HYPOPHYSEAL DISORDERS AND FROEHLICHʼS SYNDROME (DYSTROPHIA ADIPOSO-GENITALIS)

A Case of Dystrophia Adiposo-Genitalis

Herpes genitalis and circumcision.

214 patients with genital herpes infection proven by culture and a control group of 410 other patients were included in a retrospective study devised to investigate the relationship of circumcision to genital HSV infection in the male. The percentage of patients circumicised in the control group was significantly larger than in the herpes group (P less than 0-01). The was not found to be the ca...

Herpes Genitalis: Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention.

Herpes genitalis is caused by the herpes simplex virus type 1 or type 2 and can manifest as primary or recurrent infection. It is one of the most common sexually transmitted infections and due to associated physical and psychological morbidity it constitutes a considerable, often underestimated medical problem. In addition to providing the reader with basic knowledge of the pathogen and clinica...

History of herpes genitalis.

Mettler (1947) suggested that the first description of herpes febrilis was given by the Roman physician Herodotus, who lived in A.D. 100 in the reign of Trajan. Herodotus described "the herpetic eruptions which appeared about the mouth at the crisis of simple fevers, and the weals of febrile urticaria". AMtius of Amanda (1949a, b), Royal physician and Lord High Chamberlain at the Court of Byzan...

Respiration in Dystrophia Myotonica.

The interesting paper by Dr J E Clague et al (March 1994;49:240-4) contains some results and conclusions which are at variance with earlier studies. Firstly, their results showed that the vent-ilatory response to carbon dioxide in these patients was lower than in the controls, but the difference was not significant. Several earlier studies showed clear evidence of a reduction in the slope of th...