baker and Lieutenant C. W. Rose, Medical

Corps, U. S. N 881

A practical treatment of acute ulcerative gingivitis.

By Lieutenant C. R. Wells, Dental Corps, U. S. N 885

REPORTS:

A report of the international standardization of sera 885

PROGRESS IN MEDICAL SCIENCES:

General Medicine. —Metabolism in pellagra. —-One thousand one hundred

goiters in one thousand seven hundred eighty-three persons. —Diphtheria carriers

and their treatment with mercurochrome.

—Method for determination of death by drowning. — Strain in

Spirochetes. —Hereditary blood qualities 889

Surgery. —Peri-arterial sympathetlcs. —Factors in bone repair.

—Operations on the gall bladder and bile ducts. —Operative procedures for

different kinds of goiter. —Varicose ulcers. —Cancer of the tongue 896

Tropical Medicine.—La maladie des oedemes a Java. —Dysentery.— Dysentery.

—Natural immunity of wild rats to plague.— Charcot-Leyden crystals in the

stools as an aid to the diagnosis of entamoebic

dysentery. —Glycosuria of malarial origin. —Dermatitis venenata

produced by an irritant present in stem sap of the mango. —Treatment of

trichuriasis with Leche de Higueron. — Malaria in Eastern Cuba. —Dhobie itch

produced by inoculating with a culture of Epidermophyton rubrtim. —Ueber eineu

Fall von Filaria loa 901

NOTES AND COMMENTS :

The immunization of adults with the diphtheria toxin-antitoxin mixture.

— Smallpox in the colony of Bahamas. — Meeting of Royal Society of Tropical

Medicine and Hygiene. —Curative effects of chaulmoogra oil derivatives on

leprosy. — Virulence of tubercle bacilli under changing environment. —Malaria

in Bulgaria. — Methods of drainage. — Use of white lead in paints. —A method of

preventive inoculation for smallpox. — Paper on hospital ship ventilation. —

Papers by medical officers of the Navy 907

NURSE CORPS 919

DIGEST OF DECISIONS 923

BOOK NOTICES 929

QUERIES 935

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, STATISTICS, LETTERS, ORDERS, NEW LEGISLATION,

MOVEMENTS OF OFFICERS AND NURSES 937

Number 6

PREFACE v

NOTICE TO SERVICE CONTRIBUTORS vi

SPECIAL ARTICLES :

Hydrogen-ion concentration.

By Lieutenant Commander C. W. O. Bunker. Medical Corps, U. S. N 973

Aviation medicine in the United States Navy.

By Lieutenant J. F. Neuberger, Medical Corps, U. S. N 083

Developments in the diagnosis and treatment of syphilis.

By Lieutenant L. W. Shaffer, Medical Corps, U. S. N 1011

HISTORICAL:

The old anatomical school at Padua.

By Lieutenant Commander W. M. Kerr, Medical Corps, U. S. N- 1015

EDITORIAL:

On carbon monoxide asphyxia. —On the habit of reading 1029

SUGGESTED DEVICES :

The method of preparing colloidal gold solution used at the U. S. Naval

Medical School.

By Lieutenant J. Harper, Medical Corps, U. S. N., and Chief Pharmacist

C. Schaffer. Medical Corps, U. S. N 1037

PROGRESS IN MEDICAL SCIENCES:

General Medicine. —Prognostic significance of persistent high blood

pressure. — Standardization of the Wassermann reaction. —Modern conceptions of

the treatment of syphilis. —Treatment of neurosyphilis. —Treatment of visceral

syphilis. —New technique for staining Treponema pallida. —Method of

demonstration of spirochteta pallida in the tissues 1041

Surgery. —Postoperative pulmonary complications 1051

Tropical Medicine. —Activities of infective hookworm larvae in the

soil. —Use of carbon letrachlorid for removal of hookworms — Hemotoxins from

parasitic worms. — Specific treatment of malaria. —Malaria epidemic in Naras in

1918. —Dysentery. — Une nouvelle maladie a bacilles acido-resistants qui n'est

ni la tuberculose, ni la lepre. —Malaria epidemic caused by M. Sinensis. —

Vesical bilharziasis, indigenous to Portugal. —An exceptional tropical

ulceration 1053

Physiological Chemistry. —Action of antispasmodic drugs on the

bronchus. —Methanol on trial.— Nature of beriberi and related diseases. —Ethyl

alcohol, caffeine, and nicotine on the behavior of rats in a maze. —Biliary

obstruction required to produce Jaundice.—Transfused blood.— Anthelmintics and

hookworm treat ment.—Chemotherapy. —Influence of morphine in experimental

septicemia.— Fumigation with formaldehyde. —Lesions in bones of rats suffering

from uncomplicated berberi 1062

Eye, ear, nose, and throat. —Nose, throat, and ear requirements of

airmen. —Septicemia and death following streptococcus tonsillitis.— Gangosa.—

Iritis caused by focal infection.— Episcleritis.. 1065

NOTES AND COMMENTS :

Toxic effects of picric acid. —Chemical warfare. — Destruction of the

dirigible ZR-2.—Outbreaks of plague in South Africa. —Relation of species of

rat fleas to the spread of plague. —Diary of William

Clift. —Medicine in art. —Therapeutic index of silver arsphenamin.

—Antiscorbutic vitamins contained in dehydrated fruits. — Hookworm survey.

—Treatment of amoebic dysentery 1071

REPORTS :

Report of the health of the Royal Air Force for the year 1920. 1083

NURSE CORPS 1095

DIGEST OF DECISIONS 1099

BOOK NOTICES 1103

QUERIES 1111

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE STATISTICS, LETTERS, ORDERS 1115

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