Psychoses due to Gastro-intestinal Autointoxication

Protein-losing enteropathy due to gastro-intestinal amyloidosis.

Case report A 57-year-old male presented with a 10-day history of oedema rising to the level of the xiphisternum. Examination also revealed coarse crepitations over the left upper lung field and finger clubbing. Ten years earlier he had been treated with standard chemotherapy for pulmonary tuberculosis and subsequently developed severe bronchiectasis with persistently purulent sputum. Investiga...

Complications Due to Round Worms in Gastro-Intestinal Surgery

Gastro-intestinal Obstruction

M.D. (Pp. xii + 566; figs. 415. 144s.) London: Bailliere, Tindall & Cox, 1958. THIS work covers every conceivable aspect of obstruction in the gastro-intestinal tract from the cesophagus to the anal canal in a truly encycloprdic manner. The book contains a tremendous amount of information and approximately 1,700 references in the bibliography. It is refreshing here to note that the authors incl...

Rabbit Gastro-intestinal Disease

Gastro-intestinal suction.

During recent years the many indications from reports in the surgical literature, and the reduction of the mortality from abdominal injuries of warfare, have indicated that gastro-intestinal suction can play a major role in reducing the mortality rate in a great number of surgical conditions. It is felt that although its value is well known to the majority of surgeons, there are many problems w...