Table of Contents

 

Number 1

 

PREFACE v

NOTICE TO SERVICE CONTRIBUTORS vi

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

The Trend of Venereal Disease in the United States Fleet.

By K. C. Melhorn, Captain, Medical Corps, United States Navy  1

Human Yaws.

By C. S. Butler, Rear Admiral, Medical Corps, United States Navy 6

Present Day Concepts of Endocrinology.

By Paul F. Dickens, Lieutenant Commander, and Omar J. Brown, Lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Navy 8

Active Immunization Against Tetanus with Tetanus Toxoid.

By W. W. Hall, Lieutenant Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy 33

The Navy and Appendicitis.

By Lucius W. Johnson, Captain, and Horace R. Boone, Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy 41

The Specialist Versus the Naval Surgeon.

By George F. Cottle, Captain, Medical Corps, United States Navy 52

Aviation Medicine.

By John W. Vann, Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy 55

An Evaluation of a Modified Schafer Method of Artificial Respiration.

By F. S. Johnson, Commander, Medical Corps, United States

Navy, and J. A. Hawkins, D. Sc., and O. D. Yarbrough,

Lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Navy 60

The Use of Oxygen in the Treatment of Compressed-Air Illness.

By Albert R. Behnke, Lieutenant, junior grade, Medical Corps, United States Navy, and Louis A. Shaw, from the Department of Physiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 61

Pathological Fractures.

By Foster H. Bowman, Lieutenant Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy, retired 73

CLINICAL NOTES:

A Case for Diagnosis 81

Sarcoma of the Skin, Malignant Glomic Tumors.

By Albert Soiland, Commander, Medical Corps, United States Naval Reserve 85

SUGGESTED DEVICES:

A New First Aid Emergency Outfit.

By C. B. Camerer, Captain, Medical Corps, United States Navy, and Chief Pharmacist's Mate H. Z. Dudley, United States Navy 87

NAVAL RESERVE 89

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

The Twelfth Surgeon General, United States Navy— American College of Surgeons and College of Physicians- —-A Case For Diagnosis — Control of Syphilis —Olive Oil as an Antidote in Phenol Poisoning—Iso-Elixir —-Lead in Body Fluid—Tracheobronchitis 95

BOOK NOTICES:

Syphilis, Hinton —Basal Metabolism, Dubois —Psychiatry, Sadler — Mayo Clinic Volume —-Heart Disease, Levine — Vascular Disorders of the Limbs, Lewis —Endocrinology, Wolf—Art of Treatment,

Houston —Hygiene and Sanitation, Price —Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat, Parkinson —Food-Born Infection, Tanner— Exophthalmic Goiter, Bran —Preventive Medicine, Boyd —Obstetrics, Williams— Diseases of the Eye, Berens— Materia Medica and Pharmacology, McGuigan— Microbiology and Pathology, Carter —Oral Hygiene, Bunting—Radiodontia, Thompson —Disinfection and Sterilization, McCulloch —The Patient and the Weather, Petersen —Chemical Procedures, Mattice—Psychological Medicine, Gordon — Lehrbuch Der Militarhygiene, Waldmann, Hoffmann — Materia Medica and Therapeutics, Parker 101

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE:

Toxic Effects of Arsenical Compounds Employed in the Treatment of Diseases in the United States Navy, 1935.

By C. S. Stephenson, Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy, and E. H. Wingo, Chief Pharmacist's Mate, United States Navy 111

HEALTH OF THE NAVY—STATISTICS 160

 

Number 2

 

PREFACE v

NOTICE TO SERVICE CONTRIBUTORS vi

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

Naval Delinquency.

By H. O. Cozby, lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Navy.. 157

Immunity in Syphilis.

By C. S. Butler, rear admiral, Medical Corps, United States Navy. 173

Present Day Concepts of Endocrinology.

By Paul F. Dickens, lieutenant commander, and Omar J. Brown, lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Navy 176

Lymphedema of the Extremities.

By Edgar V. Allen, M. D., Division of Medicine, The Mayo Clinic, and Irwin L. Norman, lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Navy 196

An Estimate of Arsenoxide (Mapharsen) in the Treatment of Early Syphilis.

By R. P. Parsons, commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy. 207

The Application of Measurements of Nitrogen Elimination to the Problem of Decompressing Divers.

By Albert R. Behnke, lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Navy 219

An Analysis of Eighteen Syphilitic Reinfections.

By J. A. Millspaugh, lieutenant, junior grade, Medical Corps, United States Navy 240

Principles Underlying the Diagnosis and Treatment of Psychiatric Cases.

By James L. McCartney, lieutenant commander, United States Naval Reserve 244

CLINICAL NOTES:

Report of a Case of Adenocarcinoma of Caecum with Rapid Metastasis.

By Thomas G. Hays, lieutenant, junior grade, Medical Corps, United States Navy 253

Report of a Case of Fatal Poisoning from Sodium Fluoride.

By M. R. Wirthlin, lieutenant, junior grade, Medical Corps, United States Navy 255

Renal Dystopia.

By John F. Luten, lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Navy 256

NAVAL RESERVE 259

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

The Thirteenth Surgeon General, United States Navy—Caution in Regard to the Use of the Provocative Wassermann — A Census of the Periodic Literature on Syphilis —Clinical Evidence of the Toxic Effects from Injections of Organic Arsenical Compounds — Some New Methods Suggested in the Treatment of Burns —Bound Sets of the United States Naval Medical Bulletin —The Discovery and Isolation of the Active Principle of Ergot—Research on Seasick ness —The Wellcome Prize —American Neisserian Society 261

 

Number 3

 

PREFACE V

NOTICE TO SERVICE CONTRIBUTORS - vi

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

Seasickness.

By Lincoln Humphreys, Lieutenant Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy 293

Dementia Pugilistica.

By J. A. Millspaugh, Lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Navy - 207

Liquid Insecticides, Report of Comparative Study of.

By F. S. Johnson, Commander, Medical Corps, United States

Navy, and Arthur G. Vallee, Pharmacist's Mate, First Class, United States Navy.  303

Some Diseases of the Peripheral Arteries.

By Edgar V. Allen, M. D., Division of Medicine, The Mayo Clinic, and Irvin L. Norman, Lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Navy 309

A Review of Trachoma.

By O. W. Cole, Lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Navy. 322

CLINICAL NOTES:

Staphylococcus Spinal Leptomeningitis.

By E. M. Wade, Lieutenant, junior grade, Medical Corps, United States Navy, and F. H. O'Neil, First Lieutenant, Medical Reserve Corps, United States Army 329)

Lymphopathia Venereum.

By W. S. Rizk, Lieutenant, junior grade, Medical Corps, United States Navy 331

Pneumococcub Septicema Complicating Peritonsillar Abscess with Specific Serum Therapy.

By James J. V. Cammisa, Lieutenant, junior grade, Medical Corps, United States Navy 339

Immobilization of Fracture of the Clavicle by Means of Plaster of Paris.

By Robert E. Baker, Lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Navy 343

Report of an Unusual Case of Abnormal Dentition.

By Charles F. Hoyt, Lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Navy 344

NAVAL RESERVE 347

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

The Tenth Surgeon General, United States Navy—Articles of Special Merit Published in 1936—Use of Glycerine in Medicine —Annual Meeting of the Association of Military Surgeons —Precipitin, Test for Trichinosis 349

BOOK NOTICES: Page

William Withering, Roddis —Dispensatory of the United States— Autopsy Diagnosis and Technique, Saphir —Diseases of the Heart and Arteries, Herrmann — Management of Obstetric Difficulties,

Titus—Precription Writing, Solomon —Diseases of Nose and Throat, Imperatori 353

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE:

Sanitary Report of Swains Island with Historical Note.

By C. S. Stephenson, Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy 357

Food Poisoning.. 365

HEALTH OF THE NAVY— STATISTICS 367

 

Number 4

 

PREFACE.. vii

NOTICE TO SERVICE CONTRIBUTORS viii

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

Quantitative Study of Mental and Neuro-Muscular Reactions as Influenced by Increased Air Pressure.

By C. W. Shilling, Lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Navy, and W. W. Willgrube, Chief Pharmacist's Mate, United States Navy 373

The Relation of Carbon Dioxide to Artificial Respiration.

By F. S. Johnson, Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy. ------- 380

Present-Day Concepts of Endocrinology.

By Paul F. Dickens, Lieutenant Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy, and Omar J. Brown, Lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Navy 387

The Treatment of Malaria With Atabrine Followed by Plasmochin.

By C. R. Ball, Lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Navy.. 418

A Consideration of the Mechanism and Treatment of Surgical Shock.

By T. R. Austin, Lieutenant (Junior Grade), Medical Corps, United States Navy 426

To What Extent is Reality Adjustment Concerned in the Selection of the Flying Trainee?

By John W. Vann, Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy 434

Copper Sulphate Treatment of Trichophytosis.

By James B. Moloney, Lieutenant Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy .. 440

Oral Diagnosis as a Procedure in Indexing General Diseases Manifested in the Mouth.

By Curtiss W. Schantz, Lieutenant, Dental Corps, United States Navy 441

Hepatitis, Acute.

By Julian Love, Lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Navy. 446

A Study of Syphilis in the Navy.

By D. T. Prehn, Lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Navy. 450

An Evaluation of Recent Trends in the Medical Treatment of Peptic Ulcer.

By Edgar Ricen, Lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Navy 460

CLINICAL NOTES:

The "Physician's Chancre."

By Bartlett C. Shackford, Lieutenant Commander, Medical Corps, United States Naval Reserve, Long Beach, California 469

Extra-Genital Chancre —Report of Case With Unusual Location.

By C. W. Stelle, Lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Navy. 470

Gonorrheal Ophthalmia: Report of a Case Treated by Hyper

thermia. Page

By Jack Terry, Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy. 472

Cancer of the Penis.

By Willard S. Sargent, Lieutenant Commander, Medical Corps,

United States Navy 473

Trichinosis, With a Report of Two Cases.

By Maurice Joses, Lieutenant Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy, and John J. Wells, Lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Navy 475

Diverticulum of the Stomach.

By Paul Richmond, Jr., Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy 480

Acute Intestinal Obstruction Due to Roundworms.

By Willard S. Sargent, Lieutenant Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy 482

Report of Three Cases of Agranulocytosis.

By C. L. Blew, Lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Navy. 484

SUGGESTED DEVICES:

A Poison Antidote Box.

By James D. Blackwood, Jr., Lieutenant Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy 489

NAVAL RESERVE 491

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

The eleventh Surgeon General, United States Navy—Certificate of merit awarded Navy exhibit —Combination of Schafer and Silvester methods of artificial respiration —Dientamoebe Fragilis—Liver therapy in sprue—Effect of fatigue on adjustment of the eye to near and far vision —Tuberculosis in wild voles—American College of Surgeons—American College of Physicians —Military Surgeons' Convention—American Board of Otolaryngology —Human machine in deep-sea diving —Percentage solutions —Influenza —Digest of treatment 493

BOOK NOTICES:

Who Gave the World Syphilis, Holcomb — Modern Treatment and Formulary, Mullen—Diseases of the Coronary Arteries and Cardiac Pain, Levy—Heart Disease, White —Endocrinology, Werner — Principles of Pharmacy, Amy —Physical Diagnosis, Major —The Art of Compounding, Scoville —Urological Roentgenology, Wesson and Ruggles —Intellectual Functions of the Frontal Lobes, Brickner— Eugenical Sterilization —Laboratory Outline in Filterable Viruses, Hyde and Gardner —Dietetics for the Clinician, Bridges — Applied Dietetics, Blum—Oral Diagnosis and Treatment Planning, Miller —Textbook of Operative Dentistry, McGehee —Allergic Diseases, Balyeat and Bowen —Physical Therapeutic Methods in Otolaryngology, Hollender —Introduction to Comparative Biochemistry, Baldwin —Synopsis of Ano-Rectal Diseases, Hirschman— Bright's Disease and Arterial Hypertension, Stone—Ocular Therapeutics, Gifford— Manual of Biological Assaying, Munch— Essentials of Electrocardiography, Ashman —Inhalation Anesthesia, Guedel —Ten Million Americans Have It, Becker —Taylor's Practice of Medicine, Poulton — Clinical Laboratory Diagnosis, Levison— Nicaragua, United States Medical Corps 507

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE:

Toxic Effects of Arsenical Compounds as Administered in the United States Navy in 1936 With Special Reference to Arsenical Dermatitis.

By C. S. Stephenson, Commander, Medical Corps, and E. H. Page Wingo, Chief Pharmacist's Mate, United States Navy 517

Water Supply —Naval Station, Guam 535

Food Poisoninq on Board the U. S. S. "Maryland" 541

Venereal Diseases—U. S. S. "Pennsylvania".. 542

Common Infectious Diseases of the Respiratory Type, First Quarter, 1937 - 545

STATISTICS:

Health of the Navy 560

Deaths Reported, Entire Navy, During the Quarter Ended March 31, 1937 554

Admissions for Injuries and Poisonings, First Quarter, 1937 655

Statistics Relative to Mental and Physical Qualifications of Recruits -- 556

INDEX... 557

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