Hugh Hudson Hussey

THE TREATMENT OF ACUTE BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS WITH PENICILLIN

Excerpt Prior to the use of penicillin, the establishment of a diagnosis of acute bacterial endocarditis was tantamount to prophesying the patients death within one to six weeks. In the literature...

SEPTIC PULMONARY INFARCTION; REPORT OF 8 CASES

Excerpt The clinical features of pulmonary infarction in general are well known and have been a popular topic in recent literature. On the other hand, the manifestations of septic pulmonary infarct...

The use of “exercise tests” in connection with venous pressure measurements for the detection of venous obstruction in the upper and lower extremities

Abstract 1. 1. The fact that it is impossible, in some cases, to detect the presence of localized venous obstruction by measuring the basal venous pressure is discussed. 2. 2. A description is given of simple methods which enable one to measure “general” or “local” venous pressure in the antecubital vein, and “local” venous pressure in the popliteal vein, during exercise. 3. 3. The effects of these “exercise tests” upon the venous pressures of normal persons, patients with heart failure, and patients with localized venous obstruction are presented. 4. 4. The value of the “exercise tests” in the endeavor to demonstrate the presence of localized venous obstruction in the upper and lower extremities is illustrated by means of case reports.

THE COMPARATIVE VALUE OF CALCIUM GLUCONATE, MAGNESIUM SULFATE, AND ALPHA LOBELINE HYDROCHLORIDE AS AGENTS FOR MEASUREMENT OF THE ARM TO TONGUE CIRCULATION TIME IN 50 PATIENTS WITH AND 50 PATIENTS WITHOUT HEART FAILURE

Excerpt The arm to tongue circulation time is now recognized as a valuable means of determining the efficiency of cardiac function. It is also useful in the study of other diseases in which the vel...

The value of combined measurements of the venous pressure and arm-to-tongue and arm-to-lung circulation times in the study of heart failure

Abstract Much has been written on measurements of the venous pressure and circulation time of the blood in connection with various cardiovascular diseases. The value of such measurements in the diagnosis and continued observation in cases of heart failure has been sspecially emphasized. However, most of the clinical studies on heart failure have been concerned with one or another of these tests as an isolated procedure. Comparatively little information has been published which would indicate the importance, at times, of estimating the venous pressure and measuring the circulation time more or less simultaneously. It has been our purpose in this investigation to endeavor to appraise the value of these measurements when they are used in combination.

Hepatosplenography with Stabilized Thorium Dioxide Sol

SINCE 1928, when Oka (1 and 2), in Tokio, and soon thereafter Radt (3 and 4), in Berlin, began work to develop a method for demonstrating the morbid anatomy of the liver and spleen on x-ray plates by means of thorium preparations injected into the blood stream, several groups of investigators have had a moderately large experience with this procedure. However, those who have used this method of diagnosis have been relatively few due to the facts that thorium dioxide, the substance adopted, possesses some radioactivity and is eliminated from the body with extreme slowness. In 1932, the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry of the American Medical Association (5) reported unfavorably on the intravenous use of thorium dioxide and urged great caution in its use in man. One of the points stressed in this report was that there is a possibility that the thorium dioxide in the tissues might be converted as time went on, in part at least, to some more radio-active substance, such as mesothorium, and that radium poison...

Penicillin and sulfadiazine, compared with sulfadiazine alone, in the treatment of pneumococcic pneumonia.

Excerpt Until the discovery of penicillin, sulfadiazine and several of its analogues were recognized universally as the drugs of choice in the treatment of pneumococcic pneumonia. When penicillin w...

Job's Illness

Excerpt To the editor: The scholarly exposition by Kapusta and Frank (1) makes a strong case for Jobs illness as a model of depression. Yet diagnosis derived by historical reconstruction of events...

SYPHILITIC HEART DISEASE PROBABLY DUE TO CONGENITAL SYPHILIS; REPORT OF TWO CASES

Excerpt It is very difficult to establish the diagnosis of syphilitic aortitis in children and adolescents, and confirmation by pathological study is absolute only if theTreponema pallidumis found ...