John J. Byrne

Prophylactic postoperative chemotherapy. Failure of furltadone.

THE routine postoperative use of antibiotics is of doubtful value in preventing infections and tends actually to increase the resistant strains of bacteria. However, if a chemotherapeutic agent tha...

Dr. Francis Home and Puerperal Sepsis

THE prevention of puerperal fever is one of the great victories of medicine. It is well recognized that the clear writing of Oliver Wendell Holmes1 and the courageous exhortations of Semmelweis2 we...

Treatment of Perforated Peptic Ulcer

PERFORATION is a serious complication of peptic ulceration. Despite low mortality rates reported in various selected series, the average mortality rate in large general hospitals ranges from 10 to ...

Medicine at Plymouth Plantation.

RECONSTRUCTION of Plymouth Plantation will afford an exciting memorialization of an epochal experience. However, it should not stop with the mere material reconstruction of wood and mortar but shou...