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Acute Subpectoral Abscess: A Surgical Emergency

CASE reports of acute subpectoral abscess and suppurative lymphadenitis — or "subpectoral phlegmon," as it is sometimes called — have appeared occasionally in both the American1 2 3 and the foreign4 , 5 medical literature. The authors usually state that the condition is of relative infrequency, a contention seemingly borne out by a lack of any collected series. A review of the surgical records of the Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals for the past fifteen years reveals a group of 5 cases of acute subpectoral abscess or suppurative lymphadenitis, and 1 case is added from private practice.Because the nature and behavior of this form of . . .

Effect of Pentaquine in Patients with Hypertension.

Following World War II, Freis returned to Boston to work with Wilkins at Massachusetts Memorial Hospital. Their work on pentaquine was an outgrowth of anti-malarial work conducted by others during the war, in which it was observed that some volunteers developed orthostatic hypotension. In this article, they report that the drug did lower blood pressure, yet it would not be an effective antihypertensive agent because it also produced severe toxic effects.

Surgical Treatment of Hypertension

Dr. Smithwick is Surgeon-in-Chief, Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals, Boston, and Professor of Surgery at the Boston University School of Medicine. He is also a member of the Board of Consulation of the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Dr. Kinsey is Assistant in Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, and Assistant Visiting Physician on the medical staff of the Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals.

Penicillin

Da. ANDERSON is Instructor in Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine and Research Fellow in Medicine, the Evans Memorial, Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals.

THIOURACIL IN THE PREPARATION OF THYROTOXIC PATIENTS FOR SURGERY*

Boston, Mass. FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY, BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, AND THE MASSACHUSETTS MEMORIAL HOSPITALS, AND FROM THE THORNDIKE MEMORIAL LABORATORY, THE SECOND AND FOURTH MEDICAL SERVICES (HARVARD), BOSTON CITY HOSPITAL, AND THE DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE, HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL, BOSTON, MASS.

THIOURACIL IN THE PREPARATION OF THYROTOXIC PATIENTS FOR SURGERY*

Boston, Mass. FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY, BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, AND THE MASSACHUSETTS MEMORIAL HOSPITALS, AND FROM THE THORNDIKE MEMORIAL LABORATORY, THE SECOND AND FOURTH MEDICAL SERVICES (HARVARD), BOSTON CITY HOSPITAL, AND THE DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE, HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL, BOSTON, MASS.

The Management of a Blood Bank at the Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals: The New Problem of Rh Typing

The Management of a Blood Bank at the Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals: The New Problem of Rh Typing

Roentgen Study of Primary Atypical Virus Pneumonia

Small epidemics of virus pneumonia have been prevalent in this country since the fall of 1935. Since the disease is usually not fatal, there has been comparatively little pathologic material available for study. There appear, however, to be certain clinical, roentgenologic, and laboratory findings which help to form a fairly clear picture of the entity. This report is based on a study of 100 consecutive cases observed in the Department of Radiology of the Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals. Etiology Virus pneumonia is probably due to a filtrable virus, which has not yet been identified. Eaton, Beck and Pearson (1), discussing the cases described by Reimann (11), Kneeland and Smetana (5), and by Longcope (10), state that atypical pneumonia presents clinical similarities to cases of recognized psittacosis. They believe that the causative agent in some instances may be antigenically related to the virus of meningopneumonitis and psittacosis. Nigg (2) was able to produce pneumonia and systemic infection in mice...

Fundamentals of Immunology

Journal Article Fundamentals of Immunology Get access Fundamentals of Immunology. By William C. Boyd, Ph.D., Assooiate Professor of Biochemistry, Boston University, Sohool of Medicine; Associate Member, Evans Memorial, Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals, Boston, Mass. Cloth. Pp. 446, with 45 illustrations. $5.50. New York: Interscience Publishers, 1943. American Journal of Clinical Pathology, Volume 13, Issue 6, 1 June 1943, Page 328, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcp/13.6.328 Published: 01 June 1943

The Diagnosis of Sprue in Nontropical Areas

SPRUE and spruelike states are not rare in northern latitudes, but the complicating features are often so prominent that the underlying disorder is not immediately recognized. Four patients seen within the last two) years at the Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals illustrate not only the wide variety of symptoms encountered but also the ensuing diagnostic difficulties. In each of these cases initial failure to make the correct diagnosis postponed adequate therapy, which, in sprue, may not be completely curative but will often allow a severely debilitated person to resume a normal life. Hence reports of these patients are presented,

Diets in general surgery

The subject of dietary régimes in surgery is one often passed over too lightly by surgeons. A compilation of the diets more commonly used on the general surgical service of the Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals, Boston, is presented. In discussing these diets an effort has been made to emphasize practical aspects. It is suggested that mimeographed copies of surgical diets for distribution to patients may prove useful.

Six Years' Experience of the Thyroid Service at the Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals

Six Years' Experience of the Thyroid Service at the Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals

THE DETERMINATION OF THE TRUE CELL VOLUME BY DYE DILUTION, BY PROTEIN DILUTION, AND WITH RADIOACTIVE IRON. THE ERROR OF THE CENTRIFUGE HEMATOCRIT

ArticleTHE DETERMINATION OF THE TRUE CELL VOLUME BY DYE DILUTION, BY PROTEIN DILUTION, AND WITH RADIOACTIVE IRON. THE ERROR OF THE CENTRIFUGE HEMATOCRITM. A. Chapin, and J. F. RossM. A. ChapinFrom the Evans Memorial, Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals, and the Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, and J. F. RossFrom the Evans Memorial, Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals, and the Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MassachusettsPublished Online:01 Sep 1942https://doi.org/10.1152/ajplegacy.1942.137.2.447MoreSectionsPDF (1 MB)Download PDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesGet permissionsTrack citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInWeChat Previous Back to Top Next Download PDF FiguresReferencesRelatedInformation More from this issue > Volume 137Issue 2September 1942Pages 447-455 Copyright & PermissionsCopyright © 1942 by American Physiological Societyhttps://doi.org/10.1152/ajplegacy.1942.137.2.447History Received 7 June 1942 Published online 1 September 1942 Published in print 1 September 1942 Metrics

Tyrothricin Therapy of Experimental Hemolytic Streptococcal Empyema

Journal Article Tyrothricin Therapy of Experimental Hemolytic Streptococcal Empyema Get access Charles H. Rammelkamp Charles H. Rammelkamp From the Evans Memorial and Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals, and Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Volume 71, Issue 1, July 1942, Pages 40–46, https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/71.1.40 Published: 01 July 1942 Article history Received: 14 October 1941 Published: 01 July 1942

The Management of a Blood Bank at the Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals

AT a recent clinical meeting of the Boston Surgical Society, considerable interest was shown in the technical management of the blood bank at the Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals. The questions and discussions arising in that demonstration prompted the writing of this paper. No attempt is made to review the history of this subject. A recent survey of the literature on blood banks, with an excellent bibliography, is presented by Douglass.1 There are very few active blood banks in New England. The reason for this may be the fallacy that the management of a bank requires the services of several full-time technicians, as well as the expenditure of large sums of money. I shall endeavor to prove that this idea is wrong. A blood bank must have concrete reasons for its existence and demonstrable evidence of its value. The experience of the Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals is that a blood bank provides immediate availability of blood of various types, a safe blood from the standpoint of the transmission of syphilis, an economical blood (the cost of our transfusions has been materially reduced), a

EXPERIENCES WITH ENDAURAL SURGERY: PRELIMINARY REPORT

In his paper on the Endaural, Antauricular Surgical Approach to the Temporal Bone, Lempert 1 concluded: A careful comparative study of the postoperative course, the convalescence, the period of healing and the ultimate end results obtained in the 1,780 consecutive cases in which operation was performed by me through the endaural, antauricular surgical approach... more than justifies my abandonment of the postauricular approach to the temporal bone. With a view to investigating this method of approach, we employed the endaural route in operating on a small number of patients who entered the otolaryngological service of the Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals from January to July 1940, and compared the postoperative course and results with those in a similar group of cases in which operation was performed by the postaural approach. It is not our purpose in this paper to discuss the anatomic and surgical details of the method (for a discussion of these

A SIMPLIFIED CITRATE-DEXTROSE BLOOD PRESERVATIVE

In the Oct. 14, 1939 issue ofThe Journalthe Transfusion Service of the Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals, Boston, reported on Use of Placental Blood for Transfusion. 1 This article emphasized among other things the advantage obtained by the addition of dextrose to the preservative. We reported that the addition of dextrose retarded hemolysis from fourteen and four-tenths days to twenty-two and threetenths days. This same paper stated that we were confident a series of blood specimens then being studied would show an even more delayed hemolysis. It is on this series of 250 blood specimens that we are now reporting. The Rous and Turner 2 solution consisting of dextrose, citrate and blood, as described by Robertson, 3 was efficacious in delaying hemolysis. There were two outstanding disadvantages in their technic: (1) the large amount of preservative that was required; (2) the concentration of sodium citrate in the mixture, which

MODIFICATION OF ADRENALIN INTOXICATION BY ADRENALECTOMY

ArticleMODIFICATION OF ADRENALIN INTOXICATION BY ADRENALECTOMYLeland C. Wyman, and Caroline Tum SudenLeland C. WymanFrom the Physiological Laboratory of Boston University School of Medicine and the Evans Memorial, Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals, and Caroline Tum SudenFrom the Physiological Laboratory of Boston University School of Medicine and the Evans Memorial, Massachusetts Memorial HospitalsPublished Online:30 Apr 1939https://doi.org/10.1152/ajplegacy.1939.126.1.7MoreSectionsPDF (876 KB)Download PDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesGet permissionsTrack citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInWeChat Previous Back to Top Next Download PDF FiguresReferencesRelatedInformation More from this issue > Volume 126Issue 1April 1939Pages 7-12 Copyright & PermissionsCopyright © 1939 by American Physiological Societyhttps://doi.org/10.1152/ajplegacy.1939.126.1.7History Received 25 January 1939 Published online 30 April 1939 Published in print 30 April 1939 Metrics

AN ARTICLE CONTRIBUTED TO AN ANNIVERSARY VOLUME IN HONOR OF DOCTOR JOSEPH HERSEY PRATT

Article1 August 1937AN ARTICLE CONTRIBUTED TO AN ANNIVERSARY VOLUME IN HONOR OF DOCTOR JOSEPH HERSEY PRATTCONGENITAL ADHESIONS OF THE GALL-BLADDER*LESTER R. WHITAKER, M.D., F.A.C.S.LESTER R. WHITAKER, M.D., F.A.C.S.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-11-2-379 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptAbnormal peritoneal attachments to the gall-bladder are more common than inflammatory adhesions. Though often described these congenital adhesions1are not generally recognized, so strong is the obsession in the medical profession that all disturbances of the gall-bladder are inflammatory in origin. Yet, it should be obvious to the careful observer that these sheets of tissue, running from lesser omentum to gall-bladder, duodenum and colon, are simple folds of peritoneum having definite relations, definite structure, and regular arrangement of vessels. They cannot possibly be the result of inflammation. Often with these attachments there is no evidence of a past infection of...Bibliography1. HARRIS ML: Constrictions of the duodenum due to abnormal folds of the anterior mesogastrium, Jr. Am. Med. Assoc., 1914, lxii, 1211-1216. CrossrefGoogle Scholar2. MEYERSBLOOM SGAR: Periduodenitis and pericholecystitis, Arch. Int. Med., 1933, li, 558-570. CrossrefGoogle Scholar3. HOMANS J: A study of the symptoms and treatment of congenital trans-duodenal bands, Boston Med. and Surg. Jr., 1916, clxxv, 665-673. CrossrefGoogle Scholar4. MILLIKENWHITAKER GLR: The clinical use of sodium tetraiodophenolphthalein in cholecystography, Surg., Gynec. and Obst., 1925, xl, 646-653. Google Scholar5. LEVENEWHITAKER GLR: New methods for the clinical study of the gall-bladder, New Eng. Jr. Med., 1930, ccii, 203-214. CrossrefGoogle Scholar6. WHITAKERELLSWORTH LRSW: An improved oral method for cholecystography, New Eng. Jr. Med., 1931, ccv, 1183. CrossrefGoogle Scholar7. WHITAKER LR: The "double-oral" method for cholecystography, Am. Jr. Roent. and Rad. Therapy, 1936, xxxv, 200. Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Boston, Massachusetts*Received for publication April 16, 1937.From the Department of Anatomy, Boston University School of Medicine and the Surgical Clinic of Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals, Boston, Mass. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byClinical aspects of cholecystoduodenocolic bandsTraumatic perforation in carcinoma of the oesophagusCholecysto-Duodeno-Colic Ligament Causing High Grade Obstruction of the Duodenum: Report of a CaseObstruction of the large bowel in newborninfants due to congenital bands 1 August 1937Volume 11, Issue 2Page: 379-386KeywordsColonDuodenumHospital medicineInflammationPeritoneumRunning Issue Published: 1 August 1937 PDF downloadLoading ...