AC Administration Research Articles

The use of phenylpropyl allophanate (AC 148) in the treatment of epilepsy

Summary 1. Sixty-four epileptic patients, mostly children, who suffered with very frequent seizures were treated with phenylpropyl allophanate (AC 148). All of these patients had been refractory to treatment with maximum doses of many other anticonvulsants. 2. Forty-three patients with secondary (organic) epilepsy were treated with AC 148. The attacks were completely controlled in fifteen (35 per cent) and the number of seizures was reduced in 8 (18.5 per cent). 3. Only three (1.4 per cent) of the twenty-one patients with cryptogenic (idiopathic) epilepsy were favorably affected by the administration of AC 148. 4. No irreversible toxic reactions were encountered in any of the sixty-four patients who were given phenylpropyl allophanate (AC 148) for periods varying from six to eighteen months.

Legalizing the Professional Social Worker

It seems presumptuous for an individual to question the policy of an entire profession. To assert or even imply that the professional social worker is too extra-legal and that he should promptly subject himself to a legalizing process1 sounds unkind. A social worker who has convinced himself that it is the lawyer who needs to acquire a social viewpoint may well be irritated at a suggestion that a reverse procedure is necessary. Therefore the present article, as its title indicates, could be regarded as heresy or treason. If ultimately the decision should be in favor of heresy, the writer bespeaks the reader's prayers. But if this be treason..... The professions, in their life-cycles, probably proceed along roughly parallel lines.3 A comparative history of the movements by which these trained groups of experts have slowly but surely won public confidence would, very likely, reveal that the differences were in matters of detail more often than in the overall stages of progress. One of the most interesting steps in this maturing process is the point at which the members of the profession decide to seek the protection of the law. Social workers, in general, have not made this advance. It is argued here that on grounds both of self-interest and of increased effectiveness in their service to the public they should do so. Lawyers, physicians, and clergymen are examples of groups which have made this move. Their experience should be of interest o the social worker. The lawyer,3 perhaps naturally, seems to have made the most headway. The legal foundation upon which he functions arose partly from the nature of his work and partly from a series of deliberate decisions. The members of the legal profession are engaged in the administration f justice according to law.4 Our constitutions, federal and state, regard such activity as a public and not a private matter.5 By acts of the legislature6 and by rulings handed down by the courts7 the lawyer is considered an officer of the court—a quasi-public servant. There is probably no need to labor the point that the public has a vital interest in seeing that the administration of justice ac-