DURING the years 1780 and 1781, Massachusetts was part of a society enduring three great ordeals: war, revolution, and the creation of a new nation. These years did not represent the early and exhilarating phase of these phenomena. By this time they had ...

THE act of the Massachusetts legislature by which the state's medical society was formally incorporated in 1781 begins by referring to health as "essentially necessary to the happiness of society" and to its preservation or recovery as "closely connected ...

DR. JOHN CALEF (1726–1812) was more often afield than at home in Ipswich practicing medicine. A list of his titles and appointments includes Surgeon, Frigate Massachusetts; Surgeon, Col. Bagley's regiment; Representative to the Provincial Assembly; twice ...

TWO hundred years ago the Massachusetts Medical Society was founded by a distinguished group of physicians. It was at the close of the Revolution, and the need for medical organization was so great that the founders overlooked the recent passions and ...

Within the past few years great advances have been made in the arts and sciences. The study of electricity has given us the telegraph and the telephone with all their varied applications to the determination of questions in Astronomy as well as the wants ...

WE have shown that the opiate antagonist naloxone improves functional neurologic recovery after experimentally induced spinal injury in the cat.^{1 , 2} The use of naloxone to treat spinal injury was based on earlier work from our laboratories that ...

EPIDEMIOLOGIC evidence suggests an etiologic relation between hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and primary hepatocellular carcinoma.¹ In the United States and Western Europe, the incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma is relatively low (about three cases ...

WHEN patients with cold-induced urticaria are challenged with a cold stimulus, their exposed areas become pruritic, and hive formation and swelling are evident within a few minutes.¹ Investigations regarding the pathogenesis of idiopathic cold urticaria ...

SPLENIC sequestration of blood cells has been identified by several investigators as one cause of pancytopenia in dialyzed patients.^{1 , 2} In the case described below, a foreign-body reaction to silicone in the spleen was identified as a cause of ...

FOR over half a century clinical investigators have suggested an association between performance of a lumbar puncture during bacteremia and later development of meningitis.^{1 , 2} To determine whether such an association exists, we reviewed our experience ...

Presentation of Case

A 42-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of a question of constrictive pericarditis.

He was well until four years previously, when an x-ray film of the chest, obtained elsewhere, revealed mediastinal enlargement. No ...

Two hundred years ago, as the American Revolution was ending, the Great and General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts voted to grant the petition of 14 Boston physicians and established the Massachusetts Medical Society. Governor John Hancock ...

IN this issue of the Journal,¹ Faden and his colleagues report that thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) dramatically ameliorates the neurologic consequences of spinal-cord injury in cats. This finding has both specific and general implications. ...

Although cold urticaria is sometimes scarcely more than a minor annoyance, there is substantial disability in more severe cases, and occasionally it may result in death from swimming in cold water. In addition to the clinical importance of cold urticaria, ...

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To the Editor: The results of the study by Lindholm et al.¹ on the effects of bromocriptine in acromegaly deserve comment. Bromocriptine has been used in the treatment of acromegaly for over six years, and the results of treatment in several hundred ...

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To the Editor: Development of a chronic carrier state is reported to occur in approximately 10 per cent of hepatitis B virus infections.¹ When household contacts of blood donors positive for hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) were studied, 6.7 per cent ...

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To the Editor: Santiago et al.¹ reported that naloxone could restore flow-resistive load compensation in some normocapnic patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, respiratory sensitivity to hypercapnia was unaffected by the ...

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To the Editor: Although clinical events are potentially quantifiable, most are described in semiquantitative terms such as "frequently," "usually," or "sometimes." We are accustomed to hearing these terms used and equally accustomed to seeing them in ...

An earlier history of the Massachusetts Medical Society had been written by Walter L. Burrage and published in 1923, but as the bicentennial of the Society approached, there was an imperative need for an update of that account. Everett R. Spencer, Jr., ...

Psychiatry and Psychology

Adult Psychiatry Case Studies: A compilation of 55 clinical studies. Edited by A. Dale Gulledge. 224 pp. Garden City, N.Y., Medical Examination Publishing, 1981. $14.75.

Electroconvulsive Therapy: An appraisal. Edited by Robert ...

THE HEART

The 32d annual scientific session of the Maine Affiliate of the American Heart Association will be held at the University of Southern Maine in Gorham on November 7 and 8. The fee is $100.

Contact Robin Miller, American Heart Assoc., Maine ...