Encephalitis due to herpes simplex virus is considered the most common cause of sporadic fatal encephalitis in this country.^{1 , 2} Both the high mortality and the attendant morbidity in the few survivors^{3 4 5} have prompted attempts at therapy with ...

Circulating immune complexes have been demonstrated in serum specimens of patients with Hodgkin's disease.^{1 2 3} The nephrotic syndrome rarely occurs in association with Hodgkin's disease and may, on occasion, involve deposition of immune complexes within ...

Since the advent of the 99mtechnetium-labeled phosphates, preoperative and sequential postoperative bone scanning has become routine in many institutions for the evaluation of patients with boneseeking tumors. The bone scan has been shown to be a very ...

Although the efficacy of parenteral vasodilator drugs in the therapy of acute and chronic congestive heart failure is well documented,^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16} no single available oral agent has comparable effectiveness for the long-term ...

NO burn is certainly fatal until the patient dies; the most severely burned patient may speak of hope with his last breath. Unable to prophesy, and unwilling to strip the patient of any hope he may cherish, we therefore prefer to diagnose burns as "fatal" ...

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Group A streptococci produce many infections, but the two most common are pharyngitis and impetigo. In a pediatric practice in Rochester, New York, approximately 10 per cent of office visits were related to streptococcal disease, and ...

More than 60 elements have been found in micro-organisms, higher plants and animals, including man. Those ordinarily present in tissues only in minute quantity, picograms to micrograms per gram of wet organ, are arbitrarily designated "trace elements"; ...

Presentation of Case

First admission (1966). A 47-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of diarrhea.

She was well until two years earlier, when a cholecystectomy was followed by crampy lower abdominal pain and the urgent passage of loose, ...

Experiments on isolated cardiac tissue have established that myocardial-fiber shortening is dependent on three factors: the preload, which determines the muscle fiber's end-diastolic length; the contractile or inotropic state of the myocardium; and the ...

The importance of the article, "Autonomy for Burned Patients When Survival Is Unprecedented" (p. 308, this issue), is that it shows that ethics in medicine is not something restricted to pieties in conference rooms or seminars; it is, like the sciences of ...

AN organization called the "Tay-Sachs Prevention Program" displays publicly the following brightly colored sign:

A SIMPLE BLOOD TEST CAN PREVENT TAY-SACHS DISEASE

DETECTION AND COUNSELING ENABLE CARRIER COUPLES

TO HAVE CHILDREN FREE OF THIS DISEASE

Hardly ...

Let me sleep among the shadows of the mountains, In the murmur of the pines and sliding streams, Where the long day loiters by like a cloud across the sky; And the moon-drenched night is musical with dreams.

All the wisdom, all the beauty I have lived for,...

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To the Editor: Maroko et al.¹ demonstrated that hyaluronidase administered for 48 hours reduced the extension of electrocardiographic signs of myocardial necrosis. Like hyaluronidase, nitroglycerin accelerated the fall of ST-segment elevations in ...

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To the Editor: Although fever has been well documented as an adverse effect of Isoniazid (INH) used in tuberculosis chemotherapy (700 mg per day)¹ febrile reactions to INH used alone for chemoprophylaxis (300 mg per day) have rarely been documented.² The ...

To the Editor: 5-Fluorouracil is a frequently used chemotherapeutic agent. The most common adverse reactions involve the gastrointestinal tract and bone marrow. Dermatologic reactions occur in 15 to 20 per cent of patients and are probably "nonallergic" ...

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To the Editor: Van Woert, Yip and Balis¹ report an alteration in the isoelectric focusing of the enzyme hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase, E.C.2.4.2.8 (HGPRT), in red-cell lysates of patients affected with the Gilles de la Tourette syndrome. ...

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The New York City Affiliate of the National Council on Alcoholism and the New York University Post-Graduate Medical School will sponsor a course entitled "Office Management of the Alcoholic and Alcohol Abuser for the Primary Physician," October 13–15 at ...