U.S. Navy Medical News Letter Vol. 41 No. 6, 15 March 1963
MEDICAL DIGESTS
Lactic Acidosis • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • • • 3
Coccidioidomycosis - A Traveling Fungus Disease •••••••••••••••• 5
Declining Severity of First Attack of Rheumatic Fever ••••••.••.••• 9
MISCELLANY
Admiral Anderson Reelected President- Navy Mutual Aid Assn •••• 11
Seabee's Newest Mission - Stat ••• 12
USS HAVEN Receiving Overhaul ••• 13
Security Training. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 14
PHS Announcement on Chickenpox•••• 15
Electric Shock Prevention •••••••• 15
In Memoriam • • • • • • • • • 16
Naval Medical Research Reports ••• 16
FROM THE NOTE BOOK
Space and Astronautics Orientation Course •••••••••.•• 19
NMRI's Dr. Benzinger Receives High Honor ••• 19
Increased Expenses of American Hospitals •••.•••••••• 20
Dr. Joseph Saunders Gets Award •• 20
BuMed Instruction 1510. 4H •••• • • 21
BuMed Instruction 6820. IE •••••• 21
Salmonellae in Easter Chicks •••• 21
DENTAL SECTION
Oral Exfoliative Cytology •••••••• 22
What Leadership Means to Me ••• 23
Personnel and Professional Notes 24
OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE
Oxides of Nitrogen ••••• • • • • • ••• • 27
Deadly Fumes ofNitrogenOxides •• 28
Fumigation, Methyl Bromide, Control Measures ••••••••••. • • 28
Design Considerations for Indoor Firing Ranges ••••. • ••••••••• • 29
Plastics May Be Hazardous •••••• 31
Hazards to Health Associated with Use of Epoxy Resins •••••• 32
RESERVE SECTION
Uniform Allowances ••• • •••• • •••• 38
CONSTELLATION Coin Serves as "Lifetime Pass" to Ship· • • • • 40