United States Navy Medical News Letter Vol. 27, No. 12, 22 June 1956
MEMORANDUM for All Officers of Medical Department of U.S. Navy by B. W. Hogan...2
Medical Appraisal of Transaortic Commissurotomy ...6
Evaluation of Methods of Treatment of Essential Hypertension ....9
Radioactive Iodine in Diagnosis of Thyroid Disease . . . 11
Primary Atypical Nonbacterial Pneumonia by LT R. L. Wolf, MC USNR, and CDR L. T. Brown, MC USN . . . 12
The Traumitic Abdomen ...... . .... .. .......14
Pregnancy and Cardiac Operations ...15
Carcinoma of the Prostate Treated with Radioactive Materials ....17
Porphyria and Chlorpromazine by Captain G. L. Calvy, MC USN .......18
The TPI Test in the Navy ..... . ..... 19
Submarine Medicine Practice ..........20
Training for Duty on Nuclear Powered Submarines.... 21
From the Note Book ....21
DENTAL SECTION
Increase in Applications for Appointment.... 24
Appointments in the Regular Navy .... 24
Letters Received in Dental Division .... 25
Status of Inactive Dental Licenses in California .... 26
Procedures for Reserve Pay Units .... 26
MEDICAL RESERVE SECTION
New Requirements for Promotion .....27
AVIATION MEDICINE SECTION
Oxygen - Both Types.. . ............ . ............... 33
New OpNav Instruction........... . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Experiments Relating Fabric Types with Severity of Burns ....37
Fatal Decompression Sickness .. . ...................38
Do the Eyes Have It? by LT J. J. Gordon, MC USN, CVG-2... 39