Table of Contents

 Number 1

 Preface v

Notice to Service Contributors vi

Special Articles:

Advances in Clinical Chemistry.

By Commander W. W. Hall, Medical Corps, United States Navy, and Chief Pharmacist P. S. Gault, United States Navy 1

Current Problems in Diabetes Mellitus.

By Elliott P. Joslin, M. D., Howard F. Root, M. D. Priscilla White, M. D., and Alexander Marble, M. D 27

Gastro-Enteroloqy. A Review of Peptic Ulcer, Diets and Constipation.

By Lieutenant Henry A. Monat, Medical Corps, United States Navy Reserve 40

Newer Aspects of Abdominal Roentgenology.

By Commander Charles F. Behrens, Medical Corps, United States Navy 47

Meningococcus Antitoxin in Cerebrospinal Fever. With a Review of the Literature and Case Reports.

By Lieutenant Frederick R. Lang, Medical Corps, United States Navy 52

Immune Globulin Extract for Measles.

By Lieutenant (jr. gr.) L. G. Llewelyn, Medical Corps, United States Navy 72

Lobar Pneumonia, Recent Advances in Therapy.

By Commander Kenneth E. Lowman, Medical Corps, United States Navy 74

Recent Progress in Tropical Medicine.

By Elliston Farrell, M. D. 80

Dental Caries. Prevalence Experience at Initial Examination and the Incidence of New Carious Lesions After a One- Year Interval in 1047 Officers and Enlisted Men of the United States Navy.

By Lieutenant (jr. gr.) Carl August Schlack, Dental Corps, United States Navy 90

Surgical High-Lights of 1939.

By Captain L. W. Johnson, Medical Corps, United States Navy.. 95

Book Notices:

Treatment in General Medicine, Reimann — Hypertension and Nephritis, Fishberg— Internal Medicine, Musser — The Endocrine Glands, Goldzieher — Diseases of the Nose and Throat, Imperatori — Roentgen Technique; McNeill —Discovery of the Elements, Weeks — Sclerosing Therapy, Yeomans — Functional Disorders of the Foot, Dickson — Practical Dermatology and Syphilis, Robinson — Diseases of the Skin, Sutton — Complete Denture Prosthesis, Schlosser — Partial Dentures, Neurohr 118

Preventive Medicine:

Toxic Effects of Arsenical Compounds. As Employed in the Treatment of Diseases in the United States Navy, 1938.

By Commander C. S. Stephenson, Medical Corps, United States Navy, and Chief Pharmacist's Mate W. M. Chambers, United States Navy 126

The Hookworm Problem. Some General and Military Aspects. A Report of the Examination of 1169 Naval Recruits.

By Lieutenant James J. Sapero, Medical Corps, United States Navy 136

Food Poisoning. — U. S. S. Richmond. --143

Statistics:

Health of the Navy . 146

Morbidity 148

Deaths - 148

Mental and Physical Qualifications of Recruits 149

 

Number 2

 

Preface v

Notice to Service Contributors vi

Special Articles:

They Told Me About Their Hospitals.

By Captain Lucius W. Johnson, Medical Corps, United States Navy 151

Treatment of Luetics, In the Destroyers of the Battle Force.

By Captain William E. Eaton, Medical Corps, United States Navy 164

Some Trends in Syphilis.

By Commander R. P. Parsons, Medical Corps, United States Navy 168

A Footnote on Yaws and Syphilis.

By Ellis Herndon Hudson, M. D., D. T. M. & H. (Eng.) 172

Syphilis of the Skull, Among Aleuts, and the Asian and North American Eskimo About Bering and Arctic Seas.

By Captain Richmond C. Holcomb, Medical Corps, United States Navy 177

Pathology of Schizophrenia.

By Lieutenant Commander E. F. Lowry, Medical Corps, United States Navy 193

Metrazol Therapy in Schizophrenia.

By Lieutenant Roger G. Osterheld, Medical Corps, United States Naval Reserve 201

Some Pollens of Hawaii, Botanical Characteristics in Relation to Allergy.

By Commander Louis H. Roddis, Medical Corps, United States Navy 206

Endemic Typhus of the Southeastern States.

By Lieutenant Earl F. Evans, Medical Corps, United States Navy 210

The Treatment of Chemical Warfare Casualties.

By Commander B. H. Adams, Medical Corps, United States Navy 218

A New Method for Determining Night Blindness, A Preliminary Report.

By Lieutenant (jr. gr.) Earle E. Metcalfe, Medical Corps, United States Navy 231

Atebrine in the Eradication of Giardia Lamblia.

By Lieutenant Commander Julian Love, Medical Corps, United States Navy, and Lieutenant Commander Gordon B. Tayloe, Medical Corps, United States Navy... 239

Dental Abnormalities in Recruits.

By Commander Walter Rehrauer, Dental Corps, United States Navy, and Lieutenant (jr. gr.) Karl Van Lear Berglund, Dental Corps, United States Navy 242

Elimination of Oral Sepsis.

By Lieutenant C. W. Schantz, Dental Corps, United States Navy. 246

Local Anesthesia, Its Application in Operative Dentistry.

By Lieutenant Glenn W. Berry, Dental Corps, United States Navy 249

Visual Deficiency, Incidence at the United States Naval Academy and Measures Taken for Its Reduction.

By Captain Reynolds Hayden, Medical Corps, United States Navy, and Commander Orville R. Goss, Medical Corps, United States Navy 252

Notes and Comments:

Articles of Special Merit, 1939 — The Navy's Contributions to Medicine—The Public Interest in Health—New Members, American College of Surgeons  277

Pharmacist's Mates Awarded Navy Cross 278

Book Notices:

Endocrinology in Modern Practice, Wolf—The Physiological Basis of Medical Practice, Best and Taylor —Physiology in Health and Disease, Wiggers —Physiology of Exercise, McCurdy and Larson — Physical Diagnosis, Cabot and Adams — Martini's Principles and Practice of Physical Diagnosis, Farber —Clinical Diagnosis by Laboratory Methods, Todd and Sanford —Synopsis of Clinical Laboratory Methods, Bray— Experimental Pharmacology and Materia Medica, Jackson—Clinical Pathology and Treatment of the Dental Pulp and Periodontal Tissues, Coolidge — Dental Roentgenology, Ennis— A Textbook of Practical Nursing, Brownell — Communicable Diseases for Nurses, Bower and Pilant— A Mirror for Surgeons, Power —The Surgery of Injury and Plastic Repair, Fomon —Nitrous Oxide-Oxygen Anesthesia, Clement — Surgery of the Eye, Wiener and Alvis—Diseases of the Ear, Nose, and Throat, Lederer —The Etiology of Trachoma, Julianette 279

Preventive Medicine:

Frozen Bread.

By Lieutenant Martin V. Brown, Medical Corps, United States Navy 290

Statistics:

Morbidity 294

Deaths 294

Mental and Physical Qualifications of Recruits 295

 

Number 3

 

Preface v

Notice to Service Contributors vi

Special Articles:

Roentgen Photography, An Economical Method for Group Survey.

By Captain W. Chambers, Medical Corps, United States Navy, and Commander C. F. Behrens, Medical Corps, United States Navy 297

Recruit Examination, The Need for Chest X-rays.

By Commander E. G. Brian, Medical Corps, United States Navy, and Lieutenant E. Ricen, Medical Corps, United States Navy   299

Recruit Selection.

By Lieutenant Robert A. Bell, Medical Corps, United States Navy 301

Spontaneous Pneumothorax in the Apparently Healthy.

By Captain Paul Richmond, Medical Corps, United States Navy 306

Lung Cysts.

By Lieutenant Commander Frederick C. Greaves, Medical Corps, United States Navy 308

Hematuria, Associated with Acute Upper Respiratory Infection.

By Commander William H. Funk, Medical Corps, United States Navy 311

Actinomycosis of Lungs and Liver, Report of Case.

By Commander R. W. Hutchinson, Medical Corps, United States Navy, and Lieutenant J. L. Zundell, Medical Corps, United States Navy . 325

Carcinoma of the Lung, A Clinical Study.

By Lieutenant (jr. gr.) Justin J. Stein, Medical Corps, United States Naval Reserve 329

Tumors of the Vermiform Appendix.

By Lieutenant Clifford F. Storey, Medical Corps, United States Navy 334

Brain Abscess, Clinical Observations on Twenty Proven Cases.

By Lieutenant Commander Gerald W. Smith, Medical Corps, United States Navy 358

Ophthalmological Facts, Fads, and Fallacies.

By Lieutenant R. C. Boyden, Medical Corps, United States Navy. 366

Eye Strain.

By Commander E. C. Ebert, Medical Corps, United States Navy. 373

Treatment of Concomitant Strabismus.

By O. W. Cole, M. D... 375 Malignant Melanoma of the Orbit, With Case Report.

By Lieutenant Commander Fred Harbert, Medical Corps, United States Navy 378

Chronic Thyrotoxic Myopathy, Report of a Case Complicated with Diabetes Mellitus.

By Lieutenant (jr. gr.) Michael V. MacKenzie, Medical Corps, United States Navy 381

Myasthenia Gravis, With Case Report.

By Commander R. L. Nattkemper, Medical Corps, United States Navy 387

Borderline Adrenal Cortex Insufficiency, With Case Report.

By Commander Walter J. Pennell, Medical Corps, United States Navy, and Lieutenant (jr. gr.) Lynn S. Beals, Jr., Medical Corps, United States Navy 391

Lupus Erythematosus, With Case Report.

By Lieutenant Curtis William Schantz, Dental Corps, United States Navy - 395

Paget's Disease, With Special Reference to Oral Manifestations.

By Lieutenant (jr. gr.) Herman K. Rendtorff, Dental Corps, United States Navy 398

Notes and Comments:

Chemotherapy in Gonorrhea —-Internships and Postgraduate Instruction —American College of Physicians- — Graduate Fortnight — Addendum 403

Book Notices :

Treatment in General Practice, Beckman —Practice of Medicine, Meakins — Symptoms of Visceral Disease, Pottenger — Practice of Allergy, Vaughan —A History of Tropical Medicine, Scott — Heart

Patients, Their Study and Care, Smith — The Electrocardiogram in Congenital Cardiac Disease, Schnitker — The Electrocardiogram and X-ray Configuration of the Heart, Master —Human Helminthology, Faust —The Dysenteric Disorders, Manson-Bahr—Principles of Psychiatric Nursing, Ingram —A Textbook of Laboratory Diagnosis, Osgood — Gross Anatomy, Howell—An Introduction to Human Anatomy, Marshall—A Textbook of Anatomy and Physiology, Williams—The Anatomy of the Nervous System, Ran son —A Textbook of Bacteriology, Zinsser—Fundamentals of Pharmacy, Blome — Dental Caries, compiled by Advisory Committee on Research in Dental Caries, Daniel F. Lynch, chairman —Clinical

Dental Roentgenology, McCall —Handbook of Skin Diseases, Warren —Manual of Dermatology, Wright —Tumors of the Skin, Eller—Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases of the Hair, McCarthy—Unto the Fourth Generation, Simons — Modern Urology for Nurses, Dwyer and Fish —Blood Groups and Blood Transfusion, Wiener — Fractures, Magnuson —Handbook of Orthopoedic Surgery, Shands —Tumors of the Hands and Feet, Pack 409

Preventive Medicine:

Industrial Injuries in the United States During 1938 -125

Reduction in Personnel Injuries, Report from the U. S. S. Tennessee for 1939 430

Stool Survey, U. S. S. Pennsylvania 433

Food Infection, U. S. S. Memphis .. 434

Statistics:

Health of the Navy 435

Mental and Physical Qualifications of Recruits 443

Deaths 445

 

Number 4

 

Preface v

Notice to Service Contributors vi

Special Articles:

The Diagnosis and Treatment of Head Injuries.

By Lieutenant Commander Gerald W. Smith, Medical Corps, United States Navy 447

Extradural Hemorrhage, With Case Report.

By Lieutenant Commander Robert E. Baker, Medical Corps, United States Navy 472

Pachymeningitis Hemorrhagica Interna, With Case Reports.

By Lieutenant Earl F. Evans, Medical Corps, United States Navy 476

Spontaneous Subarachnoid Hemorrhage, With Case Report.

By Commander H. D. Hubbard, Medical Corps, United States Navy 480

A Head Injury Survey, Etiology and Prevention.

By Lieutenant Commander Hans v. Briesen, Medical Corps, United States Naval Reserve 483

Compound Fractures of the Extremities, Results of Treatment.

By Robert V. Funsten, M. D., University of Virginia, and Lieutenant (jr. gr.) Charles J. Frankel, Medical Corps, United States Naval Reserve 494

Sprained Ankles, Treatment by Novocaine and Adrenalin Injections.

By Lieutenant Commander C. R. Ball, Medical Corps, United States Navy 499

Intravenous Anesthesia.

By Lieutenant Commander J. R. Fulton, Medical Corps, United States Navy 502

Suction-Siphonage Machine.

By Commander M. D. Willcutts, Medical Corps, United States

Navy, and Lieutenant Commander E. P. Kunkel, Medical Corps, United States Navy 509

Cotton Sutures, Use in General Surgery.

By Commander J. B. Logue, Medical Corps, United States Navy, and Lieutenant Commander W. E. Walsh, Medical Corps, United States Navy 511

Surgical Sterilization.

By Weeden B. Underwood, Research Engineer, American Sterilizer Company -. 514

Carrell-Dakin Solution, Method of Preparation from a Convenient Source.

By Chief Pharmacist P. S. Gault, United States Navy, and Pharmacist's Mate, Second Class, E. E. Ozburn, United States Navy 528

Postoperative Atelectasis.

By Lieutenant Commander C. G. Clegg, Medical Corps, United States Navy 531

Insulin Treatment of Burns.

By Lieutenant Stephen E. Flynn, Medical Corps, United States Navy . 538

Bronchogenic Carcinoma, A Review of Thirty Verified Cases.

By Commander P. P. Maher, Medical Corps, United States Navy, and Lieutenant A. H. Staderman, Medical Corps, United States Navy 541

Surgical Treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis, The Feasibility of Bilateral Phrenic Paralysis Combined With Pneumoperitoneum.

By Commander E. G. Brian, Medical Corps, United States Navy, and Lieutenant E. Rieen, Medical Corps, United States Navy. 553

Treatment of Gonococcal Infection With Sulfapyridine, Seventy Ambulatory Cases Treated Aboard Ship.

By Commander P. M. Albright, Medical Corps, United States Navy, and Lieutenant (jr. gr.) E. E. Metcalfe, Medical Corps, United States Navy 563

Book Notices:

Artificial Pneumothorax, contributions by Saranac Lake Physicians to the Studies of the Trudeau Foundation — Treatment of War Wounds and Fractures, Trueta— Diagnosis and Management of Diseases of the Biliary Tract, Carter and Twiss— Diseases of the Gallbladder and Bile Ducts, Walters and Snell — Injection Treatment, Riddle— Gynecology, Medical and Surgical, Bland — Practical Obstetrics —

Bland and Montgomery —A Manual of Otology, Rhinology, and Laryngology, Ballenger — Diseases of the Foot, Hauser — Proctology for the General Practitioner, Smith — Shock, Scudder — Synopsis of

Principles of Surgery, Berman —Improvised Equipment in the Home Care of the Sick, Olson — Collected Papers of the Mayo Clinic and The Mayo Foundation — Roentgen Diagnosis of the Extremities and

Spine, Ferguson — Outline of Roentgen Diagnosis, Rigler— Textbook of Nervous Diseases, Bing and Haymaker —Regional Diagnosis in Lesions of the Brain and Spinal Cord, Bing and Haymaker —Textbook of Neuro- Anatomy and the Sense Organs, Larsell — Textbook of Clinical Neurology, Wechsler  —Headache and Head Pains, Dutton— Diabetes, Bortz —Arthritis and Allied Conditions, Comroe —The

Pathology of Internal Diseases, Boyd —Elmer and Rose Physical Diagnosis, Walker — Principles of Haematology, Haden — Quantity Food Service Recipes, compiled by the Administration Section of the American Dietetic Association — Legal Medicine and Toxicology, Gonzales, Vance and Helpern —Clinical Toxicology, Thienes — Marihuana, Walton 573

Preventive Medicine:

Toxic Effects of Arsenical Compounds 587

Statistics:

Health of the Navy 598

Morbidity 604

Mental and Physical Qualifications of Recruits 605

Deaths 606

Index 608

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