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ENOSTOSES WITHIN THE CALVARIUM

Among the many treasures in the Warren Museum of the Harvard University Medical School is a collection of about 1,000 skulls (complete or incomplete). If one excludes those which are fastened to the bony skeleton or to the vertebrae by their ligaments and the skulls of children, there are about 800. These may be divided into two groups, the first representing chiefly donations of about 300 skulls from various sources and the second a formal group of 500 skulls of prehistoric Peruvian Indians. Of the first group, many of the skulls came to the Warren family through personal friends in the early years, from 1783, when their historical collection was begun, and almost all the donations were made several years before 1847, when the Warren Museum was given to the medical school and established there. The names of R. M. Hodges, O. W. Holmes, George C. Shattuck, J. J. Astor,

A List of External Parasites from Birds of the Eastern Part of the United States

DURING the past eight years a special study has been made of the distribution of the various external parasites found on the birds of the United States. Most of the material has been collected by the members of our staff, although many records have been sent to us by bird-banders, naturalists, and other persons interested in the subject. A number of very interesting records have been found, and many new host and distribution records have been accumulated. Most of the records obtained have been from birds in the States east of the Mississippi River. In order to make these data available to other workers this paper has been prepared. There are here recorded 198 different species of external parasites from 255 species and subspecies of wild birds from various States east of the Mississippi River during the years from 1928 to 1935 inclusive. The external parasites considered here are the Mallophaga or biting lice, the Hippoboscidae or bird-flies, the mites, and the ticks. Only records from the files of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine are included, no attempt having been made to complete the list by compiling records from other collections or published data. Previous lists of Mallophaga have been published which may be consulted for additional data (see list of references). Owing to the large number of birds listed and the limits of time and space, it was necessary to confine the distribution data to the States in which each species of parasite was collected. I want to take this opportunity to thank the many persons who have sent material to us for helping to gather the information here presented. I wish also to acknowledge the valuable assistance of the specialists who identified the material recorded in this list. The flies were determined by the late Dr. J. M. Aldrich of the United States National Museum and by Dr. J. Bequaert of Harvard University Medical School, the mites by Dr. H. E. Ewing of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, and the ticks by Dr. F. C. Bishopp and Mr. C. N. Smith of the same bureau. The Mallophaga were all determined by the author. There are some birds from which few kinds of parasites have been obtained. Other birds were found to harbor many species; such were the Bob-white, Song Sparrow, and Robin, from each of which fifteen species of parasites are listed. There are some species of birds found in the region considered in this paper from which no parasites

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Physical Diagnosis.

The life history of any popular medical book is always of interest. In 1900, Dr. Richard Cabot, then an assistant in clinical medicine at the Harvard University Medical School, took it on himself to write a book on the physical diagnosis of diseases of the chest. This book was intended for students; as Dr. Cabot stated, it contained nothing original but endeavored to describe in simple concise English how the chest should be examined and to do away with certain well worn myths regarding physical diagnosis that had been carried onward in nearly all textbooks. This volume was 310 pages long and contained among other novelties several roentgenograms of thoracic conditions bewilderingly difficult to appreciate and certainly impossible for the hard-headed clinician of those days to take seriously. However, the book was a distinct contribution to American medicine: It started teachers thinking how to improve clinical instruction. The book was

ETIOLOGY OF WHOOPING COUGH

To the Editor: The present communication was inspired by the appearance in your editorial columns during the past six weeks of two comments on the etiology of whooping (The Journal, Nov. 26, 1932, p. 1866 and Dec. 17, p. 2115). Most of our knowledge of the bacteriology and serology of whooping has come from Europe, yet in your columns, widely read in Europe, such foreign data are not mentioned. Thorvald Madsen ( Boston M. & S. J. 192 :50 [Jan. 8] 1924) summarized the work of his staff at the Danish National Serum Institute in the Cutler Lecture given at Harvard University Medical School in 1924. He described the results obtained with the cough plate of Chievitz and Meyer ( Ann. de l'Inst. Pasteur 30 :503 [Oct.] 1916), which has now been used for sixteen years as a routine diagnostic procedure in Denmark. The acceptance of this procedure by the

CHOKED DISK (PAPILLEDEMA) DUE TO DISEASE OF THE SPHENOIDAL SINUS

In 1920, dishing 1 of Harvard University Medical School said is inconceivable that suppurative processes in the posterior paranasal sinuses can produce choked disk. He admitted that inflammatory processes may affect the optic nerve in such a way as to produce redness, injection and possibly such a degree of hyperemia and vascularity of the nerve head as to resemble the early hyperemic stage of choked disk, but said is unbelievable that an infection of the nasal sinuses in the absence of increased intracranial tension can produce an actual choked disk, a condition brought about by mechanical causes. From that time up to a quite recent date Cushing's opinion seems to have been accepted and reiterated not only by some leading neurosurgeons but also by a number of well trained and experienced ophthalmologists. It is entirely possible, as Cushing says, that much confusion exists in the conception of choked

Book Review Differential Diagnosis . Presented through an Analysis of 385 Cases. By Richard C. Cabot, M.D., Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Harvard University Medical School, Boston. Second edition. Revised. Profusely illustrated. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders Company. 1912.

Book Review Differential Diagnosis . Presented through an Analysis of 385 Cases. By Richard C. Cabot, M.D., Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Harvard University Medical School, Boston. Second edition. Revised. Profusely illustrated. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders Company. 1912.

Book Review Differential Diagnosis . Presented through an Analysis of 883 Cases. By Richard C. Cabot, M.D., Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Harvard University Medical School, Boston. pp. 753. Profusely illustrated. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders Company. 1911.

Book Review Differential Diagnosis . Presented through an Analysis of 883 Cases. By Richard C. Cabot, M.D., Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Harvard University Medical School, Boston. pp. 753. Profusely illustrated. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders Company. 1911.

Collected Papers, 1909, Department of Neuropathology, Harvard University Medical School

Back to table of contents Previous article Next article ARTICLENo AccessCollected Papers, 1909, Department of Neuropathology, Harvard University Medical SchoolW. R. D.W. R. D.Search for more papers by this authorPublished Online:1 Apr 2006https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.67.1.208AboutSectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail "Collected Papers, 1909, Department of Neuropathology, Harvard University Medical School." American Journal of Psychiatry, 67(1), p. 208 Access content To read the fulltext, please use one of the options below to sign in or purchase access. Personal login Institutional Login Sign in via OpenAthens Purchase Save for later Item saved, go to cart PPV Articles - American Journal of Psychiatry $35.00 Add to cart PPV Articles - American Journal of Psychiatry Checkout Please login/register if you wish to pair your device and check access availability. Not a subscriber? Subscribe Now / Learn More PsychiatryOnline subscription options offer access to the DSM-5 library, books, journals, CME, and patient resources. This all-in-one virtual library provides psychiatrists and mental health professionals with key resources for diagnosis, treatment, research, and professional development. Need more help? PsychiatryOnline Customer Service may be reached by emailing [email protected] or by calling 800-368-5777 (in the U.S.) or 703-907-7322 (outside the U.S.). FiguresReferencesCited byDetailsCited byNone Volume 67Issue 1 July 1910Pages 208-208 Metrics PDF download History Published online 1 April 2006 Published in print 1 July 1910

Book Review Legal Medicine and Toxicology . By R. L. Emerson, A.B., M.D. (Harvard); Member of the Massachusetts Medico-Legal Society; formerly Instructor in Physiological Chemistry, Harvard University Medical School; and Assistant in Clinical Pathology, Boston City Hospital. New York and London: D. Appleton & Co. 1909.

Book Review Legal Medicine and Toxicology . By R. L. Emerson, A.B., M.D. (Harvard); Member of the Massachusetts Medico-Legal Society; formerly Instructor in Physiological Chemistry, Harvard University Medical School; and Assistant in Clinical Pathology, Boston City Hospital. New York and London: D. Appleton & Co. 1909.

Book Review Pathological Technic . A Practical Manual for Workers in Pathological Histology and Bacteriology. By Frank Burr Mallory, A.M., M.D., Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard University Medical School; and James Homer Wright, A.M., M.D., S.D. Fourth edition, revised and enlarged, with 152 illustrations. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders Company. 1908.

Book Review Pathological Technic . A Practical Manual for Workers in Pathological Histology and Bacteriology. By Frank Burr Mallory, A.M., M.D., Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard University Medical School; and James Homer Wright, A.M., M.D., S.D. Fourth edition, revised and enlarged, with 152 illustrations. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders Company. 1908.

HARRINGTONʼS OPERATION OF INTRAPERITONEAL CYSTOTOMY

Surgeon to the Massachusetts General Hospital; Lecturer on Surgery, Harvard University Medical School.

The Treatment Of Fractures

Surgeon to the Massachusetts General Hospital; Lecturer on Surgery in the Harvard University Medical School.

Book Review The Treatment of Fractures; with Notes upon a Few Common Dislocations . By Charles Locke Scudder, M.D., Surgeon to the Massachusetts General Hospital; Lecturer on Surgery in the Harvard University Medical School. Sixth edition, thoroughly revised and enlarged; with 856 illustrations. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders Company. 1907.

Book Review The Treatment of Fractures; with Notes upon a Few Common Dislocations . By Charles Locke Scudder, M.D., Surgeon to the Massachusetts General Hospital; Lecturer on Surgery in the Harvard University Medical School. Sixth edition, thoroughly revised and enlarged; with 856 illustrations. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders Company. 1907.

Recent Literature A Manual of Practical Hygiene . For Students, Physicians and Medical Officers. By Charles Harrington, M.D., Assistant Professor of Hygiene in Harvard University Medical School, Boston. Third edition, revised and enlarged. Illustrated. Philadelphia and New York: Lea Brothers & Co. 1905.

Recent Literature A Manual of Practical Hygiene . For Students, Physicians and Medical Officers. By Charles Harrington, M.D., Assistant Professor of Hygiene in Harvard University Medical School, Boston. Third edition, revised and enlarged. Illustrated. Philadelphia and New York: Lea Brothers & Co. 1905.

Recent Literature Pathological Technique . A practical manual for workers in pathological histology and bacteriology, including directions for the performance of autopsies and for clinical diagnosis by laboratory methods. By Frank Burr Mallory, A.M., M.D., Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard University Medical School, First Assistant Visiting Pathologist to the Boston City Hospital, Pathologist to the Children's Hospital; and James Homer

Recent Literature Pathological Technique . A practical manual for workers in pathological histology and bacteriology, including directions for the performance of autopsies and for clinical diagnosis by laboratory methods. By Frank Burr Mallory, A.M., M.D., Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard University Medical School, First Assistant Visiting Pathologist to the Boston City Hospital, Pathologist to the Children's Hospital; and James Homer

Recent Literature Clinical Talks on Surgery . By James G. Mumford, M.D., Assistant Visiting Surgeon to the Massachusetts General Hospital and Instructor in Surgery, Harvard University Medical School. The Old Corner Book Store. Boston. 1903.

Recent Literature Clinical Talks on Surgery . By James G. Mumford, M.D., Assistant Visiting Surgeon to the Massachusetts General Hospital and Instructor in Surgery, Harvard University Medical School. The Old Corner Book Store. Boston. 1903.

Recent Literature American Edition of Nothnagel's Practice . Diseases of the Pancreas, Diseases of the Suprarenal Capsules, and Diseases of the Liver. By L. Oser, M.D., Professor of Internal Medicine, Vienna; E. Neusser, M.D., Professor of Internal Medicine, Vienna, and H. Quincke, M.D., Professor of Practice of Medicine, Kiel, and G. Hoppe-Seyler, Professor of Internal Medicine, Kiel. Edited, with additions,

Recent Literature American Edition of Nothnagel's Practice . Diseases of the Pancreas, Diseases of the Suprarenal Capsules, and Diseases of the Liver. By L. Oser, M.D., Professor of Internal Medicine, Vienna; E. Neusser, M.D., Professor of Internal Medicine, Vienna, and H. Quincke, M.D., Professor of Practice of Medicine, Kiel, and G. Hoppe-Seyler, Professor of Internal Medicine, Kiel. Edited, with additions,

Expansion of Harvard University Medical School — The Progressive Work of the Elmira Reformatory — An American Pioneer in Dermatology — Medical Notes — Army Notes

Editorial from The New England Journal of Medicine — Expansion of Harvard University Medical School — The Progressive Work of the Elmira Reformatory — An American Pioneer in Dermatology — Medical Notes — Army Notes

Recent Literature Pathological Technique . By Frank Burr Mallory, A.M., M.D., Assistant Professor of Pathology, Harvard University Medical School; Assistant Pathologist to the Boston City Hospital; Pathologist to the Children's Hospital and to the Carney Hospital; and James Homer Wright, A.M., M.D., Director of the Laboratory of the Massachusetts General Hospital; Instructor in Pathology, Harvard University Medical School. Philadelphia: W.

Recent Literature Pathological Technique . By Frank Burr Mallory, A.M., M.D., Assistant Professor of Pathology, Harvard University Medical School; Assistant Pathologist to the Boston City Hospital; Pathologist to the Children's Hospital and to the Carney Hospital; and James Homer Wright, A.M., M.D., Director of the Laboratory of the Massachusetts General Hospital; Instructor in Pathology, Harvard University Medical School. Philadelphia: W.