Medicine and Surgery, Volume 2, Issue 4

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1918
 

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Page 492 - A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.
Page 492 - All French territory should be freed and the invaded portions restored, and the wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871 in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine, which has unsettled the peace of the world for nearly fifty years, should be righted, in order that peace may once more be made secure in the interest of all.
Page 425 - ... tests with tuberculin have practically no such absolute values as have been claimed for them by many enthusiasts. Often enough, they only add confusion to the ilinical data which, after all, must be used as criteria for action.
Page 392 - Any man with even a very limited amount of pulmonary tuberculosis. that is latent or arrested, is almost certain to break down under the physical strain of military training and army life, and a focus of disease previously latent or arrested will almost certainly become active.
Page 464 - ... of an inch within its margin, frequently occurring in scattered nodules separated, perhaps, by an inch or more of healthy tissue. It is not unusual to find in these scattered nodules the only evidence of disease on the anterior aspect of the lung, when posteriorly excavation has advanced to such a degree that but little more than the pleura remains.
Page 480 - ... subject of much physiological experimentation. Intravenous injections of extracts of the whole gland raise the blood pressure (Oliver and Schafer, 1895). These effects are due in reality to extract of the posterior lobe or pars nervosa (Howell, 1898). The rise in blood pressure is due to arteriospasm of all the vessels except the renal arteries, which, after a brief period of constriction, dilate. This dilatation of the renal vessels, together with the specific stimulation of the renal epithelium,...
Page 474 - Cases in which the neighborhood manifestations are pronounced but the glandular symptoms are absent or inconspicuous. Group III. — Cases in which neighborhood manifestations are absent or inconspicuous though glandular symptoms are pronounced and unmistakable. Group IV. — Cases in which obvious distant cerebral lesions are accompanied by symptomatic indications of secondary pituitary involvement. Group V. — Cases with a polyglandular syndrome in which the functional disturbances on the part...
Page 474 - Cases of dyspituitarism in which not only the signs indicating distortion of neighborhood structures, but also the symptoms betraying the effects of altered glandular activity are outspoken. Group II. Cases in which the neighborhood manifestations are pronounced, but the glandular symptoms are absent or inconspicuous. Group III. Cases in which neighborhood manifestations are absent or inconspicuous, though glandular symptoms are pronounced and unmistakable.
Page 377 - The author in his preface says that in the preparation of this little book, his aim was to present as briefly and clearly as possible the rather complex relationship which frcqutntly exists between infections of the gum and alveolar process and certain systemic disorders.
Page 492 - A readjustment of the frontiers of Italy "along clearly recognizable lines of nationality.

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