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Title: United States Naval Medical Bulletin Vol. 5 Nos. 1-4, 1911

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

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Date: 1911

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Vol. 5, No. 1 Preface... ... . ..... . . .. ......... .. ... .... . ... . .. . .... .. . . ..... . .. . . . ..... . v Special articles ............. . ....... . . . .. . ............... . ............1 Diphtheria prophylaxis in the Navy. by C. S. Butler. .... . .. .. . ...1 Notes on "606," by Raymond Spear.. . .... .. . ... .. .. . ... ..... . ........ . . 4 Recent diagnostic methods in otology applicable to the naval service, by G. B. Trible.... . . .. .... ...... . . .......... .. .. . .. 6 Bier's method of treatment in acute gonorrheal arthritis, by H.F. Strine. 12 Problems of sanitation in landing and expeditionary service in tropical and subtropical regions, translation by P. J. Waldner.. .. . . .. . . . . . . . .. . .. .. 13 The mental examination of candidates for enlistment in the Navy and Marine Corps, by Heber Butts.. . ......... . . . .............. . .... . . . .... 29 The recent outbreak of cholera in Italy, by C. J. Holeman.. ..... .. . .. . . . 38 United States Naval Medical School Laboratories... ... ... .. ... .. .......... . . 41 The United States National Museum in its relation to other Government scientific collections, by P. E . Garrison .... . . . .. . .. . ..... . ..... .,..... 41 Specimens added to the helminthological collection, United States Naval Medical School, June-August, 1910....... . ... . .... ... . . ........ . .... . 43 Recent additions to the pathological collection, United States Naval Medical School. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . 43 Suggested devices............ . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . . ..... . . . .. . ... . . . ..... . . . .. . 46 A sanitary garbage-can holder, by H. C. Kellers. . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 46 The blanket splint, by F. X. Koltes..... ..... ... . . .. . . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Clinical notes.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Reports of four transfusions by the vein-to-vein method with curved glass tubes, by A. M. Fauntleroy.. . . . . . . . .. . ...... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Bilateral inguino-superficial hernia with bilateral undescended testicle, by H. C. Curl...... . ..... . .. . ... . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Larvae in the deep urethra and bladder, by H. F. Strine..... ... .. . . .. ... 51 An extensive razor wound of throat, by W. G. Farwell. ...... . ....... ..... 62 Report of two cases of heat cramps on U. S. S. Charleston, by H. A. May... 53 Fatigue and exhaustion in the fireroom, by F. G. Abeken .... ... . ... .. . . 67 A case of diabetes mellitus, by J.B. Dennis and A. C. Stanley . ........... 58 Sciatica incident to physical test (50-mile walk), by J. A. B. Sinclair..... 58 Poisoning resulting from the injection of bismuth paste, by C. B. Camerer... 59 Current comment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 The medical library on the U. S. S. Solace... . ..... .. ......... .... . ... .. 61 Dioxydiamidoarsenobenzol in the treatment of syphilis. .. . .. . .. . . . . . . ... 61 New blank forms and instructions pertaining thereto.. . .. .... . ... . . ..... 63 A case of yellow fever reaches Honolulu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Progress in medical sciences. . ....... ... . .. . . . .. . . . ... . . .. . .... . ... .. ... . .. 67 General medicine. . .. .. ... . . .. . .... .. ... .. . .. . . .. . .. ..... .. . .. ........ 67 A modern conception of the psychoneuroses; status thymolymphaticus and its relation to sudden death; the Cammidge test in experimental pancreatitis and other conditions; hiccough in course of diaphragmatic pleurisy treated by Laborde's method ; fatigue the cause of enuresis; pellagra, some clinical and other features of the disease; is mercury a specific in pulmonary tuberculosis; a case of an acute febrile and probably infectious disease of unknown origin; further remarks on duodenal alimentation ; pemphigoid eruptions in typhoid fever, A. W. Dunbar and J . L. Neilson . .. . .... . ... . . . .. . ... . . . .. 67 Surgery - The special field of neurological surgery, five years later; hypodermic injections in action, suggestions for simplifying their administration; the result of 168 operations for hernia; modern treatment of fractures; report of two cases of revolver shot wound of the brain; haemophilia; the exclusion of the skin in surgery; removal of foreign bodies from the bronchi; some notes on the use of nitrous oxid and oxygen for prolonged anesthesia; the end results of prostatectomy, R. Spear and E. Thompson ... . . . .. .. . .. . .... . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Hygiene and sanitation - Ventilation of ships, particularly merchant ships; oral prophylaxis; recruiting in the German army; concerning the sources of infection in cases of venereal diseases in the city of New York; the effect of a mosquito net on the air within it, H. G. Beyer and C. N. Fiske. .. . . .. ... . .. . .. . . .. . ... . . . . . .. . .. . . . ... . .... .. ... .... .. .. ..... 87 Tropical medicine - The rationale of quinine prophylaxis; a case of sleeping sickness studied by precise enumerative methods; statistical study of uncinariasis among white men in the Philippines, C. S. Butler.. . .. .. . .. 95 Pathology and bacteriology - A case of typhoid meningitis; complement fixation in thrombo-angiitie obliterans; personal observations on the Ehrlich-Hata "606;" certain aspects of the bacteriology of bacillary dysentery; a rapid presumptive test for diarrhea caused by the gas bacillus; investigation into the acid-fast bacteria found in the faeces with special reference to their presence in cases of tuberculosis; on the nature of the cellular elements presence in milk; infection of a still-born infant by an amoebiform protozoan (entamooba mortinatalium), O. J . Mink.. . . ..... . 99 Medical zoology - Ulcerating granuloma of the pudenda a protozoal disease (preliminary communication); report of 15 cases of hymenolepis nana, P. E. Garrison ... .... ... . ... ... .... .. ... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . .. 102 Chemistry and pharmacy - Studies in OEdema. VI. The influence of adrenaline on absorption from the peritoneal cavity, with some remarks on the influence of calcium chloride on absorption ; the action of mercury and iodine in experimental syphilis; a protein reaction in the blood of the insane; chemistry of the antigen used in the Wassermann reaction; a lack of oxygen not a cause of death in cases of diminished air pressure; influence of mercury on the results of the serum reaction in antisyphilitic treatment; quantitative determination of albumin in the urine; E.W. Brown and O. G. Ruge ............. . ............ ... ..... 104 Eye, ear, nose, and throat - The use of carbon dioxide snow in eye work; preliminary communication of a new method for the prevention and treatment of sympathetic ophthalmitis, E. M. Shipp......... .. . .. ... ... .. . 106 Reports and letters .. . . . ...... . .... . .... . ... . . ... . ... . .. . . . .. . . 109 A visit to the Leper Settlement, Molokai, Hawaii, J. D. Gatewood .... ... . 109 Report on the meeting of the American Public Health Association, 1910, C. N. Fiske. . ... ......... .. .. . .. . . . ... . . . ...... . . . .... .. . . ..... ... . . . 114 Report on the meeting of the American Hospital Association, 1910, A. W. Dunbar.. . .. .. .... . ... . ... .. . .. .. .. . . . .... ... ... ... .. .. .. ... . ....... 117 The latest word from Ehrlich........ . .............................. . .. 122 Vol. 5, No. 2 Preface... ... .. ... .. ........ ... .................. .... ..... .............. vii Special articles.....................125 The intravenous administration of "606" in 56 case, by G. B. Trible and H. A. Garrison ...................... 125 Ehrlich discusses "606," translation, by Dr. J.C. Bierwirth. . ...... . . . ... 134 Satisfactory results with a simplified Wassermann technique (Emery), by E. R. Stitt. ..................... 142 Further notes on the preparation of a culture medium from dried blood serum, by E. W. Brown... . . .. .... . . .. . .. .... . . ... ........ .. .. . .... 144 Note on the existence of Agchylostoma duodenale in Guam, by W. M. Kerr. .....................145 Intestinal parasites found among the crew of the U.S.S. South Dakota, by E.G. Parker. .... . ..... .. . ..... .. . ..... ...... . .... ... . . ... .. ...... . 145 Results of an examination of Filipino mess attendants for intestinal parasites, by W. A. Angwin and C. E. Camerer ..................... 147 The practical use of carbon dioxide snow as seen at the West London Hospital, by G. D. Hale. .. .... . .. . . . .. ... . . . .......... . .......... . ..... . 148 Nomenclature for causes of physical disability in the Navy, by 0. N. Fiske.. . .. . .......................... . .. .. . .... .. . . .. ...... .. .. .. . 149 United States Naval Medical School laboratories . . . . . . ..................... 159 An atypical typhoid bacillus, by O. J. Mink.. .. . .. ........ .. ........... 159 Notes on parasites found at animal autopsies in the Naval Medical School laboratories during 1910, by C. S. Butler and P. E. Garrison.. . .. . ...... 159 Specimens added to the helminthological collection, United States Naval Medical School, December, 1910-February, 1911 . .. ... . . 161 Additions to the pathological collection, United States Naval Medical School, December, 1910-February, 1911 . .... .162 Suggested devices ...... . . . ... ... .. . . . . . . 163 An intestine tray for autopsies, by P. E. Garrison. . . .... .... .. .. .. .. .. ... 163 A suggested improvement in the method of taking finger prints, by F. H. Brooks . .... .. .. .. . .. .. . .. .. ... . .... .. .. .. .. . . .. .... . . .. .. . ..... . .. 164 Clinical notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 A case of cholecystectomy, by R. Spear. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . 167 A case of fracture of the skull, by W. M. Garton. . . ... ... . ... . ........ . .. 168 Hypernephroma of right kidney, nephrectomy with recovery, by A. M. Fauntleroy... ... .. ... .. ..... .... . .. . . ..... ..... . .... . ............. . 169 A case of general chronic perihepatitis, by E. R. Stitt .. . . . . . .. ...... . ... 171 Bacillary dysentery showing extreme toxaemia, by E. R. Stitt........ .. .. 173 Report on 10 cases of syphilis treated with "606," by U. R. Webb....... 173 A suspected case of gangosa, by O. J. Mink.. . . .. . ...... . .... .. . . . .... .... 178 Lamblia intestinalis and ascaris lumbricoides associated with amoebic dysentery by G. B. Trible . . . . . ... ....... . . . . .. . .. .. ... . .... . ........ . . . . . . 178 A case of pernicious anemia showing points of resemblance to kala azar, by E. R. Stitt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 A case of amoebic dysentery with liver abscess by E. R. Stitt. . .. .. ... ... 180 A case of intussusception, by E. R. Stitt..... . . .. . . . . . .. ......... .. . .. . . . 181 Report of two unusual fracture cases, by J. B. Dennis and A. C. Stanley... 181 Associated tuberculosis and syphilis, by O. J. Mink and E. H. H. Old...... 182 An undesirable recruit, by Heber Butts............................ . . . . . 183 Report of six cases of appendicitis aboard the U.S. S. Tennessee, by M. K. Johnson and W. L. Mann...... ... .......................... .. ........ 190 Current comment... .. .................................................... 193 Notification of venereal diseases.............. . .......................... 193 The use of salvarsan in filarial disease.. ...................... . .......... 194 Howard Taylor Ricketts...................................... . ........ 195 Typhoid vaccination. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 Further notes on the new blank forms..................................... 196 The bacteriology of acute poliomyelitis............. . .... .. .. ...... ..... 197 Hospital facilities at Montevideo.... .... . .............................. 197 A correction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 A course of instructive lectures . ......................................... 197 Physical culture......... ... . . ........... .. .......................... . . 198 Progress in medical sciences...... . ................. . ..... . ............. . .. 199 General medicine - Haemoglobinuric fever on the Canal Zone; malingering; on the presence of a venous hum in the epigastrium in cirrhosis of the liver; the use of the X-ray in the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis; mercury succinimid in the treatment of tuberculosis; high blood pressure in arteriosclerosis; the treatment and prognosis of exophthalmic goitre; some clinical methods of diagnosis of the functional activity of the heart; further notes on the treatment of paralysis agitans with parathyroid gland; on fever caused by the bite of the sand fly (Phlebotomus papatasii); Myzomyia roasii as a malaria carrier; a modified Caldwell kitchen incinerator for field use, by A. W. Dunbar and J. L. Xeilson....... 199 Surgery - The cause of death from shock by commercial electric currents and the treatment of same; the best method of exposing the interior of the bladder in suprapubic operations; "606 "; a consideration of surgical methods of treating hyperthyroidism; genito-urinary diseases; radium therapy; the intravenous use of cocaine, report of a case; diseases of the stomach and duodenum from a surgical standpoint; dry iodine catgut; disinfection of the skin by tincture of iodine; the Roentgen-ray examination of the esophagus; solitary perforation of the ileum associated with strangulated and obstructed hernia; the time and method for prostatectomy; a practical mechanical method of end-to-end anastomosis of blood vessels; by R. Spear and E. \V . Thompson................... 213 Hygiene and sanitation - Sterilization of water on a large scale by means of ultra-violet rays; nota sulla carne refrigerata e sui refrigeranti dei piroscafi; the American game of football, is it a factor for good or for evil? the hygiene of the simming pool ; "cordite eating"; the process of disinfection by chemical agencies and hot water; eggs, a study of eggs offered for sale as pure food; by H. G. Beyer and C. N. Fiske. ..... .. 226 Tropical medicine - Upon a new pathognomonic sign of malaria; a simple method for the treatment of cholera; traitement de la trypanosomiase humaine, by C. S. Butler. . .... .. ....... ... .. ...... . . . . ..... .. . ....... 237 Pathology and bacteriology - A method for the bacteriological standardization of disinfectants; microorganism found in the blood of acute cases of poliomyelitis; experimental rssearches upon typhus exanthematicus done at the Pasteur Institute of Tunis during the year l910; bacteriology of human bile with especial reference to the typhoid carrier problem; the control of typhoid in the army by vaccination; experiments on transmission of bacteria by flies with special relation to an epidemic of bacillary dysentery at the Worcester State Hospital, Massachusetts, 1910; experiences in the use of vaccines in chronic suppuration of the nasal access0ry sinuses; histological study of skin lesions of pellagra; a resume of the evidence concerning the diagnostic and clinical value of the Wassermann reaction; experimentelle Beitrage zum Studium des Mechanismus der Immunkorper und Komplementwirkung; by O. J . Mink.............. 240 Chemistry and pharmacy.-The preparation of thyroid extract for therapeutic purposes; the action of urinary antiseptics; wird eingenommenes Chinin mit der Muttermilch ausgeschieden? Uebergang von Arzenmitteln in die Milch; the quantitative estimation of albumin in the urine, by Tsuchiya's procss; the quantitative determination of albumin according to Tsuchiya; on the stability of the solutions prepared for Bang's method of estimating sugar in the urine, by E. M. Brown and O. G. Ruge.. . .......... 251 Eye, ear, nose, and throat - Tests for color-vision ; a note on the use of scarlet red in corneal diseases; report on progress in otology; ear disease and its prevention; the prevalence of middle ear disease in the [British] army, with a suggestion for a remedy; peritonsillar abscess; by E. M. Shipp. . ........ . . 266 Reports and letters ............ 267 The surgical aspect of the engagement of La Ceiba, Honduras, by L. W. Bishop and W. L. Irvine.......... . ......... . .. . ... . ....... . . . ...... 267 Extract from sanitary report of U.S.S. New Orleans, for the year 1901, by W. F. Arnold... .. .. .. ....... ... . . . ... . . ... ..... . . ... . . . .. .. . . ....... 269 Vol. 5, No. 3 Preface...... ........... ................... .... ...... .... .. .... ...... .. ... v Special articles: · Tropical diseases in their relation to the eye, by E. M. Shipp.... .... . . . . 271 Intravenous administration of salvarsan, by G. B. Trible and H. A. Garrison. ... . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285 The mental examination of 50 recruits who became insane soon after enlistment, by Heber Butts........ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295 Diagnosis and treatment of hernia in the Navy, by B. F. Jenness.... .. ... 313 United States Medical School laboratories: Davainea madagascariensis in the Philippine Islands, by P. E. Garrison. . 321 The interpretation of negative and weakly positive reactions in Noguchi's complement fixation test, by M. E. Higgins... . .. . . . ....... . ......... 327 Specimens added to the helminthological collection, United States Naval Medical School, March-May, 1911........ . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 328 Specimens added to the pathological collection, United States Naval Medical School, March-May, 1911. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328 Suggested devices: An improvised X-ray apparatus, by H. A. Harris. . . . ..... . .. .. . .. . . . . . . 331 Fracture of mandible with improved method of adjustment, by W. A. Angwin .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332 Clinical notes: Gunshot wound of elbow, by Raymond Spear..... .. .. . .... . . . ... . . . ... . 335 Clinical symptoms appearing immediately after antityphoid inoculation, by J. R. Phelps and G. F. Clark. . .. .... . .. ..... . . ... . . ... .. . .. . . . . . .. 336 Posterior gastro-enteroetomy three years after anterior gastro-enteroetomy, by A. M. Fauntleroy... . .. ... .. ... . . ... . .. . . .. ... ... ... .. ..... . .. . . . 338 Pontine hemorrhage resulting from a blow in boxing, by H. C. Curl.. . . . . 340 Fracture of the zygoma, by R. B. Williams... ... .. . . ............ ....... 341 Death from unruptured thoracic aneurism, by E. P. Huff... . . .... . .. ... 342 A plastic pernicious anemia associated with agchyloetomiaeis, by E. R. Stitt. 345 Balantidium coli infection associated with amoebic dysentery, by G. B. Trible..... . ..... ... . ... . . . ... . . . ....... . ........ . ..... .. . 346 Return of syphilitic symptoms after administration of salvarsan, by C. F. Sterne. . ....... . .. . . . . .. . . ... . ..... . .... . ........ . .... . . . . .... . ... . . . 348 A case of syphilis which poeeibly demonstrates the efficacy of prophylaxis against venereal diseases, by E. H. H. Old ... . . . . .. ..... 349 Cerebral syphilis in a native of Guam, by W. M. Kerr.. ... . . ... ... ..... 350 A case of autoserotherapy, by E. O. J. Eytinge and L. W. McGuire. ...... 351 Haemoglobinuric fever, by D. G. Sutton. . . . ...... . .. . .. .. . .... .. . .... .. 352 Shock caused by lightning stroke, by W. S. Hoen .... . .. . . ............ . . 353 An unusual cause of burn, by F. M. Munson.......... .. . . .. . ..... . .. .. 354 Traumatic extrusion of testicle, by J . A. B. Sinclair. . . .. . . . . ....... . ... 355 Current comment: Criticisms and suggestions relative to the health records . .. .. . . . · 357 Distinguished honors conferred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358 The closing exercises of the Naval Medical School... . ...... . .... . ... . . . 358 Progress in medical sciences: General medicine - Plague in Manchuria and its lessons; the treatment of arthritis deformans; hereditary haemophilia, deficiency in the coagulability of the blood the only immediate cause of the condition; discussion of acidosis, by A. W. Dunbar and J . L. Neilson .. ........ .. ... .. . . .... 361 Surgery - Laceration of the axillary portion of the shoulder joint as a factor in the etiology of traumatic combined paralysis of the upper extremity; tuberculosis of the kidney and ureter; injuries to the kidneys with end results; fracture of the patella; acute emergencies of abdominal disease; intestinal obstruction due to kinks and adhesions of the terminal ileum; the functions of the great omentum; treatment of peritonitis consecutive to appendicitis; treatment of ascites by drainage into the subcutaneous tissue of the abdomen; special dangers associated with operations on the biliary passages and their avoidance; a simple method for the relief of certain forms of odynphagia; by Raymond Spear and Edgar Thompson....... ...... . . ... . ... ... ... .. 365 Hygiene and sanitation - Food requirements for sustenance and work; carbo-gasoline method for the disinfection of books; typhoid fever and mussel pollution; the duty of the community toward ita consumptives; some aspects of tropical sanitation; table jellies; the significance of the bacillus carrier in the spread of Asiatic cholera; the value of vaccination and revaccination; prophylaxie de la syphilis; the value of terminal disinfection; a method for determining the germicidal value and penetrating power of liquid disinfectants; by H. G. Beyer and C. N. Fiske........... 377 Tropical medicine - Further researches on the hyphomycetes of tinea imbricata; the action of'' 606" in sleeping sickness; the action of salvarsan in malaria; the application of "606" to the treatment of kala-azar; the specific treatment of leprosy; the role of the infective granule in certain protozoa! infections as illustrated by the spirochaetosis of Sudanese fowls, preliminary note; by C. S. Butler. . .... . . . ..... . .. .. .. . . . . ... . ... .... 389 Pathology and bacteriology - Ehrlich's biochemical theory and its conception and application; researches on experimental typhoid fever; a record of 90 diphtheria carriers; the serum diagnosis of syphilis; by M. E. Higgins. . . . 392 Medical zoology - Note on the presence of a lateral spine in the eggs of Schistosoma japonicum; onchocerciasis in cattle with special reference to the structure and bionomic characters of the parasite; by P. E. Garrison .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397 Chemistry and pharmacy - The preparation of a convenient and stable litmus solution; a method to demonstrate and estimate the digestive fermenta in the feces; a simple method for the estimation of ammonia in the urine of diabetics for the recognition of acidosis; new process for sterilizing water by potassium permanganate; the colorimetric estimation of dextrose in urine; a new method for the estimation of sugar in the urine; by E.W. Brown and O. G. Ruge . .. . .. ... . . . ..... ... . . 398 Eye, ear, nose, and throat - Examination of the nose and throat in relation to general diagnosis, results in asthma; the nonsurgical treatment of cataract; by E. M. Shipp..... . . . .. . .. .. .. . .... .. ... . 400 Reports and letters: Plague conditions in North China, by W. D. Owens.......... .. .. ... ... 405 Vol. 5, No. 4 Preface ... .. . . . ............... . ...... ... ........................ .. ........ v Special articles: The tenth convention of the second Hague conference of 1907, and its relation to the evacuation of the wounded in naval warfare, by F. L. Pleadwell (first paper) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409 Is gangoea a form of syphilis? by H. E. Odell....... .. ... . ............. 430 Salvarsan as a diagnostic and therapeutic agent in syphilis, by C. M. George.... .. ............ ...... . . .. .... . . . .... . .. . 485 Flat foot and its relation to the Navy, by R. G. Heiner.. . ............... 451 Notes on submarine cruising, by I. F. Cohn............................ 455 Important features in the technique of carbon dioxide estimations in air, by E. W. Brown... . ................. . .. . . . ... . ...... . ...... . ..... . . 457 The use of salvarsan on board the U.S.S. Michigan, by J . J. Snyder and A. L. Clifton............. . . .. . . .............. . .................... . .. 459 Notes on vaccination, by A. B. Clifford... .. ........................... 461 The preparation of patient.e for operation at the United States Naval Hospital, Norfolk, Va., by W. M. Garton.. . ..... .... .. .. ... . . . ...... ..... 462 United States Naval Medical School laboratories: Specimens added to the helminthological collection, United States Naval Medical School, June-Aug., 1911 ........ . ... .......... . .. . .. 465 Specimens added to the pathological collection, United States Naval Medical School, June-Aug., 1911.................... . .... . .. .. . ... . .. 465 Suggested devices: An apparatus for hoisting patients aboard the hospital ship Solace, by E. M. Blackwell... . ............ . . . ................................ . . 467 An inexpensive and satisfactory ethyl chloride inhaler for general anaesthesia, by J. H. Barton .. . . ... .. .. .. . . .. .. . .. .... ...... 469 Clinical notes: Old "irreducible" dislocation of head of humerus, by H. C. Curl. . . . ... . 471 A case of brain tumor, by R. E. Hoyt.. .. .... .... . ...... . . .... . .. ........ 472 A case of brain abscess, by J. R. Phelps and G. F. Clark.. .. . .. . . . . . . .. . . 474 Report of two cases of cerebrospinal fever, by R. A. Bachmann.. . . . .... 477 A case of leprosy on board the U.S.S. Villalobos, by D. H. Noble....... 479 A case resembling gangosa, in which a treponema was found, by P. S. Rossiter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481 A case extensively burned, by N. T. McLean.. ... .... .. . . .. . .. ... ... . . . 481 Acute pemphigus following vaccination, by R. Hayden.... ... . .... ..... . . 482 Two interesting cases on the U.S.S. Prairie, by C. C. Grieve . .. . . . .... . . 486 An atypical case of typhoid fever, by L. W. Johnson... . ... . .. . .... . .. . .. 488 Tolerance of the peritoneum rarely seen, by P. R. Stalnaker and G. W. Shepard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489 Note on tincture of iodine, by R. Spear...... . . . . . ... . ... .... . .. . .. ..... 490 Notes on salvarsan, by R. Spear..... . ...... . .............. . ..... . . ..... 491 Current comment : Instructions relative to medical returns ... ....... . ..... . ............... .493 Clinical cards .. ........... ... . . .. .. ... . .... . . . . . .. . ... . .. . ......... . . .494 Measles in Samoa . ................ .. . ... . . . . ... . ....................... .495 The conservation of the public health ........ . .................... .496 Closure of the naval stations at San Juan and Culebra ....... .. .. . . . ..... 498 New pavilion for the practice of thoracic surgery ........ . ..... ...... 498 The Bellevue Hospital nomenclature of diseases and conditions, 1911 .... .498 Progress in medical sciences: General medicine - Pathological and experimental data derived from a further study of an acute infectious disease of unknown origin; the mode of transmission of leprosy; genesis of incipient tuberculisus; a method for determining the absolute pressure of the cerebrospinal fluid; the after history of cases of albuminuria occurring in adolescence; the stereoscopic X-ray examination of the chest with special reference to the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis; the use of antiformin in the examination for the tubercle bacillus; by A. W. Dunbar and J. L. Neilson ............. . . . 501 Surgery - The control of bleeding in operations for brain tumors; intravenous anesthesia from hedonal; the difficulties and limitations of diagnosis in advanced cases of renal tuberculosis; the treatment of X-ray ulcer; nephroureterectomy; by Raymond Spear and Edgar Thompson .. 511 Hygiene and Sanitation - A simple method of purifying almost any infected water for drinking purposes; the physiology of the march; wall paper and illumination; vaccination et serotherapie anticholeriques; upon the inoculation of materia morbi through the human skin by fleabites; garbage receptacles; the relative influence of the heat and chemical impurity of close air; method for measuring the degree of vitiation of the air of inclosed spaces; by H. G. Beyer and C.N. Fiske . .. . .. ..... . 518 Tropical medicine - The diagnosis of pellagra; researches upon acarids among lepers; action of "606" upon malaria; by C. S. Butler ......... . 523 Pathology and bacteriology - An outbreak of gastroenteritis caused by B. paratyphosus; infection of rabbits with the virus of poliomyelitis; the mechanism of the formation of metastases in malignant tumors; a method for the pure cultivation of pathogenic treponema pallidum; by Y. E . Higgins .. .... .. .. . ..................... .. ..... . ............. . ...... . 528 Medical zoology - On Kwan's fluke and the presence of spines in fasciolopsis; endemic Mediterranean fever (Malta fever) in southwest Tcxas; by P. E. Garrison . ..... . .......... .. . . .... . .... . ........... . . . 532 Chemistry and pharmacy - Detection of blood by means of leuco-malachitegreen; an improved form of Heller's ring test for detection of albumin in the urine; an important reagent for Fehling's method for sugar estimation; method for the estimation of urotropin in the urine; detection of amylolytic ferments in the feces; new technique for the estimation of total nitrogen, ammonia, and urea in the urine; chemotherapy and "606" by E. W. Brown and O. G. Ruge ............... 533 Eye, ear, nose, and throat - Defective vision and its bearing on the question of fitness for service; "606 ' ' and eye diseases; by E. M. Shipp ... .. .. .538 Reports and letters: American Medical Association meeting, by C. P. Bfagg .. .. .... . .....550 Sanitary report on Kiukiang, Kiangse Province, China, by D. H. Noble ...550 Index to volume V ...............559 Subject index .......... . ........ . ....................... 559 Author's index . . . ........ . ..... . ......... . ......... . 570

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Date: 1924-01

Language: eng

Table of Contents

Number 1

PREFACE -------------------------------- - - ------ ------- V

NOTICE TO SERVICE CONTRIBUTORS____________________________ VI

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

Climatic Bubo.

By Commander C. S. Butler, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy______ 1

NOTES ON 350 APPENDECTOMIES.

By Lieut. Commander Lucius W. Johnson, Medical Corps, U. S .. Navy------------------------

-- 7

CLINICAL TRIAL OF THE ELLIS TEST FOR TUBERCULOSIS.

By Lieut. D. Ferguson, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy____________ 17

CANCER IN ST. CROIX, VIRGIN ISLANDS.

By Lieut. C. B. Van Gaasbeek, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy______ 31

SUGAR IN URINE.

Lieut. Commander C. W. 0. Bunker, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy, and

Pharmacist's Mate R. L. Thrasher, first class, U. S. Navy------------------

--------------- -------------------- 35

CLINICAL NOTES :

ENDOTHELIOMA.

By Lieut. L. H. Williams, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy__________ 39

GLANDERS IN MAN.

By Lieut. L. H. Williams and Lieut. R. C. Satterlee, Medical Corps, U.

S. Navy__________________ 41

ACUTE APPENDICITIS WITHIN A HERNIA SAC.

By Lieut. C. B. Van Gaasbeek, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy______ 43

CHANCRE OF THE PALMAR SURFACE OF THE HAND.

By Lieut. (J. G.) J. E. Root, jr., Medical Corps, U. S. Navy____ 44

RECURRENT DIFFUSE SCLERODERMA, A CASE OF.

By Lieut. C. W. Lane, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy_____________ 45

ACUTE YELLOW ATROPHY OF LIVER, A CASE OF.

By Lieut. G. L. McClintock, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy________ 49

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

Meeting of the Association of Military Surgeons.-Protection of capital

ships against poison gas.-Thomas Wakley and the Lancet.- Diathermy in

pneumonia.-Prophylactic injection of normal serum against measles.-Lamblial

dysentery treated with carbon tetrachloride.-Endocrine survey____________ 53

NAVY NURSE CORPS--------------------------------------------- 75

INSTRUCTIONS TO MEDICAL OFFICERS:

Shortage in petty-officer ratings in Hospital Corps.-Haemostatic forceps

and surgical needles carried in stock at the medical supply depot-Form N. M. S.

F. (revised) .-Policy of U. S. Employees' Compensation Commission regarding

employees suffering from occupational diseases; now considered compensable and

entitled to treatment.-Hospital accounting.-Examination report, Hospital Corps,

U.S. Navy; Form N. M. S. H. C. 1.-Analysis of the naval hospital ration for

1923 (continental hospitals only).-Reprints of the bureau's circular letters

for office files.-Additional data required on the Form F card in all cases of

injury.-Health records retained in files.-Wampoles hypno-bromic

compound.-Wampoles hypno-bromic compound, analysis requested_____________________

81

BOOK NOTICES---------------------------------------------------- 103

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, STATISTICS:

PNEUMONIA, BRONCHITIS, AND TONSILLITIS SEASON. HOUSING, VENTILATION,

AND CONTACT.

By Lieut. Commander J. R. Phelps, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy__ 107

Mass immunity to diseases.-Human intestinal parasites in

Guam.Prevention of venereal disease in England.-Vital statistics_______ 127

Number 2

PREFACE--------- - - - - --- --- - -- - ---- - -- - -- - ---- --------

---- - - -- -v

NOTICE TO SERVICE CONTRIBUTORS --- -- -- -- -- - - ------ - -- - vi

SPECIAL ARTICLE :

DETECTION OF THE PSYCHOPATH AND CLASSIFICATION OF NAVAL RECRUITS

IN ACCORDANCE WITH THEIR INTELLIGENCE.

By Lieut. A. W. Stearns, Medical Corps, United States Navy _ 149

INSULIN TREATMENT OF DIABETES MELLITUS.

By Lieut. Commander W. D. Owens, Medical Corps, United States Navy __________________

_ 170

NOVOCAINE ANESTHESIA.

By Lieut. Commander G. F. Cottle, Medical Corps, United States Navy

________________ 184

OBSERVATIONS CONCERNING YAWS IN HAITI.

By Lieut. P. W. Wilson, Medical Corps, United States Navy _ _ 190

RELATION OF THE CLINICAL LABORATORY TO THE MODERN HOSPITAL.

By Lieut. H. S. Sumerlin, Medical Corps, United States Navy _ 196

GAS MASK FOR HEAD AND CHEST INJURY CASES.

By Lieut. F. F. Lane, Medical Corps, United States Navy_____ 200

CLINICAL NOTES:

IMPROVED TECHNIC IN SPINAL PUNCTURE.

By Lieut. Commander T. W. Raison, Medical Corps, United States Navy____________

205

TRAUMATIC HEMATOMA OF SPERMATIC CORD.

By Lieut. L. H. Williams, Medical Corps, United States Navy__ 206

CYSTOSCOPY AND REPORT OF THREE UNUSUAL CASES.

By Lieut. L. B. Marshall, Medical Corps, United States Navy__ 207

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

Value of psychometric tests in the Navy-Need of physiotherapy – Two physicians

of Tortola-The all-purpose canister gas mask

- Etiology of gout-Bulletin of the National Board of Medical Examiner

·-Practical objectives in health work-Alcohol taxation and alcoholism

in Denmark-Revision of the pharmacopaeia-Phlebotomy in the monasteries-New

method of treating syphilis-Operating-room lighting_____ ______ ____ ____ __

___ ____ __ ___ __ ___ ____ 213

NURSE CORPS:

Nursing in the Philippine Islands-Cooperation with all departments_ 231

BOOK NOTICES __ _ 235

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, STATISTICS:

ERADICATION OF VERMIN ON BOARD SHIP_______________________ 247

SPPLEMENTARY REPORT: REVIEW OF LITERATURE RELATING TO PROPHYLAXIS OF

MEASLES.

By Dr. T. W. Kemmerer, United States Public Health Service__ 268

SWIMMING POOLS IN DETROIT---EPIDEMIOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS__ 271

ADOPTION OF NEW HOUSING ORDINANCE BY THE CITY OF SAN DIEGO, CALIF_274

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT ACTIVITIES AT NAVAL TRAINING STATIONS__ 275

Number 3

PREFACE ------------------------ v

NOTICE TO SERVICE CONTRIBUTORS- VI

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

AVIATION ACCIDENTS AND METHODS OF PREVENTION.

By Lieut. J. F. Neuberger, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy__________ 285

NOTES AND COMMENTS :

Aviation accidents.-Aeroplane accidents from the British viewpoint.-

The estimation of physical efficiency.-The air ambulance in war.---Gas warfare

in the air.-Ophthalmology in its relation to

aviation.-Notes on aviation medicine in France.-Fellowship in the American

College of Surgeons.- Vaccination against smallpox -The instruction of hospital

corpsmen__ 331

NAVY NURSE CORPS:

NOTES ON A COURSE FOR INSTRUCTORS OF NURSING-- 363

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, STATISTICS:

REMARKS ON THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF SMALLPOX AND THE PREVENTIVE VALUE OF

VACCINATION WITH COWPOX VIRUS.- MEDICAL OFFICER RECOMMENDS ADOPTION OF A

THE UNITED STATES NAVAL TRAINING STATION, NEWPORT, R. I.-MEDICAL BULLETIN OF THE

DESTROYER SQUADRONS OF THE BATTLE FLEET.-PROPHYLAXIS OF VENEREAL

DISEASE.-BACILLARY DYSENTERY IN GUAM.-PORTABLE

CANVAS SACK STEAM DISINFECTORS AVAILABLE ___________ 395

Number 4

PREFACE - --- ------ - - --- --- --------- - --- V

NOTICE TO SERVICE CONTRIBUTORS__ _________ VI 1

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPH IN PROGNOSIS VALUE OF.

By Lieut. Commander W. a. Bloedorn and Lieut. L . J. Roberts, Medical

Corps, United States Navy____ 423

ETHYLENE FOR GENERAL ANESTHESIA, USE OF.

By Commander C. W. Moots,

Medical Corps, United States Naval Reserve Force _ -----.- - - --------

------------- - - - ----------- 429

HYDRONEPHROSIS.

By Lieut. Commander R Cuthbertson, Medical Corps, United States Navy

------------ 431

UNSUSPECTED SYPHILIS.

By Lieut. Commander W. H. Connor, Medical Corps, United States

Navy_______ 439

RISE OF LOCAL ANESTHESIA.

By Dr. Charles A. Ingraham ___________ ____________ ___________ 445

CLINICAL NOTES:

SARCOMA.

By Lieut. R. M. Choisser, Medical Corps, United States Navy 451

AVULSION OF SCROTUM, LEFT TESTICAL AND SHEATH OF PENIS.

By Lieut. Commander G. F. Cottle, Medical Corps, United States Navy

-------------------------------- 457

HYDATIDIFORM MOLE, CASE OF.

By Lieut. Commander C. C. Kress and Lieut. H. C. Bishop, jr., Medical

Corps, United States Navy____ 460

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

Mental tests for recruits-Fish poisons-An eighteenth century country

practice-medical expedition to the South Seas-How to use a refrigerator-

Anaphylactic reaction from typhoid prophylaxis ------------- 463

NAVY NURSE CORPS:

Relation of the dietetic department to the medical service of a

hospital_____________________________________________ 477

BOOK NOTICES -------------------------------- 483

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE. STATISTICS:

The prevention and control of cerebrospinal fever in the British Army as

reviewed in the official history of the war ____________ 493

Comments relating to health conditions, from the annual report of the

commander of the United States naval detachment in Turkish waters--Toxic effect

of hydrogen sulphide-Eradication of ants from ships of the United Fruit

Co.-Physical examination of food handlers in New York City- Venereal diseases

and prophylaxis in the United States Asiatic Fleet- Typhoid fever report-

Dysentery and the tendency to report ill-defined cases under a dysentery title

- Remarks relating- to the use of nomenclature titles____ _____ 515

Number 5

PREFACE -- ------- ------------------------------------------------- v

NOTICE TO SERVICE CONTRIBUTORS __________________________ _ vi

SPECIAL ARTICLES :

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE MARINE CORPS, EAST COAST EXPEDITIONARY FORCE,

DURING THE FALL MANEUVERS OF 1923, AN ACCOUNTOF

By Lieut. Commander W. Chambers, Medical Corps, U. S. N.____ 531

PYELOGRAPHY.

By Commander W. S. Pugh, Medical Corps, U.S. N. (ret.)______ 559

HYDRONEPHROSIS.

By Lieut. (J. G.) R B. Engle. Medical Corps. U. S. N. 567

BICHLORIDE OF MERCURY POISONING WITH CALCIUM SULPHIDE AS A CHEMICAL

ANTIDOTE – A PRELIMINARY REPORT OF THE TREATMENT OF.

By Lieut. J. M. McCants, Medical Corps, U. S. N. _______________ 572

CONSTRUCTION OF VULCANITE PARTIAL DENTURES.

By Lieut. L. M. Desmond, Dental Corps, U. S. N.---------------- 578

CLINICAL NOTES:

CHRONIC DUODENAL ULCER.

By Lieut. (J. G.) O. A. Smith, Medical Corps, U. S. N. __________ 581

MALIGNANT ENDOCARDITIS FOLLOWING FRACTURE OF THE RIBS, A CARE REPORT.

By Lieut. (J. G.) B. M. Summers, Medical Corps. U. S. N. ______ 586

INCONTINENCE OF URINE.

By Lieut. (J. G) E. M. Harris, jr., Medical Corps, U. S. N. ______ 591

REPORT OF A DEATH OCCURING DURING TREATMENT FOR LEPROSY WITH

CHAULMOOGRA OIL DERIVATIVES.

By Lieut. F. L. McDaniel, Medical Corps, U. S. N. ______________ 594

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

German hospital ship during the ·world War – Misconduct ruling__ 597

NAVY NURSE CORPS:

Notes on dietetics taken at Miss Farmer's School of Cookery, Boston, Mass.

----------------- 605

INSTRUCTIONS ISSUED BY THE BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY:

Patients suffering with tuberculosis or neuropsychiatric diseases and conditions

who are veterans of the Spanish-American War, Boxer Rebellion, and the

Philippine lnsurrection, now under treatment but who are not beneficiaries of

the Veterans' Bureau as veterans of the World War, and who are not at present

members of the regular military and naval establishments--Hospital Corps

Handbook. U.S. Navy, 1923, issue of-Adoption of revised Nomenclature of Diseases

and Injuries, Medical Department. U.S. Navy-Classified expenditures and per

diem cost in naval hospitals (continental), during the quarter ending September

30, 1923--Paragraphs 1280 and 1281, Naval Courts and Boards,

1923-Epidemiological study of influenza, the common cold and other respiratory

disorders, now being carried on by the U. S. Public Health Service, request for

cooperation by medical officers of the Navy-Influenza, the common cold, and

other respiratory disorders - Schedule of wages for civilian employees,

effective .January 1. 1924 -Laboratory courses for nurses of the U.S. Navy -

Enlistment of men not physically qualified - Administration of triple antityphoid

vaccine-Classified expenditures and per item cost in naval hospitals

(continental) during October, 1923 - Form F cards in cases of patients taken up

as from change of diagnosis - Form “ X " - Abstract of enlistments- Addition

of diagnostic title number 1973, “Urticaria," to

Navy Nomenclature of Diseases and Injuries-Care in handling

concentrated spirit of nitrous ether- Equalization

bill - Modification of present allotment system-Instrument, plastic filling.

Black’s, Nos. 1 to 7, addition to Supply Table, Part II – Assignment of light

duty to hospital patients- Form N. M. S. H. C. S.

forwarding of, in the case of hospital corpsmen whose records have been

closed fo1· desertion and convicted of absence without leave, or absence over

leave, 01· restored to duty-American Red Cross-Disciplinary regulations

referring to beneficiaries of the U. S. Veterans' Bureau in naval hospitals--Complement

fixation tests for syphilis-Transportation of Insane patients-Closer relation

between medical officers on recruiting duty and the Bureau of Medicine and

Surgery-Memorandum for medical officers on recruiting duty-. Applicants for

appointment in the Navy Nurse Corp, physical examination of--Change in the

Manual of the Medical Department - --- --------------- - ----- -------- ----- -

- - -- __ 617

BOOK NOTICES __ --------- - --- --- - ------ --- ---- ----- --- - -----

- - 653

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE STATISTICS:

Resuscitation apparatus - Follow-up treatment of syphilis- Accident statistics

injuries and poisonings-Methods used in the prevention and control of

communicable diseases at the naval training station, Hampton Roads, Va.-

Venereal disease experience of the U.S. S. Detroit during her

"shakedown" cruise—Typhoid fever report-Eradication of vermin : note

from the Marine Barracks, Washington, D. C.- Food poisoning- Improved sanitary quality

of foods now marketed compared with conditions ten years ago, as observed in

Detroit-Physiological effects of high temperatures and high relative

humidity-Supplementary report on tentative bacteriological standards for

swimming pools in Detroit-Correct reporting of cases remaining at the end of

the calendar year 1923 ---------------------- 659

Number 6

PREFACE ________ v

NOTICE TO SERYICE CONTRIBUTORS ----------------------------- vi

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

DIAGNOSIS OF EARLY PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS

By Lieut. W. L. Rathbun, Medical Corps, U. S. Naval Reserve Force

____________ 685

PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS, EARLY DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF.

By Lieut. Commander J. B. Pollard, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy_ 691

EXTENSIVE SUPERFICIAL BURNS.

By Lieut. Commander G. W. Shepard, ledical Corps, U. S. Navy_ 697

SULPHARSPHENAMINE, A REPORT ON ITS USE AT THE MAYO CLINIC, ROCHESTER.

MINN.

By Lieut. Commander R. Hayden, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy.__ _ 702

LEPROSY IN THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.

By Lieut. J. M. McCants, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy ________ _ 705

CLINICAL NOTES:

KONDOLEON OPERATION AND FILARIASIS.

By Lieut. Commander H. M. Stenhouse. Medical Corps, U. S. Navy

____________ 715

MAXILLARY SINUSITIS OF DENTAL ORIGIN.

By Lieut. E. B. Howell, Dental Corps, U. S. Navy_____________ 716

REPORT OF A CASE OF LARGE "SOLITARY" TUBERCULOUS ABSCESS OF LIVER.

By Lieut. L. F. Robinson. Medical Corps, U. S. Naval Reserve Force-------------------------------

719

ADVANCED TUBERCULOSIS UNSUCCESSFULLY TREATED BY ARTIFICIAL PNEUMOTHORAX,

COMPLICATED BY PYO-PNEUMOTHORAX AND TREATMENT BY THORACOPLASTY, A CASE OF.

By Lieut. (Junior Grade) E. W. Gutzmer, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy

---------------------------------- 721

NOTES AND COMMENTS :

A correction.-Value and limitations of the Rontgen ray in the diagnosis

of pulmonary affections. - Sulpharsphenamine on board ship.-A note on

interpretation of dental radiographs __________ - 727

NAVY NURSE CORPS:

MY FIRST DUTY ABOARD SHIP. THE U. S. S.

"RELIEF"-------------- 739

BOOK NOTICES--------------------------------- 751

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, STATISTICS:

STUDIES OF SUBMARINE VENTILATION IN TROPICAL WATERS.

By Lieut. Commander R. F. Jones and Lieut. G. H. Mankin, Medical Corps,

U. S. Navy ----------- 759

STUDIES BY THE UNIITED STATES PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE REGARDING CHEMICAL

AND PHYSIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF INDUSTRIAL FATIGUE__ 795

EPIDEMIOLOGICAL REPORT OF AN OUTBREAK OF BACILLARY DYSENTERY AT THE MARINE BARRACKS,

RIFLE RANGE, SANTO DOMINGO CITY, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC.

By Lieut. H. B. LaFavre, medical Corps, U. S. Navy____________ 797

Bacillary dysentery among Marine Corps and Nay personnel serving with

the gendarmerie of Haiti.- Bacillary dysentery in Guam. Needless noise a

detriment to health and efficiency.-Naval training stations, notes

from.-Venereal disease conditions from the U. S. S. "Pittsburgh,"

report on.-Fatal accident attributed to rusty surface of a revolving

shaft-Admissions for injuries and poisonings,

January and February, 1924------------------------- 800

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Table of Contents

Number 1

PREFACE V

NOTICE TO SERVICE CONTRIBUTORS VI

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

ANTHROPOMETRIC STUDY AT ANNAPOLIS.

By Lieutenant L. B. Solhaug, Medical Corps, U. S. N 1

Medical and Hygienic Aspects of Submarine Service.

By Lieutenant Commander E. W. Brown, Medical Corps, U. S. N 8

Report on Facial and Jaw Injuries.

By Lieutenant Commander L. W. Johnson, Medical Corps, U. S. N 17

Military Orthopedic Hospitals in the British Isles.

By Lieutenant R. Hammond. Medical Corps, U. S. N. R. F. 65

HISTORICAL :

Medicine in Rome 103

EDITORIAL :

The New Year — Standards of Duty 127

IN MEMORIAM :

Edward Grahame Parker.

By Captain C. E. Riggs, Medical Corps, U. S. N 135

SUGGESTED DEVICES:

Changes in Scuttle Butts Aboard Ship.

By Lieutenant Commander J. A. B. Sinclair, Medical Corps,

U. S. N. R. F 137

An Emergency Evacuation Device 145

CLINICAL NOTES :

Bronchopulmonary Spirochetosis in an American.

By Lieutenant G. W. Lewis, Medical Corps, U. S. N 149

Encephalitis Lethargica.

By Lieutenant A. F. Kuhlman, Medical Corps, U. S. N 151

Defense of the Open-Air Treatment of Pneumonia.

By Lieutenant D. Ferguson, jr., Medical Corps, U. S. N 153

NOTES AND COMMENTS :

Carbon tetrachloride poisoning. —Civil service positions. — Serum treatment

in yellow fever. —" Deer-fly disease." — Request for specimens.—

Medical personnel of the French Navy.—Centenary celebrations. —Situs inversus.

—Italian view of prohibition. — Effects of prohibition In Chicago. — Treatment

of sterility. — Pilocarpine in influenza. —A death from anesthesia.- — Free

hospital service in Oklahoma City. —Birth rate of Manila. —Expansion of the

Faculty of Medicine, Paris. —Statistics on blindness. —French eight-hour law. —

Corporation philanthropy 155

REPORTS :

The Receiving Ship Barracks, New York.

By Commander W. G. Farwell and Lieutenant R. M. Krepps, Medical Corps,

U. S. N 163

Grounding of the U. S. S. Northern Pacific.

By Lieutenant J. C. Ruddock, Medical Corps, U. S. N 185

Impressions of a Reservist.

By Commander L. R. G. Crandon, Medical Corps, U. S. N. R. F 188

Number 2

PREFACE v

NOTICE TO SERVICE CONTRIBUTORS vi

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

Types of Neurological and Psychiatric Cases.

By Lieutenant Commander E. C Taylor, Medical Corps, U. S. N. R. F 191

Yellow Fever.

By Lieutenant Commander T. Wilson, Medical Corps, U. S. N 200

Asepsis of Abdominal Incisions.

By Lieutenant Commander F. H. Bowman, Medical Corps, U. S. N 208

Calcium Chloride Intravenously for Hemoptysis.

By Lieutenant Commander W. H. Fickel, Medical Corps, U. S. N 210

Hospital Records 213

HISTORICAL:

The Arabians and the First Revival of Learning 225

SUGGESTED DEVICES:

Hospital Garbage Disposal.

By Captain A. Farenholt, Medical Corps, U. S. N 237

The Flat-Foot Ladder 240

CLINICAL NOTES:

Chondrodysplasia with Exostoses.

By Lieutenant R. W. Hutchinson, Medical Corps, U. S. N 243

A Case of Vascular Syphilis.

By Lieutenant A. E. Kuhlmann, Medical Corps, U. S. N., and Lieutenant

Commander C. C. Ammerman, Medical Corps, U.S.N.R. F 245

Two Cases of Encephalitis Lethargica.

By Lieutenant Commander R. I. Longabaugh, Medical Corps, U. S. N 249

A Case of Foreign Body in the Head.

By Lieutenant Commander L. M. Schimdt, Medical Corps, U. S. N. 254

The Late Treatment of War Osteomyelitis.

By Lieutenant E. I. Salisbury, Medical Corps, U. S. N. R. F 255

Two Cases of Gas Gangrene.

By Lieutenant Commander L. M. Schmidt, Medical Corps. U. S. N 257

Gastric Ulcer with Perforation.

By Lieutenant G. G. Holladay, Medical Corps, U. S. N. R. F 259

Internal Ophthalmoplegia.

By Lieutenant Commander E. E. Woodland, Medical Corps, U.S.N 260

Open Treatment of a Fractured Metacarpal Bone.

By Lieutenant R. W. Auerbach, Medical Corps, U. S. N 263

Supernumerary Phalanx.

By Lieutenant R. S. Reeves, Medical Corps, U. S. N. R. F 265

A Cask of Ruptured Kidney.

By Commander K. It. Richardson, Medical Corps, U. S. N

Mustard Gas and the Cardiovascular System.

Ry Lieutenant Commander W. H. Michael, Medical Corps, U. S. N

A Case of Ulcer of the Sigmoid Flexure.

By Lieutenant H. R. Coleman, Medical Corps, U. S. N

A Case of Malposition.

By Lieutenant A. C. Toll inner, Dental Corps, U. S. N

PROGRESS IN MEDICAL SCIENCES :

General Medicine — Blood pressure and posture —Intramuscular Injections

of quinine in malaria — Vincent's disease Surgery — Appendicitis amongst

sailors— Transplanting of bone— Rectal ether anesthesia

Hygiene and Sanitation — Destruction of lice by steam

Eye, Ear. Nose, and Throat — Ocular phenomena in the psychoneuroses of

warfare —Ocular complications due to typhoid inoculations

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

Syphilis and the war—Bone surgery —National Research Council— Laboratories

in Poland— National Anaesthesia Research Society — Vanderbilt Medical School —

Municipal education in Detroit — Female medical matriculates— Degrees conferred

by Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh — Speech defects — Typhoid fever in

New York — Venereal diseases in California- — Omissions in the Annual Report of

the Surgeon General, 1919

REPORTS :

U. S. Navy Ambulance Boat No. 1.

By Chief Pharmacist's Mate D. V. De Witt, U. S. N

Physical Development in the Navy.

By Lieutenant B. G. Baker, Medical Corps, U. S. N

Venereal Prophylaxis at Great Lakes, III.

By Lieutenants D. It. Blender and L. A. Burrows, Medical Corps, U. S.

N. R. F

Report of 505 Tonsillectomies.

By Lieutenant W. P. Vail, Medical Corps, U. S. N. R. F

BOOK NOTICES

Number 3

PREFACE v

NOTICE TO SERVICE CONTRIBUTORS vi

SPECIAL ARTICLES :

History of the U. S. Naval Hospital, Chelsea, Mass.

By Captain N. J. Blackwood, Medical Corps, U. S. N 311

INSTRUCTION FOR THE HOSPITAL CORPS.

By Lieutenant Commander W. M. Kerr, Medical Corps, U. S. N. 338

Study of Two Cases of Diabetes Mellitus.

By Lieutenant L. F. Craver, Medical Corps, TJ. S. N 345

Flat Foot in the Navy.

By Lieutenant C. F. Painter, Medical Corps, U. S. N. R. F 359

Static Defects of the Lower Extremities.

By Lieutenant A. A. Marsteller, Medical Corps, U. S. N 365

Treatment of Malaria.

By Lieutenant Commander W. H. Michael, Medical Corps, U. S. N 367

Navy Recruiting.

By Lieutenant W. H. Cechla, Medical Corps, U. S. N 371

HISTORICAL:

American Founders of Gynecology 373

EDITORIAL :

"Bring Forth Your Dead "—Is Educational Prophylaxis Effective

381

William Martin —John Wolton Ross —Oliver Dwight Norton, Jr 389

CLINICAL NOTES:

Interdental Ligation for Jaw Fractures.

By Lieutenant W. F. Murdy, Dental Corps, U. S. N 391

A Temporary Stopping.

By Lieutenant Commander H. E. Harvey, Dental Corps, U. S. N 394

ASCARIASIS AND APPENDICITIS.

By Lieutenant Commander E. G. Hakansson, Medical Corps, U. S. N 394

Malarial Crescents.

By Lieutenant Commander W. H. Michael, Medical Corps, U. S. N_ 395

Poisoning by Jelly Fish.

By Commander A. H. Allen, Medical Corps, U. S. N 396

Traumatic Rupture of Kidney.

By Lieutenant Commander F. H. Bowman, Medical Corps, U. S. N 397

A Case of Erythema Multiforme.

By Lieutenant M. F. Czubak, Medical Corps, U. S. N 399

PROGRESS IN MEDICAL SCIENCES:

General Medicine. — Static back trouble—Benzyl benzoate —Relation of

anaphylaxis to asthma and eczema —High enema —Treatment of typhus —Thilerium

hominis 401

Mental and Nervous Diseases. —Insanity as a defense in crime —The nervousness

of the Jew— The Babinski reflex —Problems of delinquency —Encephalomyelitis in

Australia 408

Surgery. — Radium — Surgery of peripheral nerves — Referred symptoms in

diseases of gall-bladder and appendix—Intracranial pressure —Protection of the

skin in surgical operations—Anesthesia

from drugs administered by the mouth —A new skin-suture material —

Roentgen-ray problems , 414

Hygiene and Sanitation. — Birth control—Typhoid fever in vaccinated

troops —Detection of typhoid carriers —Streptococci in market milk

—Tuberculosis in San Francisco —An experiment in sanitary education —Oral

hygiene —Differential diagnosis between trachoma and follicular conjunctivitis

—Left - handedness —The Negritos of the Philippine Islands —Tropical Australia

425

NOTES AND COMMENTS :

American Society for the Control of Cancer — Pay of Italian medical officers

— The passing of the book worm— The neurotic girl —Control of druggists in

Michigan — English statistics on alcoholism —Prevention of simple goiter— Value

of quarantine against influenza in Australia —W. P. C. Barton, first chief of

the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery—Information on blood-pressure estimation

—Automobile accidents —Egyptian Medical School — Educational movement In U. S.

Army 443

REPORTS :

Health Conditions in Santo Domingo.

By Lieutenant Commander G. F. Cottle, Medical Corps, U. S. N 453

History of U. S. S. Pocahontas During the War,

By Lieutenant Commander M. Boland, Medical Corps, U. S. N 460

With the American Peace Commission.

By Commander A. D. McLean, Medical Corps, U. S. N 500

Testing Water for Storage Batteries.

502

Report from Naval Medical School Laboratory 505

BOOK NOTICES 505

Number 4

PREFACE V

NOTICE TO SERVICE CONTRIBUTORS VI

SURGICAL ACTIVITIES AT THE NAVAL

HOSPITAL, NEW YORK.

Interesting bone cases 512

Fractubes of the anterior tuberosity of the tibia and Osgood-Schlatter's

disease 516

Carrel-Dakin technique for empyema 527

Physical therapy 535

Occupational therapy 536

War wounds of the joints.

By Dr. L. Delrez, Faculty of Medicine Liege 537

A case or joint treatment by Willems's method 545

Chronic intestinal stasis 545

Carrel-Dakin technique in treatment of carbuncle 549

A case of sarcoma of the foot 550

A case of Jacksonian epilepsy with spastic contracture 551

A Case Of Osteoma Of The Humerus 552

A Case Of Bone Infection Resembling Sarcoma 552

Wound closures after Carrel-Dakin treatment 553

Ether in peritonitis 557

HISTORICAL:

The founders ok naval hygiene. Lind, Trotter, and Blane 563

EDITORIAL:

Hospital standards —As seen from within 629

SUGGESTED DEVICES :

Vision test apparatus.

By Lieutenant Commander H. W. Glltner, Medical Corps, U. S.N. R. F 637

Treatment of cement floors.

By Captain A. Farenholt, Medical Corps, U. S. N 638

CLINICAL NOTES:

Ophthalmitis in secondary syphilis.

By Lieutenant Commander W. H. Whitmore, Medical Corps, U. S. N 639

TWO CASES OF OPTIC ATROPHY.

By Lieutenant Commander C. B. Camerer, and Lieutenant G. L. McClintock,

Medical Corps, U. S. N 641

Arsphenamine in malaria.

By Lieutenant Commander W. H. Michael, Medical Corps, U. S. N 643

Ureteral calculus.

By Commander W. J. Zalesky and Lieutenant Commander P. F. Prioleau,

Medical Corps, U. S. N 644

PROGRESS IN MEDICAL SCIENCES :

General medicine. — Treatment of respiratory catarrhs.—Tests of thyroid

hypersensitiveness. —A diet sheet for nephritics.— Delayed arsenical poisoning

647

Surgery. —Open treatment of fractures. — Treatment of crushed extremities.

—Nerve injuries of the war 653

Hygiene and sanitation. —Disinfection of tubercular sputum. — Syphilis

in railroad employees 659

Tropical diseases. —Ulcerating granuloma 663

Eye, ear, .nose, and throat. — Frontal sinus drainage. —Anesthetics in throat

surgery. —Correction of nasal deformities

NOTES AND COMMENTS :

American Library Association.— Mental defects in the United States. —

"Tea-taster's " cough. — Scientific basis of carelessness. — "The

case against the prophylactic packet." —Treatment of leprosy. — Medical

training in London. —A new Army and Navy Club. — The Navy Mutual Aid

Association. — Medical school of the University of Virginia. —A new medical

quarterly. —Solar therapy. — Novarsenobenzol subcutaneously. —Economic loss

from rats. —The flight of mosquitoes. —A medical centenarian. — A French hospital

ship. — Potassium-mercuric-iodide.— Dermatitis in industrial work. —

Radium.— A twelfth century epitaph 663

REPORTS :

Arsenical preparations used intravenously.

By Captain E. S. Bogert, Medical Corps, U. S. N 679

Venereal disease in the Dominican Republic.

By Lieutenant J. W. Vann and Lieutenant B. Groesbeck, Medical Corps, U.

S. N 681

American legation guard, Managua, Nicaragua.

By Lieutenant Commander F. F. Murdock, Medical Corps, U. S. N_ 684

Sanitary conditions in Vladivostok.

By Lieutenant A S. Judy, Medical Corps, U. S. N 689

Hospital records.

Commander H. W. Smith, Medical Corps, U. S. N 698

HOSPITAL RECORDS.

By Commander E. U. Reed, Medical Corps, U. S. N 706

A DEATH FROM ETHER DUE TO STATUS LYMPHATICUS.

By Captain A. W. Dunbar, Medical Corps, U. S. N 714

Medical prophylaxis against venereal diseases.

By Lieutenant P. W. Dreifus, Medical Corps, U. S. N 715

BOOK NOTICES 718

INDEX 721

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Table of Contents

Number 1

Preface v

Special articles:

The medical man and vital statistics, by J. D. Gatewood 1

A plea for more liberal nomenclature for the Naval Medical Service, by A.

W. Dunbar 22

Acid fast bacilli in the circulating blood of lepers, by G. B. Crow 26

The tenth convention of the second Hague conference of 1907, and its

relation to the evacuation of the wounded in naval warfare, by F. L. Pleadwell (second

paper) 34

A study of 3,268 venereal prophylactic treatments, by R. C. Holcomb and

D. C. Gather 52

A year's experience in venereal prophylaxis on board the U. S. S.

Georgia, July 1, 1910-June 30, 1911, by C. L. Moran 60

The recent advances in the prophylaxis and treatment of typhoid fever, by

M. W. Baker 62

United States Medical School laboratories:

The Naval Medical School collections, by P. E. Garrison 69

Additions to the helminthological collection, United States Naval

Medical School, September-November, 1911 72

Additions to the pathological collection, United States Naval Medical School,

September-November, 1911 72

Suggested devices:

Modification in shoe for prevention of blisters on the heel, by W. S.

Sims. . 73

An improved cot for hospital ships and sick bays aboard ship, by E. M. Blackwell

73

Clinical notes:

Umbilical hernia, by H. F. Strine 76

Report of a case resembling gangosa in which treponema pertenuis was present,

by P. S. Rossiter 78

Bunion operations, by A. M. Fauntleroy 79

Late positive Wassermann in syphilis and tuberculosis, by W. B. Grove.

... 81

Salvarsan in frambcesia, by G. F. Cottle 82

Salvarsan in filariasis, by G. F. Cottle 84

Current comment:

The twentieth annual meeting of the Association of Military Surgeons.

... 89

The ninth international Red Cross conference 90

Typhoid fever 91

Yellow fever at Honolulu 92

Opening of the Naval Hospital, Great Lakes training station, 92

Progress in medical sciences:

General medicine. —Pulmonary tuberculosis, experiences with, during

last year; possible infectious origin of pernicious anemia; differential diagnosis

in albuminuria; observations on urine of marathon runners; alcohol in dermal

therapeutics; baldness and its cures; relationship of syphilis and

tuberculosis; present status of salvarsan therapeutics; effect of salvarsan upon

the heart; utilization of Wassermann reaction in the Navy; possible specific

treatment of diabetes mellitus; bromidrosis and hyperidrosis

of the feet; by A. W. Dunbar and J. L. Neilson 93

Surgery. —Open treatment of transverse fracture of femoral shaft; cure

of prostatic obstruction; organization at main battle dressing station; by R.

Spear 107

Hygiene and sanitation. — A strength and endurance test; dangers to

health from automobile engine gases; decomposing power of bacteria in water; epidemic

due to Gartner bacillus; bacteriological investigation of ice cream in Boston;

emergency rations; accidents of decompression; merits of low protein diet;

concerning particles of albuminous substance in exhaled air; influence of

storage and preservatives upon dissolved oxygen in waters; bacteriological

examinations of oysters; by H. G.

Beyer and C.N. Fiske 113

Tropical medicine. — Preliminary report on method of preventing pernicious

malaria; recent advances in knowledge of sleeping sickness; experiments on the

cause of beriberi; action of quinine, salvarsan and atoxyl on Plasmodium

prrecox in canary birds; relationship between Gl. Morsitans and sleeping

sickness; by E. R. Stitt 124

Pathology and bacteriology. —Detection of tubercle bacilli in sputum; method

of infection in pneumonic plague; study of arteritis of syphilitic origin;

isolation of typhoid, paratyphoid and dysentery bacilli; bacteriological

examination of stools in quarantine protection against cholera; local

production of antibodies; by M. E. Higgins 130

Medical zoology.—Etiology of pellagra, by P. E. Garrison 136

Chemistry and pharmacy. —Determination of arsenic in urine after administering

salvarsan; method for detection of salvarsan; method for estimation of gastric

acidity; absorption of chloroform and other chlorinated hydrocarbons by men and

animals; by E. W. Brown and O. G. Ruge... 136

Eye, ear, nose, and throat. —Acute nephritis following acute tonsillitis;

when to remove tonsils and what operation to be used; recent contributions to

knowledge of sympathetic ophthalmia; protest against indiscriminate use of

organic compounds of silver in ophthalmic practice; two cases of iritis treated

with salvarsan ; a quick and easy method for removal of eyeball; by E. M. Shipp

138

Reports and letters:

Sanitary report on Hampton Roads, Norfolk, and vicinity, by G. A. Lung.

149

Recent pellagra clinic at Columbia, S. C, by P. E. Garrison 152

A visit to the Finsen Institute, by R. B. Williams 157

Number 2

Preface vi

Special articles:

Lead poisoning from inhalation of red-lead laden dust. The possible frequency

of lead encephalopathy in such cases, by E. R. Stitt 161

Loss of life by drowning in naval warfare, by T. W. Richards 166

Etiology of gangosa, based upon complement fixation, by E. P. Halton. .

. 190

Further observations on the insane of the Navy, by Heber Butts 193

Roaches and their extermination by the use of sodium fluorid, by M. F. Gates

212

The prophylaxis of boils, by E. W. Phillips 214

Extract from sanitary report, U. S. S. Washington, by J. H. Iden 215

Comment, by J. D. Gatewood 216

Damage table for physical disability in the United States Navy, 1910. International

nomenclature, by C. N. Fiske 217

Indications for intubation and tracheotomy, by G. B. Trible 219

Report on methods of administration of and results obtained from

"salvarsan." Based upon the treatment of over 200 cases of syphilis

at the naval hospital, Mare Island, Cal., by J. A. Biello 221

Method used at naval hospital, Chelsea, Mass., by F. M. Furlong 225

Method used at naval hospital, Norfolk, Va., by W. M. Garton 225

Method used at naval hospital, New York, N. Y., by C. M. Oman 226

Distribution of tubercle bacilli in the sputa of tuberculous patients,

by R. W. King 227

United States Naval Medical School laboratories:

Specimens added to the helminthological collection, December, 1911-February,

1912 229

Specimens added to the pathological collection, December,

1911-February, 1912 231

Miscellaneous collection, December, 1911-February, 1912 231

Suggested devices:

An incubator for gelatine cultures, by F. L. Letts 233

Clinical notes:

Report of a case of perforation of the sigmoid by an ulcer, in a case

of dysentery (Flexner-Strong), by Raymond Spear and M. E. Higgins 235

Plastic operation of lip, by R. A. Bachmann 236

Removal of entire fibula, by J. L. Neilson 236

Frontal sinusitis, followed by double mastoiditis; operations, by G. B.

Trible 239

"Salvarsan " in syphilis, leprosy, and yaws, by W. M. Kerr

240

Two surgical cases occurring on the U. S. S. South Carolina, by R. B. Williams

242

1. Abscess of prostate, gangrene of scrotum, pyemia, death.

2. Tonsillitis; tonsillectomy, acute nephritis, uremia.

Surgical cases from the naval hospital, Norfolk, Va., by H. F. Strine

243

1. Lacerated kidney, nephrectomy.

2. Gastro-enterostomy.

3. Cholecystocolostomy; external biliary fistula; stricture of common duct.

4. Multiple abscess of liver.

Editorial comment:

Yellow fever on the Yorktown, by C. F. Stokes 249

The Naval Medical Bulletin 260

Hospital ships 250

Paresis and "line of duty " 253

Progress in medical sciences:

General medicine. — Relation of so-called Brill's disease to typhus

fever. Diagnostic importance of hemoptysis. Acute dilatation of the stomach in

pneumonia. Reaction induced by antityphoid vaccination, by A. W. Dunbar and J.

L. Neilfon 255

Surgery. —Organization of the medical service at the main dressing

station in battle, by H. G. Beyer. The error of overlooking ureteral or renal stones

under the diagnosis of appendicitis. The incision for lumbar

exposure of the kidney. Iodine as the sole dressing for operation

wounds. A review of recent methods for the radical cure of hernia. Studies in peritoneal

adhesions. The surgical treatment of colitis, by Raymond Spear and C. M. Oman

259

Hygiene and sanitation. —A symposium on the effects of athletics on

young men, by J. L. Neilson. Mosquito larvicides, by E. R. Stitt. Sur une cause

possible du gout empyreumatique de l'eau de boisson a bord des navires de

guerre, by C. L. Moran. Organic matter in expired air. Tests for freshness of

milk, by E. W. Brown. Experiments in book disinfection. The purification of

water by anhydrous chlorine. Oral hygiene (preliminary contribution on the care

of the mouth). On the survival of specific microorganisms in pupae and imagines

of musca domestica raised from experimentally infected larvae : Experiments

with B. typhosus. On the varieties of B. coli associated with the house fly, by

C. N. Fiske. 271

Tropical medicine. —A few words on the distribution of smallpox,

tuberculosis, and typhoid in the tropics. Do mosquitoes require blood as

nourishment in the development of their eggs? By E. R. Stitt 279

Pathology and bacteriology. —An attempt to differentiate the

diphtheroid group of organisms. The period of infectivity of the blood of

measles; an experimental demonstration of the presence of the virus of measles

in the mixed buccal and nasal secretions; the nature of the virus of measles; the

infectivity of the secretions and disquamating scales of measles. A new

conception of immunity. Complement in human serum, by M. E. Higgins 281

Medical zoology. —A comparative study of the ameba in the Manila water supply,

in the intestinal tract of healthy persons and in amebic dysentery. The Rocky

Mountain spotted fever tick, with special reference to the problems of its

control in Bitter Root Valley, Montana, by P. B. Garrison 283

Chemistry and pharmacy. —Some considerations on the absorption and excretion

of drugs. Detection of albumoses in urine. Estimation of free HC1 in gastric

contents by capillary method. Detection of albumin in urine by Merck's tablets.

Estimation of acetone in animal liquids. New test for bile in urine. Method for

determining formaldehyde. Indirect method for determining total volume of

gastric contents, by E. W. Brown and O. G. Ruge 286

Eye, ear, nose, and throat.—Abscess of the nasal septum. Observations upon

the treatment of gonorrheal conjunctivitis in the adult, by E. M. Shipp 291

Reports and letters:

Yellow fever occurring on board the U. S. S. Yorktown at Guayaquil, Ecuador,

extracts from a report on cases of, by C. B. Camerer 295

Report on military surgery at Foochow, China, by J. G. Omelvena 300

Notes on Camp Meyer, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by L. W. Johnson 303

Special report on the general surgical department, Naval Hospital,

Norfolk, Va. Anesthesia. Prophylaxis of wound infection. Appendicitis. Post-operative

treatment, by H. F. Strine 305

American Public Health Association meeting (abstract of report on), by W.

H. Short 309

Number 3

Preface v

Special articles:

Leprosy, with notes on, and illustrations of the cases as they occurred

in the Tumon Leper Colony, Guam, Marianas, during the months of October and

November, 1911, by W. M. Kerr, assistant surgeon, United States Navy 313

Photographs of lepers, by G. F. Cottle, passed assistant surgeon,

United States Navy 342

Vision in relation to marksmanship, by E. J. Grow, surgeon, United States

Navy 344

Technique of a Wassermann test in which guinea-pig complement is not required;

Emery technique; Noguchi reagents, by E. R. Stitt, medical inspector, United

States Navy 362

Some minor sanitary defects in modern battleships, and their correction,

by F. L. Pleadwell, surgeon, United States Navy 309

Additional report of cases with unusual symptoms caused by contact with

some unknown variety of jelly fish, by E. H. Old, passed assistant surgeon,

United States Navy 377

The effects of high temperature on the personnel of the fire rooms of

naval vessels with special reference to heat cramps (myalgia thermica), by W.

L. Mann, passed assistant surgeon, United States Navy 380

Detection of methyl alcohol, by C. Schaffer, hospital steward, United States

Navy 392

United States Naval Medical School laboratories:

Additions to the helminthological collection 395

Additions to the pathological collection 395

Additions to the miscellaneous collection 396

Suggested devices:

A bunk locker, a tray, and a bracket stool for use in sick bays and

wards of hospital ships, by E. M. Blackwell, surgeon, United States Navy 397

A method for use in opsonic index work and vaccine standardization, by R.

E. Weaver, hospital steward, United States Navy 398

Clinical notes:

A note on a case of fish poisoning in Guam, by W. M. Kerr, assistant

surgeon, United States Navy 401

Two cases of climatic bubo, by E. W. Phillips, assistant surgeon,

United States Navy 402

Rupture of the left kidney (nephrectomy), by A. M. Fauntleroy, surgeon,

United States Navy 404

Abscess of the liver in a young infant, by F. E. Sellers, passed

assistant surgeon, United States Navy 405

Appendectomy on a haemophiliac, by B. F. Jenness, passed assistant surgeon.

United States Navy 407

Editorial comment:

New accounting system at naval hospitals, by Surg. Gen. C. F. Stokes, United

States Navy 411

The relations of the American National Red Cross with the Medical

Department of the Navy in war 413

Progress in medical sciences:

General medicine. — Physical exercise and blood pressure. On the

identity of typhus fever and Brill's disease. Studies on the virus of typhus,

by A. W. Dunbar and J. L. Neilson 417

Surgery.— The prevention and treatment of ventral hernia. Technique and

remote results of vascular anastomoses. Accidents and deaths from exploratory

puncture of the pleura. The control of bleeding in brain operations. Surgical

pathology of the stomach and duodenum, by R. Spear and C. M. Oman 421

Hygiene and sanitation.— The physiological influence of ozone.

Influence of benzine, toluene, and light and heavy "benzines" on the

organism, by E. W. Brown. Disinfection experiments with perautan and paragan. A

new and rapid method of bacteriological water examination, its applicability to

the testing of filtered and well water. A mosquito larvacide disinfectant and

the methods of its standardization. The sterilization of milk bottles with

calcium hypochlorite. Apyrexial malaria carriers, by H. G. Beyer and O. N.

Kiske 431

Tropical medicine. — Cell-inclusions in the blood of a case of

blackwater fever. The estimation of the specific gravity of the blood and its

value in the treatment of cholera, by E. R. Stitt 436

Pathology and bacteriology.— A study of 35 strains of streptococci

isolated from samples of milk, by C. N. Fiske. Method for the quantitative determination

of fecal bacteria, by E. W. Brown. Pure cultivation of

spirochieta refringens, by M. E. Higgins 438

Chemistry and pharmacy. —On the diagnostic value of colloidal nitrogen

in the urine in cases of carcinoma. Determination of the quantity of residual

urine. Clarification of the urine in the estimation of sugar. On the excretion

of formaldehyde, ammonia, and hexamethylenamine. Organic compounds of the

aromatic series as cholagogucs, by E. W. Brown and O. G. Ruge 439

Eye, ear, nose, and throat. — An operation for glaucoma. Notes from an Indian

eye clinic. In the report from the St. Louis Ophthalmological Society in a

discussion on the antiseptic and germicidal properties of the silver salts.

Notes of three cases illustrating infection of the accessory sinuses by entry

of water into the nose during bathing. Three cases of chronic suppurative

otitis media, by G. B. Trible 441

Reports and letters:

An account of the sinking of the Japanese battleship Hatsuse in the

late Russo-Japanese war, by F. L. Pleadwell, surgeon, United States Navy.. 447

Organization, camp management, and sanitation in effect at the marine barracks,

Camp Elliott, Isthmus Canal Zone, Panama, April 15, 1910, to February 26, 1912,

by S. D. Butler, major, United States Marine Corps.. 458

Sanitary conditions in Samoa, by R. U. Reed, passed assistant surgeon, United

States Navy 462

Sanitary conditions in Guam, by C. P. Kindleberger, surgeon, United

States Navy 464

Number 4

Preface v

Special articles

A description of recent hospital construction in the United States

Navy, by A. W. Dunbar, surgeon, United States Navy 473

A few general principles of hospital construction, by F. W. Southworth,

S. B., architect 523

Ventilation of warships, by R. H. Robinson, naval constructor, United States

Navy 529

Plans and description of a hospital ship for the United States Navy, by

E. M. Blackwell, surgeon, United States Navy 539

A report on the prevalence of framboesia (yaws) in Guam, and its

connection with the etiology of gangosa, by W. M. Kerr, assistant surgeon,

United States Navy 549

Diagnosis and dosage in hookworm cases in the Navy, by J. F. Leys,

surgeon, United States Navy 552

Nitrous oxide-oxygen anesthesia, by H. F. Strine, surgeon, United

States Navy 555

A theoretical discussion of the character and genesis of thermic

myospasms, with further observations on myalgia thermica, by W. L. Mann, passed

assistant surgeon. United States Navy 558

Eight hundred and twenty complement-fixation tests on 461 patients, by E.

P. Huff, passed assistant surgeon. United States Navy 562

United States Naval Medical School laboratories:

Additions to the helminthological collection 575

Additions to the pathological collection 575

Additions to the miscellaneous collection 575

Suggested devices:

A simple method of securing shelf-bottle stoppers during target

practice, by H. S. Coombs, hospital apprentice, first class. United States

Navy. . . . 577

The rat guard used in the Philippine Islands, by C. Fox, passed assistant

surgeon, United States Public Health Service 577

Clinical notes:

Case reports from the United States naval hospital, Philadelphia, by G.

B. Crow, L. W. Johnson, A. J. Toulon, and C. W. Smith, passed assistant surgeons,

United States Navy 579

A case of very large stone in kidney without acute symptoms.

Pneumonia following an injury.

The effect of salvarsan on the average number of sick days from

syphilis.

A case of extensive adenocarcinoma.

A case of exceptionally severe syphilitic Irido-cyclltis with marked

changes in the interior of the eye and total loss of light perception.

An interesting case of gunshot wound, by J. M. Minter, passed assistant

surgeon, United States Navy 584

Fracture of humerus by muscular action, by R. G . Davis, assistant

surgeon, United States Navy 585

Editorial comment :

Participation of Medical Officers in Professional Conferences 587

Sight tests for seamen 588

Recent legislation affecting the Medical Department of the Navy 589

Naval Hospital Corps 590

Progress in medical sciences:

General medicine. —Bier's hypersemic treatment in gonorrhceal epididymitis,

by C. N . Fiske. Normal human blood serum in obstetric practice. The cutaneous

reaction of syphilis. Clinical experience with neosalvarsan. By A. W. Dunbar

and J. L. Neilson 591

Surgery. — Local anesthesia in traumatic surgery. Surgery of the bile

ducts. Vanadium steel bone plates and screws. Observations on the diagnosis of

renal tuberculosis, the indications for nephrectomy in its treatment, and the

technic of the operation. Pyloroplasty. By R. Spear and C. M. Oman 596

Hygiene and sanitation. —Notes on the ventilation of troopships in the Tropics.

The structure and functions of the foot. By H. G. Beyer and C. N. Fiske 608

Tropical medicine. — The antineuritic bases of vegetable origin in

relation to beriberi, with a method of isolation of torulin, the antineuritic

base of yeast, by J. L. Neilson 609

Pathology and bacteriology. —Double-stain method for the polar bodies

of diphtheria bacilli, by O. G. Huge. The examination of diphtheria specimens;

a new technique in staining with toluidin blue. A critical

study of the organisms cultivated from the lesions of human leprosy,

with a consideration of their etiological significance. By M. E. Higgins 611

Medical zoology. — Trypanosoma rhodesiense, a second species of

trypanosome producing sleeping sickness in man, by J. L. Neilson 612

Chemistry and pharmacy.— Studies in bacterial metabolism, by C. N. Fiske.

The definition of normal urine. The estimation of indican in urine. A new

method for the determination of total nitrogen in urine.

On the determination of ammonia in urine. By E. W. Brown and O. G. Ruge

613

Eye, ear, nose, and throat. —Tonsillectomy with consideration of its

complications. Protargol in antisepsis of the visual apparatus. The trachoma

question. Keratitis as a cause of myopia. By G. B. Trible 617

Reports and letters:

Fourth Provisional Regiment, United States Marines, Camp Thomas, North

Island, San Diego, Cal., by R. E. Hoyt, passed assistant surgeon, United States

Navy 623

Marine Expeditionary Force, Pekin, China, by R. B. Henry, assistant surgeon,

United States Navy 632