RECURRENT herpes simplex virus infections are usually self-limited, but they produce sufficient discomfort and embarrassment to cause many afflicted patients to seek some form of therapy. The epidemiologic association of the herpes simplex viruses with ...

IT has recently been reported that propranolol, when taken by mouth for at least several days, can effectively suppress action tremors of the essential, familial or senile varieties.¹ Though propranolol has other effects, its chief clinical use is to ...

THE residual effect of stroke on the health of the community depends on the disability remaining in survivors after maximal clinical and functional recovery has taken place. Precise knowledge of the magnitude and pattern of long-term stroke disability in ...

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Liver

Biliary Atresia

Kasai et al. initiated a novel approach several years ago when they achieved unusual success in the treatment of biliary atresia by hepatoportoenterostomy.¹⁶⁸ Campbell has noted that the Japanese series now ...

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Modes of Administration

Although drugs such as aminophylline, diazoxide, furosemide and lidocaine are actually administered by rapid intravenous injection, other modes of drug administration are obviously more common. All present ...

CLINICIANS and clinical physiologists would prefer to base an understanding of the function and regulation of the cardiovascular system on observations carried out in man. However, both ethical considerations and limitations in instrumentation mandate the ...

Presentation of Case

A 23-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of pain in the feet.

He was in excellent health until one year previously, when he began to travel in Europe and reduced his customary heavy intake of milk. Several months later ...

The data provided by the double-blind study reported in this issue of the Journal by Myers et al. indicate that the neutral-red and light treatment of recurrent cutaneous and mucocutaneous lesions caused by the herpes-simplex-genitalis viruses was no ...

Drugs are subject to type-casting. Once we become impressed with their stellar performance of an important pharmacologic function, we tend to attribute all their effects to this mechanism. Propranolol is an outstanding example of this conceptual short ...

In December of last year an editorial appeared in the Journal ¹ that delineated the problems arising from the ill conceived and ill fated venture of the Nixon administration into the control of the production of Papaver somniferum, the opium poppy. The ...

DEATHS

Amore — John M. Amore, M.D., of Marshfield, died on July 3. He was in his 73d year.

Dr. Amore received his degree from Kansas City University of Physicians and Surgeons in 1933. He was a member of the American Medical Association.

He is survived by ...

To the Editor: The article, "Primer on Certain Elements of Medical Decision Making" (N Engl J Med 293:211, 1975), by McNeil et al., was a fine, comprehensible explication of what is for many an imposing theoretical subject.

I might suggest two small ...

The task of describing the whole range of the rheumatic diseases and the various endocrine, metabolic and muscular syndromes that produce rheumatic complaints is a gigantic undertaking, and is not one that either this author or any other is likely to ...

The title of the book implies a thorough and complete discussion of all lymphoproliferative disorders. In fact, most of the book relates to the discussion of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, immunoglobulin disorders, and also includes a discussion of sarcoidosis, ...

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The American Neurological Association was founded in 1875 "to be devoted, as the name imparts, to the cultivation of Neurological Science, in its normal and pathological relations. The number of members not to exceed fifty." In 1924 a semi-centennial ...

SYMPOSIUM ON COLORECTAL CANCER

A symposium on colorectal cancer, sponsored by the Wesson Memorial Hospital and the American Cancer Society, will be held at the Hospital, Springfield, Massachusetts, on Saturday, November 15, at 10 a.m. The course has been ...

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