File:United States Naval Medical Bulletin Vol. 34, Nos. 1-4, 1936 (IA NavalMedicalBulletin341936).pdf

Table of Contents

 

Number 1

 

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

NOTICE TO SERVICE CONTRIBUTORS____ _____ _ _ _ __ __________ VI

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

LYMPHOGRANULOMA INGUINALE AND CLIMATIC BUBO.

By L. E. Gilje, Lieutenant, junior grade, Medical Corps, United States Navy_ _______  1

THE FREI TEST IN LYMPHOGRANULOMA INGUINALE AND OTHER TYPES OF INGUINAL ADENITIS.

By C. B. Galloway, Lieutenant, junior grade, Medical Corps, United States Navy___ _____ 12

AN EPIDEMIC OF BACILLARY DYSENTERY.

By A. A. Shadday, Lieutenant Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy_ _____ 16

A THOUSAND APPLICANTS.

By H. D. Templeton, Lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Navy__ ____________ __ __ 22

NEUROPSYCHIATRIC SERVICE, U. S. S. RELIEF. AN ANALYSIS OF ONE YEAR'S WORK.

By F. L. McDaniel, Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy__ ____________________ ____ 27

THE PROPHYLAXIS OF VENEREAL DISEASE.

By J. A. Millspaugh, Lieutenant, junior grade, Medical Corps, United States Navy_________ 32

THE INFLUENCE OF INCREASED BAROMETRIC PRESSURE ON THE PULSE RATE AND ARTERIAL BLOOD PRESSURE.

By C. W. Shilling, Lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Navy; James A. Hawkins, Sc. D., and R. A. Hansen, Lieutenant, United States Navy___ ______________ __ __ ___ ______ 39

THE HAZARD OF CAISSON DISEASE IN INDIVIDUAL SUBMARINE ESCAPE.

By C. W. Shilling, Lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Navy, and James A. Hawkins, Sc. D____ 47

A REVIEW OF THE RELATION BETWEEN SINUSITIS AND PULMONARY DISEASE.

By F. Harbert, Lieutenant, junior grade, Medical Corps, United States Navy_____________ __ 52

THE CIVILIAN DOCTOR'S PART IN A NATIONAL MILITARY EMERGENCY.

By Henry A. Monat, Lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Naval Reserve___ _ _ 64

ALLERGY, AUTOINTOXICATION AND INDICANURIA.

By J. R. Sayers, Lieutenant, junior grade, Medical Corps, United States Navy ---------- ---------------- 67

CAMPHORATED OIL IN THE TREATMENT OF MINOR WOUNDS.

By D. N. Mcinturff, Jr., Lieutenant, junior grade, Medical Corps, United States Navy  ___________ 70

CLINICAL NOTES:

A CASE OF PERIPHERAL NEURITIS FOLLOWING ARSENICAL POISONING WITH SEVERE EXFOLIATIVE DERMATITIS.

By Walter G. Kilbury, Lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Navy___ _____ _____ ___ 73

MOLLUSCUM CONTAGIOSUM, REPORT OF CASE.

By Bruce V. Leamer, Lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Navy_ ______________________ 76

CAVERNOUS SINUS THROMBOSIS, REPORT OF A CASE.

By R. W. Taylor, Lieutenant, junior grade, Dental Corps, United States Navy__ ___ _____ ___ 78

NA VAL RESERVE __ __ __ 81

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

The Fourth Surgeon General of the Navy-The Mission of the Medical Corps of the Navy-The New Revision of the Supply Table-Cough Mixtures-New Viewpoints in Surgery-Fellowship in the American College of Surgeons and American College of Physicians-History of Syphilis-The Common Cold-Forty-

Third Annual Meeting of the Association of Military Surgeons____ 83

BOOK NOTICES:

Practice of Medicine, Osler-Histology, Maximow and Bloom – Nervous System, White-Diagnostics in Internal Medicine, Loewenberg-Microbiology and Elementary Pathology, Sinclair- Laboratory Methods, Dimmitt--Sterilization, Underwood-Medical Dictionary, Dorland-Anatomy and Physiology, Williams – Dental Radiology, Holliday-Heart Disease, Levin-Skin Diseases, Swartz and Reilly-Surgical Diseases of the Chest, Graham, Singer and Ballon-Regional Anatomy, Johnston-Diseases of the Nervous System, Jelleffe and White-Diseases of the Thyroid, Hertzler-Laboratory Diagnosis, Osgood-Preventive Medicine, Rosenau-Arthritis, Pemberton-Dental Anaesthesia, Mead-Orthodontics, McCoy-Clinical Neurology, Wechsler- Bacteriology, Jordan-Clinical Diagnosis by Laboratory Methods, Todd-Atlas of Blood Diseases, Piney and Wyard- Fractures and Dislocations, Speed-Disorders of the Blood, Whitby and Britton- Aphasia, Weisenburg and McBride-Anatomy of Nervous System, Ranson-Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, de Rivas-Collected Papers of the Mayo Clinic-Food and Beverage Analyses, Bridges_ 89

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE:

TOXIC EFFECTS OF ARSENICAL COMPOUNDS EMPLOYED IN THE TREATMENT OF DISEASES IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY, 1934.

By S. S. Cook, Commander, Medical Corps, and H. D. Campbell, Chief Pharmacist's Mate, United States Navy______________ 97

HEALTH OF THE NAVY-STATISTICS________ __ _____ ______ ___ 143

 

Number 2

 

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

NOTICE TO SERVICE CONTRIBUTORS ________ ______________vi

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

DRUNKENNESS: NAVAL MEDICO-LEGAL ASPECTS OF THIS DIAGNOSIS.

By W.W. Hall, Lieutenant Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy  - ----------------------149

DENTINE DESENSITIZATION.

By Leroy L. Hartman, D. D. S., Lieutenant Commander, Dental Corps, United States Naval Reserve ___163

TREATMENT OF ACUTE MECHANICAL INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION.

By M. D. Willcutts, Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy---------------------------------163

FRACTURE OF THE CARPAL SCAPHOID.

By F. R. Hook, Commander, and J. D. Boone, Lieutenant, junior grade, Medical Corps, United States Navy __________ 172

A STUDY OF THE DIET IN RELATION TO CARIES ACTIVITY IN 212 ENLISTED MEN AT THE PEARL HARBOR SUBMARINE BASE, HAWAII.

By Martha R. Jones, Ph.D., and George N. Crosland, Lieutenant, junior grade, Dental Corps, United States Navy _________ 181

THE DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE.

By Ellis A. Stephens, Lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Navy, retired ________ 199

TRANSPORTATION OF INSANE PATIENTS FROM MARE ISLAND, CALIF., TO WASHINGTON, D. C.

By Alma C. Smith, Commander, and Allan S. Chrisman, Lieutenant, junior grade, Medical Corps, United States Navy ___204

BLOOD TRANSFUSION: A MODIFICATION OF EXISTING DEVICES.

By James E. Reeves, Lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Navy ……………… 210

STUDIES OF ACTIVE PNEUMOCOCCUS IMMUNITY: THE DURATION OF TYPE I AND TYPE II PNEUMOCOCCUS IMMUNITY.

By David Ferguson, Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy __________213

BREATHING RESISTANCE OF NEW SUBMARINE ESCAPE APPARATUS COMPARED WITH THAT OF PREVIOUS MODELS.

By R. A. Hansen, Lieutenant, United States Navy, and A. R. Behnke, Lieutenant, and C. W. Shilling, Lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Navy _____________________________220

SOME ASPECTS OF THE TREATMENT OF NEUROSYPHILIS IN THE NAVY.

By Lester E. McDonald, Lieutenant, junior grade, Medical Corps, United States Navy ___  224

GONORRHEAL INFECTIONS IN SAMOA.

By Ben Hollander, Lieutenant Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy ……235

CLINICAL NOTES:

CONGENITAL DISLOCATION OF THE HIP: A CASE REPORT.

By R. D. Joldersma, Lieutenant Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy ________243

RHINOSPORIDIUM SEEBERI.

By O. R. Nees, Lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Navy_ 243

PULMONARY ASPERGILLOSIS.

By Jesse G. Wright, Lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Navy---------------------------------------246

HEMOTHORAX.

By Warren E. Klein, Lieutenant, junior grade, Medical Corps, United States Navy _______ 249

NAVAL RESERVE -------------------- 255

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

The Ninth Surgeon General, United States Navy-Articles of Special Merit in the BULLETIN during 1935-The Prevention of Dental Caries-The XI U.S. Pharmacopoeia-The Welcome Prize Essay for 1936-The Spinal Fluid in Syphillis-Scientific and Medical Meetings-American Board of Ophthalmology Examinations … 257

ADVANCES IN MEDICINE AND THE MEDICAL SCIENCES IN 1936 ________ 263

BOOK NOTICES:

Urology, Hinman-Stomach and Duodenum, Eusterman and Balfour- Hospital Organization and Management, MacEachern – Modern Office and General Practice, Brengle--Pathology, Boyd - Bacteriology, Rice--Geography of Disease, McKinley-Treatment, Clendening-Dietetics, Pattee--Diseases of the Skin, Knowles-Heart Disease, Pardee--Physiology, Zoethout-Personal and Community Health, Turner-Introduction to Human Anatomy, Marshall-Bacteriology, Eisenberg and Huntly-Dermatology

for Nurses, Stokes-Bacteriology of Typhoid, Havens- Patient and the Weather, Petersen ___________________________ 267

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE:

MEASLES, MUMPS, SCARLET FEVER, DIPHTHERIA, AND CEREBROSPINAL FEVER IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY, 1900-1934.

By S. S. Cook, Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy-------------------- - -------- -------273

HEALTH OF THE NAVY-STATISTICS _________________________ 280

 

Number 3

 

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

NOTICE TO SERVICE CONTRIBUTORS________________________ vi

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

REVIEW OF THE PATHOLOGY OBSERVED IN 1,018 POST-MORTEM EXAMINATIONS

IN HAITI.

By J. H. Chambers, Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy---------

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THE ETIOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT OF NEPHROLITHIASIS.

By A. J. Desautels, Lieutenant Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy______ 296

PAROXYSMAL HEMOGLOBINURIA.

By J. G. Dickson, Lieutenant Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy __ 300

T HE CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS.

By R. A. Bell, Lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Navy_ 306

SURFACE DECOMPRESSION OF DIVERS.

By J. A. Hawkins, D. Sc., and C. W. Shilling, Lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Navy ______ 311

DUODENAL ULCER.

By James F. Finnegan, Lieutenant Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy ___ __ 317

ERRORS IN SIX CONSECUTIVE CASES OF "APPENDICITIS".

By W. H. Michael, Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy ------------------------------- 329

INFLUENZA LYMPHATICA.

By Roger A. Nolan, Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy --------------------------

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ACROMIOCLAVICULAR DISLOCATION.

By R. A. Benson, Lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Navy --- - -

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ENDOMETRIOSIS.

By Albert T. Walker, Lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Navy ------------------------- 342

TREATMENT OF LUNG ABSCESS.

By Howard L. Puckett, Lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Navy  - -- -- -- -- - ----- - ----- 347

THE RELATIVE PROTECTIVE VALUE OF VARIOUS PROPHYLACTIC DRUGS AND METHODS FOR THE CONTROL OF VENEREAL DISEASE.

By R. C. Boyden, Lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Navy - -

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A METHOD USED IN THE TREATMENT OF THIRTY-THREE CASES OF ACUTE GONOCOCCUS URETHRITIS WITHOUT SICK DAYS.

By R. A. Vilar, Lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Navy_ 359

POLYMASTIA, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO SUPERNUMERARY AXILLARY BREASTS: BRIEF REVIEW WITH CASE REPORT.

By C. F. Storey, Lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Navy_ 362

SHORT-WAVE RADIOTHERAPY IN VINCENT's INFECTION.

By C. E. Allen, Lieutenant, Dental Corps, United States Navy__ 376

CLINICAL NOTES:

A CASE OF PERIPHERAL NEURITIS DUE TO LEAD.

By W. H. Funk, Lieutenant Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy ____ ___ ___ ___ __381

UNILATERAL ACQUIRED SYPHILITIC INTERSTITIAL KERATITIS. REPORT OF A CASE.

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

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SUGGESTED DEVICES:  THE ZIPPER STRETCHER SUIT.

By Henry C. Weber, Lieutenant Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy ___________ 387

NAVAL RESERVE ___ ___ ______________ _______ __ _____ _____ ______ _ 391

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

The Sixth Surgeon General of the Navy- Need for Flight Surgeons – Limitations of Diathermy- Heat Exhaustion and Sodium Chloride - Specialist Needs of the Navy at Present--Paths to Medical Specialism- The Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Malignant Disease in the Navy-Microtome Knives ______ _393

BOOK NOTICES:

Index of Diagnosis, French-Discovery of the Elements, Weeks – Textbooks of Surgery, Christopher--Laboratory Methods, Simmons- Pharmacognosy, Trease-Diseases of the Mouth, Hayes – Lobar Pneumonia, Lord and Heffron- Endocrinology, Goldzieher- Pulmonary Tuberculosis, Hawes and Stone-the Parathyroids, Shelling- Immunology, Sherwood-Gallbladder Disease, Rehfuss and Nelson- Contagious Diseases, Stimson-Abortion, Taussig-Dental Roentgenology, Ennis- Medical Papers, Christian Memorial Volum-Psychiatric Nursing, Carmichael and Chapman-Jefferson, Waterhouse, and Vaccination, Halsey – Dental Infection and Systemic Disease, Haden-Laboratory Methods, Bray- Achievement Scales, Cozens-Urological Nursing, Davis·- -- - - - - - -- - - --- ---- ---------- ---- -- - -- --- --- -- -------  399

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE:

DEATHS FOLLOWING THE ADMINISTRATION OF ARSENICALS IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY, 1919-1935.

By S.S. Cook, Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy…….. 407

HEALTH OF THE NAVY-STATISTICS _ __ ______ _____ _________ _ 422

 

Number 4

 

PREFACE ___ V

NOTICE TO SERVICE CONTRIBUTORS________________________ VI

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

THE POST-TRAUMATIC ABDOMEN: DIAPHRAGMATIC HERNIA AS A SEQUEL OF WAR INJURIES.

By Lucius W. Johnson, Captain, Medical Corps, United States Navy---------------------------------- 431

VENTRAL HERNIA AS A SEQUEL OF THE TRAUMATIC ABDOMEN.

By Frederick R. Hook, Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy__________________ 440

REPAIR OF INGUINAL HERNIA.

By G. G. Herman, Lieutenant Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy------------------------- 452

THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE U.S. S. RANGER.

By George C. Rhoades, Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy____________  456

NARCOLEPSY: WITH REPORT OF THREE CASES.

By H. O. Cozby, Lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Navy --- -

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OBSERVATIONS ON CHROMATOID BODIES IN THE CYSTS OF ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA.

By E. G. Hakansson, Lieutenant Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy _____________ 478

TERATOMAS OF THE TESTICLE.

By M. J. Aston, Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy ---------------------------- 492

VINETHENE ANESTHESIA.

By J. Connolly, Lieutenant, Dental Corps, and R. E. Baker, Lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Navy__________ __ 499

PELVIC SURGERY AND GYNECOLOGY.

By J. L. Schwartz, Lieutenant Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy- --------------------- 507

ANOMALIES OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE LUMBAR SPINE.

By I. E. Stowe, Lieutenant Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy____ _____________ 514

PHRENIC EXERESIS.

By H. V. Hughens, Lieutenant Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy _________________ 519

THE NODAL TRIANGLE.

By R. A. Nolan, Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy-------------------------------------- 523

PHENYL MERCURIC NITRATE IN THE TREATMENT OF OTITIS EXTERNA AND OF THE DERMATOPHYTOSES.

By Frederick C. Greaves, Lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Navy ________ 527

DANGERS OF PROSTHESIS FOR AVIATION PERSONNEL.

By J. L. Brown, Commander, Dental Corps, United States Navy_  532

EAR SYMPTOMS INCIDENTAL TO SUDDEN ALTITUDE CHANGES AND THE FACTOR OF OVERCLOSURE OF THE MANDIBLE: PRELIMINARY REPORT.

By Glenn E. Willhelmy, Lieutenant, junior grade, Dental Corps, United States Naval Reserve _________533

CLINICAL NOTES:

MEDIAN LOBE PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA WITH PROSTATIC CALCULI.

By John F. Luten, Lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Navy --------------------

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MENINGOCOCCUS MENINGITIS: A CASE REPORT.

By C. J. Holeman, Captain, Medical Corps, and J. W. Kimbrough, Lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Navy ____ 545

 TWO CASE REPORTS OF INTESTINAL FISTULAE.

By Frederick G. Fox, Lieutenant Commander, Medical Corps, United States Naval Reserve _____ 547

NEW DEVICES:

A NEW TYPE SLING FOR A THOMAS SPLINT.

By H. M. Weber, Lieutenant Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy _____ 551

NAVAL RESERVE_ ---------- ---- ------- --- --- ---- ---- ------- 553

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

The Eleventh Chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery-American College of Physicians and American College of Surgeons – The Treatment of Scabies-Loan of Konimeter-Lymphogranuloma Inguinale - Avviation Medicine-Annual Meeting of the Association of Military Surgeons-American Board of Otolaryngology- First International Conference on Fever Therapy ____ 555

BOOK NOTICES:

Syphilis Sive Morbus Humanus, Butler-Medical Mycology, Dodge – Parenteral Therapy, Dutton-Alergy of the Nose and Paranasal Sinuses, Hansel- Pediatric Nursing, Zahorsky-Roentgenographic Technique, Rhinehart-Dental Formulary, Prinz-Examination of the Patient and Symptomatic Diagnosis, Murray ____________ 565

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE:

TOXIC EFFECTS OF ARSENICAL COMPOUNDS AS ADMINISTERED IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY IN 1935, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ARSENICAL DERMATITIS.

By S. S. Cook, Commander, Medical Corps, and E. H. Wingo, Chief Pharmacist's Mate, United States Navy _____________ 569

ABSTRACT FROM THE ANNUAL SANITARY REPORT OF THE U. S. S. TENNESSEE FOR THE YEAR 1935- -595

REPORT OF AN OUTBREAK OF SCARLET FEVER ON BOARD THE U. S. S. PENNSYLVANIA---------- - - ---597

OUTBREAK OF FOOD POISONING CAUSED BY CREAM PUFFS------- 598

EPIDEMIC OF AMEBIC DYSENTERY-THE CHICAGO OUTBREAK OF 1933 __________ 602

HEALTH OF THE NAVY-STATISTICS __ _____________________ 607

Subjects: USS Relief; hospital ship; psychiatry; submarine medicine; alcoholism; dentistry; diet; nutrition; Dental Corps; Hospital Corps; venereal disease; sexually transmitted disease; American Samoa; syphilis; gonorrhea; USS Ranger; anesthesia; narcolepsy; USS Tennessee