Disease In Veterans Research Articles

Sarcoidosis; clinical observation on one hundred sixty cases.

Sarcoidosis can no longer be regarded as a rare disease. A recent investigation disclosed 1194 cases of this disease in Veterans' Administration Hospitals in a five-year interval, 1 and chest x-ray surveys of 1,000,000 inhabitants of Sweden between 1950 and 1954 detected almost half as many cases of sarcoidosis as of tuberculosis. 2 Whether these impressive numbers of cases are merely the result of better recognition or whether sarcoidosis is actually increasing in prevalence remains to be determined. In either event, because of its growing importance, sarcoidosis is a disease with which all physicians should be familiar. Reported here are observations in 160 patients who came under our observation between 1938 and 1956, in clinic, hospital, or office practice. All cases included in this series had one or more biopsies demonstrating epithelioid tubercles. The age and sex distribution of these patients, shown in Table 1, is typical of that observed

Hookworm Masked by Complicating Diseases in Veterans

Hookworm Masked by Complicating Diseases in Veterans G. W. Millett, M.D., F.A.C.P. G. W. Millett, M.D., F.A.C.P. Chief Professional Services V.A. Hospital, Montgomery, Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Military Surgeon, Volume 103, Issue 4, October 1948, Pages 279–283, https://doi.org/10.1093/milmed/103.4.279 Published: 01 October 1948

Tropical Diseases in Veterans of World War II

SINCE the cessation of hostilities, some ten million soldiers, sailors and marines have returned from overseas and resumed civilian life. Because a significant percentage served in areas notorious for the prevalence of tropical and exotic diseases, a serious concern quite justifiably exists regarding the possible effects on civilian public health and on civilian medical practice in general.Butler and Sapero,1 in 1945, analyzed the possibilities of new tropical diseases being introduced into the United States and stated that, during the two-year period 1943–1944, many thousands of servicemen who had acquired tropical diseases overseas had already returned and that no new . . .