In advanced peripheral lymphedema particularly involving the legs, complex physical therapy (massage/bandage-wrapping compression, remedial exercises, and maintenance use of a low stretch elastic compression garment), is not uniformly successful. In six patients with morbid lymphedema of the legs, we described our positive experience using a modified Auchincloss/Homans excisional operation.

ory construction, George Homans pointed out that the theory is not a theory at all. Laughlin and Brady, like Parsons before them, have written what Homans calls an "orienting statement," which identifies an area of concern without making it possible to quantify variables, apply the framework precisely to particular situations, or infer anything from the theory. As even one of the contributors p...

5Improving Hemophilia Care Using the Electronic Health Record: A Single Institution Experience Beth Mazzone, RN Fleming L, Flowers D, Libby K, Parenteau E, Zakai N, Sprague JR, Cushman M, Homans A, Holmes CE Fletcher Allen Health Care 6Enhancing Nurses’ Knowledge and Confidence in the Management and Care for Patients Requiring High-Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation (HFOV) in an Adult Intensiv...

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This textbook, which owes its inspiration to Dr. Harvey Cushing, is placed before the medical world to record and amplify the teaching of the members of the surgical staff of the Harvard Medical School. The work of compilation has fallen to the lot of Dr. John Homans and ably has he fulfilled his task. In the preface he informs us that some of the teachers sent him what might be described as mo...