WHETHER the spiritual or the somatic influence prevails on a trip abroad is a matter of individual variation, but there is no doubt that the energies required for the mind-expanding activities of travel are often diverted by unremitting calls to stool.

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ALTHOUGH most acute bacterial infections are associated with normal or elevated serum levels of complement,¹ significant depression of serum levels of C3 has been demonstrated in cases of gram-negative bacteremia in which shock or a fatal outcome ...

PANCREATIC cholera is a syndrome characterized by non-beta islet-cell neoplasm, profuse, watery diarrhea, severe hypokalemia, and absence of gastric acid hypersecretion.^{1 2 3} In patients with cancer and metastases, surgery, corticosteroids,^{1 2 3 4} and ...

ONE of the difficulties in assessing the functions of private philanthropy in America is that, in a changing society, past experience may not be a reliable guide for interpreting correctly current or future needs. This fact is especially true in the area ...

FERRITIN is the major iron storage protein in the body. Although it is found in all tissues there is little quantitative information about its distribution. Measurements of non-heme iron concentrations indicate a particularly large amount in the liver, ...

Laboratory Diagnosis

The fact that there is no single, universally applicable test for drug allergy is not surprising since a number of different pathogenetic mechanisms can lead to allergic symptoms. In penicillin allergy, and to a lesser extent in other ...

THE alimentary tract is known to release a variety of polypeptide hormones that co-ordinate its digestive and absorptive functions. Among them is cholecystokinin-pancreozymin, which constitutes the principal stimulus to gallbladder emptying and pancreatic ...

Presentation of Case

First admission. A 61-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of pain in the right flank.

He was well until 25 years previously, when a clinical diagnosis of alcoholic fatty liver was made. For the next 22 years he ...

Before departing on their long awaited vacation, visit, or business trip to a foreign land, many Americans pack an ample supply of various pharmaceuticals for treatment of an anticipated diarrheal illness. The medications that they carry are as varied as ...

In 1958, Verner and Morrison called attention to the coexistence of severe watery diarrhea and noninsulin-producing pancreatic islet-cell tumors.¹ Some of these patients suffer from the Zollinger-Ellison syndrome, an entity that features diarrhea without ...

The foundation world has been characterized as a feather-bedded freemasonry. Dwight MacDonald described the Ford Foundation as "a large body of money surrounded by people who want some." There are 26,000 foundations in the United States, and their ...

COMMITTEE ON MATERNAL WELFARE

Amniotic-Fluid Infusion

After one admission for false labor, a 34-year-old gravida 8, para 6, now at term for the first time in six years reported spontaneous rupture of the membranes and nine hours' "labor." The physician ...

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To the Editor: We read with interest the excellent article by Grossman et al. (N Engl J Med 291:807–811, 1974) describing acute renal failure after nontraumatic rhabdomyolysis. A serum creatinine rising at an unusually rapid rate was seen in these ...

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SYMPOSIUM ON CLINICAL CARE

A symposium on clinical care, sponsored by the University of Missouri-Kansas City, the Kansas City Southwest Clinical Society, the Academy of Health Professions and the Western Missouri Area Health Education Center will be held ...