.G. W., colored, aged sixty-four, was admitted to the hospital Dee. 21, 1930, complaining of indeflnite abdominal pains and vaginal bleeding. The family and past history was irrelevant. The patient began to menstruate a t twelve years, and up to the present illness had always been normal as to cycle and duration. She was married at the age of forty, and her husband had died ten years later. The...

The precise mode of therapeutic action of sulfanilamide on streptococcus can be arrived at only by considering the sum total of factors that inhibit or favor the natural growth of the microorganism under the experimental conditions that obtain, whether in vivo or in vitro. Too sweeping conclusions have hitherto been drawn from the study of a single variable factor, such as an unfavorable temper...

Cats injected into the parotid gland and testicle with a bacterial sterile filtrate of the salivary secretion of children in the active stage of parotitis or mumps can be made to develop a pathological condition having several points of resemblance to the condition present in mumps in human beings. After an incubation stage of from five to eight days definite changes have been noted in the temp...

Colonoscopy performed by an experienced endoscopist is a remarkably safe procedure. The incidence of perforation of the colon as a result of colonoscopy has been estimated to be between 0.1-0.8% for diagnostic examinations and 0.5-3% for therapeutic procedures [1]. We report a patient, treated with peritoneal dialysis because of end-stage renal failure, who developed peritonitis following intes...

Cabot' stated that a leucocytosiQ cf about 14,000 per c.mm. was the rule in children suffering from acute rheumatism. Ewing2 considered that mild cases of rheumatism showed no leucocytosis, but that with fever and swelling of the joints a leucocytosis from 10,000 per c.mm. occurred. If the leucocytosis be greater than 20,000 per c.mm. it indicates the presence of some complication. The leucocyt...

D.H., male, age 9 years 11 months, developed chickenpox in March 1960. He had an extensive rash and showed more general illness at the outset than did his younger brother who infected him. After a week, he complained of headache and pain in his limbs and began to vomit. When he tried to get up, he cried with pain in his legs. These symptoms persisted. When seen for the first time 14 days after ...

From the foregoing description it is evident that when rabbits are inoculated intravenously with equal amounts of tubercle bacilli of bovine and human type respectively, they are subject to an immediate reaction in the form of an interstitial pulmonary exudation, which, being of equal severity and character does not serve to distinguish the type. There is an hyperplasia of the lymphoid tissue w...