Table of Contents

 

Number 1

 

PREFACE iii

NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORS iv

SPECIAL ARTICLES

Leukemia in Naval Personnel —Bruce L. Canaga, Jr., David A. Wood, Louis H. Dyke, Jr., and Albert M. Snell 1

Early Recognition and Treatment of Vascular Injuries—Howard K. Gray, Clifford D. Benson, Angus M. McDonald, and Herbert D. Adams. . 14

Symposium on Military Medicine Aboard the U.S.S. Samaritan

A. Early Treatment of Orthopedic Casualties on a Hospital Ship—Eugene L. Jezvett, Joseph F. Belair, Harold Lohnaas, and Joseph N. Hamm 25

B. Covering the Guillotined Stump—Eugene L. Jezvett 37

C. Anesthesia on a Hospital Ship—Russell W. Enos 40

D. Medical Problems of an Internist on a Hospital Ship—William P. Reed and Horatio B. Sweetser, Jr 43

E. Perforating Wounds of the Kidney —Edward M. Cannon 40

F. Punctate Cerebral Hemorrhage Following Thoracic Trauma — Harold Wood and Horatio B. Sweetser, Jr 51

G. Injuries of the Face and Neck in War Casualties—Henry J. Wiser and Morgan F. McAfee 57

H. Eye Injuries in War Casualties Aboard a Hospital Ship— Henry J. Wiser 67

I. Embarkation and Disembarkation of Hospital Ship Patients— Rudolph B. Toller 73

Pneumoroentgenarthrography as a Diagnostic Aid in Internal Derangements of the Knee—John B. Butts and John T. Mitchell 77

Effect of Bite-wing Roentgenograms on Navy Dental Examination Finding —James M. Dunning and George W. Ferguson 83

Seventy-eight Hundred Scarlet Fever Patients—John C. McMillan, Jr. . . 89

Convalescent Serum and Pooled Plasma in Communicable Diseases — Alwin C. Rambar . 93

Penicillin in Intrapleural Infection —Joseph Jacobson 97

CLINICAL NOTES

Dermoid Cyst of Rectovaginal Septum; Report of a Case—H. L. Pugh and Ausey H. Robnett 103

Poisonous Snake (Habu) Bites; Report of Eight Cases—Duane G. Sonneborn   105

Acute Appendicitis in Amebic Dysentery; Report of a Case—Louis E. Gilje and R. Starr Lampson 109

Alveolar Resorption Due to Occupational Trauma; Report of a Case— James L. Bradley 112

Simple Management of Open Bite; Report of a Case— Willard J. Goldring 113

Double Gallbladder; Report of a Case—Warne L. Haight 117

MEDICAL AND SURGICAL DEVICES

Casualty Handling on an Attack Transport —Lynn Fort, Jr 121

Small Type Skeletal Traction Apparatus —Benjamin J. Bond 124

New Type Surgical Hand Drill —Josef H. Giesen 127

BOOK NOTICES

The Management of Obstetric Difficulties, Titus—Men Under Stress, Grinker and Spiegel —Peripheral Nerve Injuries, Haymaker and Woodhall— The Basis of Clinical Neurology, Brock—Periodontal Diseases,

Merritt —Physical Diagnosis, Major—Dental Chronology, Prim —A Textbook of Ophthalmology, Gifford—Fundamentals of Pharmacology, Thicnes —Essentials of Body Mechanics in Health and Disease,

Goldthwait, Brown, Swaim, and Kuhns, with a chapter by Kerr—Disinfection and Sterilization, McCulloch—Jottings from a Cruise, Green.. 130

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE

Toxic Effects of Arsenical Compounds as Employed in the Treatment of Diseases in the United States Navy, 1944 —Otto L. Burton, George W. Justyn, and Laura T. Anderson 139

NOTES ON OUR RESERVE CONTRIBUTORS 163

 

Number 2

 

PREFACE iii

NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORS iv

SPECIAL ARTICLES

Protection of Feet Immersed in Cold Water —Clair R. Spealman 169

Study of 100 Cases -of Abdominal Pain in Service Women —Barnes Gillespie 179

Filariasis among White Immigrants in Samoa —Earle H. Webster 186

Asymptomatic Microfilaremia in the Caribbean Area —James H. Danglade and Patrick J. Fitzgerald 193

Acute Infective Jaundice (Acute Hepatitis) ; Occurrence at a North African Base Hospital —Horace It. Conaway and John F. Shaul …203

Treatment of Battle Casualties Resulting from a Dive-bombing Attack on an Essex-class Carrier — George B. Ribble, William G. Holford, Jr., Waldo S. Luedemann, and Jesse A. Riser 211

Radiation Sickness in Nagasaki; Preliminary Report —Joseph J. Timmes. 219

Suture of the Fingernail in Crushing Injuries — Wendell H. Hamriek 225

Coccidioidomycosis at U. S. M. C. Air Station, Mohave, California —Eugene F. Pfanner 229

Action of Supernatants from Combined Growth of Fusarium Solani and Pseudomonas Aeruginosa against the Tubercle Bacillus —Lloyd G. Carr- 237

Susceptibility of Serologically Typed Group A Streptococci to Penicillin — Clifford L. Spingarn and Arthur N. King 239

Electric Ophthalmia — Lewis K. Woodward, Jr 247

The Detection of Malingering: A Further Study— William A. Hunt 249

Mental Health of Men Discharged under the Point System ; A Preliminary Note— Vayle S. Briden and Walter L. Wilkins 255

Suppression of Early Syphilis by Subtherapeutic Dosage of Penicillin; Report of a Case—Jack L. Derzavis and Frederick T. Bond 259

Aids in Diagnosing Dental Pulp Diseases — Harold G. Green 262

Mercuric Cyanide in Treatment of Periodontal Disease —Harry B. Vincent 265

CLINICAL NOTES

Exostosis of Sacrum; Report of a Case —S. L. Pugh, George Crile, Jr., and Ausey H. Robnett 269

Meningococcemia with Waterhouse-Friderichsen Syndrome; Report of a Case Treated with Penicillin —Alvah L. Newcomb 273

Importance of Accuracy in Recording of First Dental Examination ; Report of Unusual Case of Identification — Francis O. Hen 275

Allergy to Penicillin Calcium Topically in Blepharoconjunctivitis —Karl B. Benkwith 279

Multiple Infection with Intestinal Parasites on a Naval Vessel —John R. Herman 281

MEDICAL AND SURGICAL DEVICES

Amphibious Tractors as Medical Facilities in the Field —Worth M. Gross. 285

Use of LSV for Evacuation and Care of Amphibious Combat Casualties — Abraham Kaplan 289

Seabee Sickbay—Franklin K. Holzicarth and William W. Thralls 292

Adjustable Back Rest for Field Hospital Cot— George L. Watkins 296

BOOK NOTICES

Modern Psychiatry, Sadler- — Psychiatry in Modern Warfare, Strecker and Appel —Pulmonary Tuberculosis in the Adult, Pinner —A Manual of Surgical Anatomy, Jones and Shepard; prepared under the auspices of the Committee on Surgery of the Division of Medical Sciences of the National Research Council—Cancer of the Colon and Rectum, Rankin and Graham — Facial Prosthesis, Bulbulian —Pharmacology and Dental Therapeutics, Prinz and Rickert; rewritten and revised by Dobbs — Operative Dentistry, Davis— Still My World, Foulk and "C. W." 298

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE

Arsenical Poisoning — Thomas K. Rathmell 305

Poisoning by Barracuda-like Fish in the Marianas —Samuel C. Cohen, James T. Emert, and Clark C. Goss 311

NOTES ON OUR RESERVE CONTRIBUTORS 318

 

Number 3

 

PREFACE iii

NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORS iv

SPECIAL ARTICLES

Traumatic Lesions of Peripheral Nerves; Experience in South Pacific Area—O. Hugh Fulcher 325

Fractures of the Patella — Herbert C. Fett and Maxwell J. Mackby 335

Chemical Sympathectomy in Neurovascular Lesions of the Upper Extremity — M. Hunter Brown 343

Diving at U. S. Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, R. I.;  With Emphasis on Cases of Bends Occurring during 1944 —J. Wilson Huston and William J. Alexander 348

Penicillin Lozenges in the Treatment of Vincent's Stomatitis —Lucian W. Strong, Jr., and Errol W. Willett 353

Modified Acrylic Inlay — Donald Callar 357

Skin Lesions of Rheumatic Fever— Alex D. Campbell, George C. Griffith, and William H. Leake 360

Problem of Recurrence in Rheumatic Fever—Charles T. Bingham, George C. Griffith, Robert F. Solley, and William H. Leake 367

Studies on the Primary Isolation of Influenza Viruses — The Personnel of U. S. Navy Medical Research Unit No. 1, University of California, Berkeley, California 369

Segregation of New and Old Recruits; Effect on an Epidemic—Epidemiology Unit No. 22 375

Deafness Due to Noises of Warfare —Jacob A. Weiss 381

Auditory Impairment Caused by Drugs—John C. Howard, Jr 387

A Surgical Service at a Shore Station Willard Bartleit, Jr 392

Experiences with X-ray on a Hospital Ship—Joseph F. Belair 397

CLINICAL NOTES

Potassium Acetate Therapy in Paroxysmal Auricular Fibrillation —Herbert Eichert 405

Dextrocardia in Association with a Short P-R Interval With Prolongation of the QRS Complex ; Report of a Case — William D. Stubenbord 412

Penicillin in Treatment of Madura Foot; Report of Two Cases — Howard E. Page Twining, Harold M. Dixon, and Fred D. Weidman 417

Dentinogenesis Imperfecta; Report of a Case —Morton A. Loring 430

Acute Atabrine Intoxication; Report of a Case — Robert C. Burnham 434

Surgical Method of Treating Tropical Ulcer— Ralph E. Scovel 439

MEDICAL AND SURGICAL DEVICES

A Simple Microtome for Use Aboard Ship— John J. Rupp and 0. Kosobud, Jr ... 441

Combined Stretcher and Treatment Bed for Transportation of Pelvic and Spinal Injuries —Francis M. Donehue 444

Fumeless Hot Acid Bath—Dudley G. Smith and Wallace W. Greenlaw 447

BOOK NOTICES

Bone-Grafting in the Treatment of Fractures, Armstrong —Surgery of the Spinal Column, Albee; assisted by McDowell and Powers —The Intervertebral Disc, Bradford and Spurting—Collected Papers of the Mayo Clinic and the Mayo Foundation, edited by Hewitt, Nevling, Miner, Eckman, and Smith —Treatment in General Practice, Beckman —A Handbook of Psychiatry, Karnosh; with the collaboration of Zuker — Clinical Biochemistry, Canlarow and Trumper —Nitrous Oxide-Oxygen Anesthesia, Clement— Virus as Organism, Burnet —Human Anatomy and Physiology, Millard and King—Surgical Nursing, Eliason, Ferguson, and Farrand .. _. 449

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE

Tsutsugamushi Disease; Epidemiology and Methods of Survey and Control — David II. Johnson and George W. Wharton ., 459

NOTES ON OUR RESERVE CONTRIBUTORS 473

 

Number 4

 

PREFACE iii

NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORS iv

SPECIAL ARTICLES

Dysentery Outbreak Aboard Naval Vessels in San Pedro Bay, Philippine Islands —Francis S. Cheever 479

Report of Two Hundred Necropsies on Natives of Okinawa —Eustace L. Benjamin . 495

Tropical Headache; Preliminary Report on Diagnosis and Treatment — Ward W. Woods and Jacob W. Stutzman 501

Headache: An Etiologic Approach with Special Reference to the So-called "Vacuum Headache" — H. Leonard Jones, Jr 507

Causes of Uniocular and Binocular Blindness in the U. S. Navy and U. S. Marine Corps in World War II—Clifford A. Swanson and Roy A. Stewart- 520

Shigellosis Studies; I. Etiology and Clinical Features—Charles M. Thompson, Benjamin V. White, Jr., and Walter L. Schafer 528

Epidemiologic Study of Epidemic Hepatitis — Ralph W. Getty 541

The Copper Ionization Treatment of Fungous Infections — William J. Lahey and James E. Byrnes 554

Abdominal War Wounds; Report of Ten Cases with Recovery— Frederic P. Shidler 558

CLINICAL NOTES

Horner's Syndrome Following Gunshot Wound of the Neck; Report of a Case— Paul I. Bookstaner 567

Aggravation of Bacterids by Penicillin, with a Theory as to Causation— John A. Heinlein, Cedric C. Carpenter, and Benedict J. Duffy, Jr 571

Ischemic Muscle Damage —John L. Tullis 576

Meningococcic Meningitis with Severe Cerebral Involvement; Recovery with Penicillin and Sulfadiazine; Report of a Case — F. Keith Bradford and Bruce L. Canaga, Jr 581

Malignant Granulocytopenia Treated with Penicillin; Report of a Case — Frank J. Manganaro 584

Plastic Reconstruction of Lip Following Gunshot Wound; Report of a Case —Jack V. Chambers 588

Glass Stirring Rod in Urethra and Bladder; Report of a Case — Hamden C. Moody and Myron H. Nourse 591

Electrocardiographic Changes in Carbon Tetrachloride Poisoning; Report of a Case — Horace B. Conaway and Frederick Hoven 593

MEDICAL AND SURGICAL DEVICES

Handle for Aural Speculum— Albert Harold Williams 596

Modification of the Zimmer Clamp for Cranial Skeletal Traction —Jonathan M. Williams 599

Streamlined Foot Baths—Edward F. Addenbrooke 602

BOOK NOTICES

Diseases of the Breast, Geschickler; with a special section on treatment, in collaboration with Copeland —Clinical Parasitology, Craig and Faust — The Care of the Neurosurgical Patient, Sachs — Government in Public Health, Mustard —The History of Surgical Anesthesia, Keys; with introductory essay by Leake, and concluding chapter by Gillespie — Dr. W. C. Rontgen, Glasser —Fractures of the Jaw, Ivy and Curtis 604

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE

Report of Food-borne Streptococcus Outbreak — Joseph D. Purvis, Jr., and George C. Morris 613

Soybean Milk-substitute as Used on Okinawa— Mayo L. Emory 616

NOTES ON OUR RESERVE CONTRIBUTORS. 619

 

Number 5

 

PREFACE iii

NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORS iv

SPECIAL ARTICLES

Medical Aspects of Blast— Edward Lyman Corey 623

Pinta-like Lesions Among Natives of Guam — Ralph F. Allen and Raymond Goodale 653

Impressions of a POW Medical Officer in Japanese Concentration Camps —Mack L. Gottlieb 663

Segregated Training for Recruits With Minor Orthopedic Disabilities and Complaints —Leon 0. Parker and Karl V. Kaess 676

The Psychotic Naval Prisoner— Otto Allen Will, Jr 680

The Mental Defective and the Under-Age Man in the Navy— H. Robert Otness . 690

Method for Practicing Preventive Psychiatry in a Naval Personnel Separation Center—Lester L. Hasenbush 696

Shigellosis Studies; II. Resistance of Shigella Flexneri III to Therapy With Sulfadiazine — Benjamin V. White, Jr., Charles M. Thompson, Walter L. Schafer, and Moses A. Jacobsen 704

Failure of Type Specific Streptococcus Pyogenes Vaccine To Prevent Respiratory Infections — The Personnel of Epidemiology Unit No. 22 709

Traumatic Rupture of Adductor Muscles of the Thigh —George Crile, Jr  719

Traumatic Ossifying Myositis —Campbell Howard 724

1,265 Pneumonia Cases With no Deaths —Gordon J. Kaske 731

Effect of Blood Donations on Blood Pressure of Hypertensives — J. Willard Edwards and Joseph L. Bordenave 736

Intravenous Administration of Morphine Tartrate — Frederick H. Bowen.. 740

CLINICAL NOTES

Unusual Conditions Aggravated by Seasickness; Report of Two Cases — Robert E. Pumphrey, Joseph R. Kuh, Maxwell A. Johnson and Albert L.

Day 742

Cutaneous Diphtheria —Jack V. Chambers ... 744

Penicillin Reaction; Report of a Case —Louis H. Krauel 749

Fulminating Septicemia Due to Staphylococcus Epidermidis; Report of a Case with Autopsy Findings —Christopher C. Shaw, Herman B. Williford, and Anne R. Bourke 751

Meningo coccic Conjunctivitis; Report of a Case —Frank B. Hays and Rodney D. Chamberlain 758

MEDICAL AND SURGICAL DEVICES

Method for Producing Soapy Solution in Whirlpool Tank —Louis B. Newman 761

Irrigation Apparatus for Resections—Lowell Rhodes 764

A Simple Type of Immersion Sterilizer —George L. Waikins 766

BOOK NOTICES

Rypins' Medical Licensure Examinations, Bierring, with the collaboration of a review panel —The Osseous System, Archer — American Pharmacy, edited by Lyman, with 7 associate advisory editors and 22 authors — Plaster of Paris Technique, Quigley — Key to Weaving, Black—Hermann Rorschach Psychodiagnostics, published posthumously by Oberholzer; translation and English edition by Lemkau and Kronenberg, and edited by Morgenthaler —Human Biochemistry, Kleiner —Hey Groves' Synopsis of

Surgery, edited by Wakeley — Diseases of the Nervous System, Walshe — An Index of Differential Diagnosis of Main Symptoms, by various authors; edited by French and assisted by Doulhwaite —A Textbook of Surgery, Homans —General and Plastic Surgery with Emphasis on War Injuries, Sheehan —Classic Descriptions of Disease, Major — Rorschach's Test II, Beck— Essentials of Neuro- Psychiatry, Olkon 768

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE

Mammals and Plague Distribution in the United States— Willard H. Lahnum 782

NOTES ON OUR RESERVE CONTRIBUTORS 786

 

Number 6

 

PREFACE iii

NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORS iv

SPECIAL ARTICLES

Malnutrition in Repatriated Prisoners of War— Frederick L. McDaniel, Benjamin V. White, Jr., and Charles M. Thompson 793

Observations and Data on Prevention of Poison-oak Dermatitis —George G. Novacovich 811

Comparative Evaluation of Preparations for the Prophylaxis and Treatment of Fungous Infections of Feet— Marion B. Sulzberger and Abram Kanof   822

Diagnosis of Infestation with "Sarcoptes scabiei" var. hominis—Eugene A. Hand 834

Aerodontalgia Occurring During Oxygen Indoctrination in the Low Pressure Chamber—Orr E. Reynolds, Hal C. Hutchins, A. Yvonne Werner, and Frank R. Philbrook 845

Malaria in Panama— Theodore H. Noehren 877

Partitioning of Barracks; Effect on Morbidity Rates from Respiratory Disease— The Personnel of Epidemiology Unit No. 22 885

Fractures of the Shaft of Femur; Early Treatment on a Hospital Ship— Harold Lusskin and Richard R. Hoffman 888

An Experience with Atabrine Aboard a Troop Transport —J. Leonard Goldner and Milton Berger 895

Dental Problems on Submarines — Waller B. Martin 898

Shigellosis Studies; III. Clinical Observations on Dysentery Caused by "Shigella flexneri III" — Charles M. Thompson and Benjamin V.

White, Jr 901

CLINICAL NOTES

Trivial Symptoms Following Extensive Skull Fracture; Report of a Case —Irwin Perlmutter , 911

Ophthalmic Disease Treated with Penicillin; Report of Two Cases— Arnold F. Sammis, Jr 912

Hookworm Disease in Infants; Report of Two Fatal Cases — William Stubenbord and Ralph F. Allen - 915

Treatment of Infected Sebaceous Cysts—Jack Fishman 917

A Heavy-duty, High-capacity, Portable Suction Pump for Surgical Use — H. Merrill Shaw 919

EDITORIALS

Prevention of Accidental Poisoning 920

Psychiatry and the Problem of Homosexuality 920

The Frequency of Twins and Multiple Births 922

BOOK NOTICES

Howell's Textbook of Physiology, edited by Fulton, with the collaboration of Barron, Brobeck, Clarke, Cowgill, Gardner, Hitchcock, Lamport, Lloyd, Nims, and Ruch —Surgical Treatment of the Motor-skeletal System, edited by Bancroft and M array — An Introduction to Essential Hypertension, Herndon — War Neuroses, Grinker and Spiegel —Psychology for Nurses, Cunningham —Manual of Psychological Medicine, Tredgold — Principles of Dynamic Psychiatry, Masserman —Clinical Neurology, Alpers— Neurosyphilis, Merrill, Adams, and Solomon — Prescribing Occupational Therapy, Dunlon—Atlas of Surgical Approaches to Bones and Joints, Nicola — The Extremities, Quiring, Boyle, Boroush, and Lufkin— Textbook of Pediatrics, Nelson, with the collaboration of 49 contributors — Physical Chemistry of Cells and Tissues, Hoer, with the collaboration of Hitchcock, Baleman, Goddard, and Fenn —Hematology for Students and Practitioners, Fowler —The Physician's Business, Wolf    924

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE

Medical Surveys for Pulmonary Tuberculosis —Sidney A. Britten, Edwin H. Jorris, David W. Hughes, and Margaret F. Allen 936

NOTES ON NAVAL RESERVE CONTRIBUTORS 944

INDEX. Volume 46, Nos. 1 through 6 (January, February, March, April, May, and June 1946) . 949

INDEX, March 1946 Supplement to U. S. Naval Medical Bulletin 972

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