PRACTICAL TREATMENT

Practical Endocrinology: Symptoms and Treatment

Practical Points in Penicillin Treatment

This is the second edition of a pamphlet issued last year and reviewed in this journal. New matter covering a page and a half has been introduced. Two doses of 250,000 units of penicillin in water, one in the morning and one in the evening, have also been recommended, instead of the 3-hourly administration. The rest of the account appears to be the same. The two categories of diseases, one in w...

The Practical Treatment of Diabetes

modern treatment of diabetes given in this book. There are a few points in the book which perhaps require reconsideration. For instance in figure 3 (page 22) the author gives a diagram representing the effect of the different meals during the day on the blood-sugar curve of a normal healthy individual; the small but steadily-continuous rise of blood-sugar extending for a period of three hours a...

Practical Treatment of Ulcerative Colitis

INTRODUCTION Before choosing the initial therapeutic approach for the patient with ulcerative colitis (UC), three issues must be clarified: 1) demonstration that the diagnosis is ulcerative colitis and not another cause of bloody diarrhea, 2) determination of clinical and endoscopic disease severity, and 3) documentation of disease extent. An accurate diagnosis remains the foundation for a succ...

Practical Points in Penicillin Treatment

?ay u. t. tseaumont, D.m. (oxon.), F.R.C.f. (Lond.). and K. N. V. Palmer, M.B. (Cantab.). M.R.C.P. (Lond.)' J. and A. Churchill Limited, London. Pp. 16. Price, 1s. 6d. This brochure is issued for the benefit ' of doctors who have not had the opportunity of studying the administration of penicillin in hospitalAlthough not comprehensive it gives useful information. A difference of opinion may exi...