SPLENECTOMY FOR REPEATED GASTRO-INTESTINAL HEMORRHAGES

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...

Gastro-Intestinal Syphilis.

Strategies for vaccination against gastro-intestinal nematodes.

A great diversity of gastro-intestinal nematodes parasitise man and his animals. Each nematode is antigenically highly complex with distinct developmental stages. The parasites occupy a range of niches in the host gut and have a variety of feeding habits. Hosts have evolved only partially successful local immune responses. The host and parasite factors modulating these responses are described. ...