1STD Clinic, Hôpital Saint-Louis AP-HP and Hôpital Saint-Joseph, Paris, France; 2Department of Pediatric Dermatovenereology, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovak Republic; 3Syphilis National Reference Center, Hôpital Tarnier-Cochin, AP-HP, Paris, France; WHO Collaborating Centre for Gonorrhoea and other Sexually Transmitted Infections, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Microbiology, Örebro ...

gations: chest x-ray normal; Hb 55%; W.B.C. 7,100 with normal diffierential; iron deficiency on the blood film; E.S.R. 138 mm. in one hour; Paul-Bunnell test negative. Blood culture revealed Haemophilus influenzae type B sensitive to all the usual antibiotics except sulphonamide. This child was treated with ampicillin and made a good recovery. My point in recording this case history is to empha...

pared with 61% of vagotomy and drainage patients. In the gastrectomy group only 30% gained weight compared with 54% of the other group. In the vagotomy and drainage group the results were simili after either truncal or selective vagotomy and after either pyloroplasty or gastrojejunostomy. True dumping as distinct from small-stomach syndrome is rare in patints on a rice diet, and was seen less o...