Warfare Injuries and Neuroses

Abdominal Injuries of Warfare

CLINICAL PRESENTATION OF CHEMICAL WARFARE INJURIES IN CHILDREN AND TEENAGERS

Clinical manifestations of sixteen children and teenagers exposed to chemical warfare in Halabje are presented. 15 patients complained of burning of skin. Dry coughing was present in 13 subjects. The most frequent signs were conjunctivitis, skin erythema, edema of the eyelids, hyperpigmentation, ulceration, erosion, dyspnea, closure ofthe eyes, blisters, edema of the skin, and crepitation ...

Conventional Warfare: Ballistic, Blast, and Burn Injuries

verting colostomies are not required either to achieve wound closure or to prevent wound infection. Diversion of the fecal stream usually results in significant anal stenosis, which then requires surgical correction. Skin Grafts. After a burn wound has been excised, optimal closure is accomplished by of cutaneous autografts. However, this is possible only when (a) the wound bed is unequivocally...

Sex Neuroses

The Neuroses and their Treatment

Chapter 1 is devoted to the Bacitracins, a remarkable group of polypeptides containing the thiazoline nucleus. With the exception of Lyman C. Craig of the Rockefeller Institute, no one has done as much as Abraham to advance our knowledge of the nature of these substances, the structure of which is now, except for a few details, completely established. In Chapter 2 the author discusses the chemi...