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The Russian Jew Under Tsars and Soviets

The Russian Jew Under Tsars and Soviets

The Russian Jew Under Tsars and Soviets. By Salo W. Baron. Edited by Michael T. Florinsky. New York: Macmillan Company, 1964. 427 pp. $7.50

The Russian Jew Under Tsars and Soviets. By Salo W. Baron. Edited by Michael T. Florinsky. New York: Macmillan Company, 1964. 427 pp. $7.50 Get access Jesse V. Clardy Jesse V. Clardy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 7, Issue 3, Autumn 1965, Pages 463–464, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/7.3.463 Published: 01 October 1965

The Russian Jew under Tsars and Soviets. Salo W. Baron

<i>The Russian Jew under Tsars and Soviets</i>. Salo W. Baron

The Russian Jew under Tsars and Soviets

The Russian Jew under Tsars and Soviets

A CASE REPORT OF CUTANEOUS LEPROSY WITH A BRIEF DISCUSSION OF THE CLASSIFICATION, TREATMENT, AND EPIDEMIOLOGICAL PORTENT

Excerpt M. B., a 67 year old Russian Jew, was first admitted to the hospital May 26, 1937, with a simple fracture of the neck of the left femur following a fall. At this time he gave a history of d...

TRANSTHORACIC SUBTOTAL GASTRECTOMY AND ESOPHAGECTOMY FOR CANCER

Such radical operative procedures as esophagectomy for cancer of the esophagus and total gastrectomy for certain cancers of the stomach are now being done with increasing frequency. Numerous surgeons, both European and American (Fischer,1Sauerbruch,2Phemister,3Garlock,4Carter, Stevenson and Abbott,5Churchill,6Ochsner and DeBakey,7Jonas,8Cattell9and Marshall10), have successfully resected cancers involving both the cardiac portion of the stomach and the terminal portion of the esophagus, such operations being performed by a transthoracic, transdiaphragmatic approach and completed usually by an intrathoracic esophagogastric anastomosis. In the patient whose case is reported here, so much of the stomach and esophagus was involved by cancer as to prohibit such an anastomosis. Consequently a subtotal gastrectomy and a subtotal esophagectomy, with subsequent construction of a prethoracic artificial esophagus, were necessary. REPORT OF CASE R. B., a Russian Jew born in December 1900,

THE SILICOSIS HAZARD IN MECHANICAL DENTISTRY

On the long list of industries known to be associated with the silicosis hazard, mechanical dentistry is not to be found. It is our purpose in this communication to indicate that a silicosis hazard is present in this hitherto unlisted industry and to suggest the steps which may be taken in the elimination of the hazard. REPORT OF CASE History.— C. J., a man aged 35, a Russian Jew, employed as a dental technician, was admitted to the Division of Pulmonary Diseases of Montefiore Hospital Nov. 16, 1937. He had been transferred from another hospital, where a diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis had been made. His illness commenced in January 1936 when a slightly productive morning cough was noted. This complaint was mild and was ignored. In December the patient remarked that breathlessness was present on moderate exertion. In January 1937 a small hemoptysis occurred and this recurred at irregular intervals

ACROMEGALY CASE REPORT WITH AUTOPSY FINDINGS

A CROMEGALY is not of common occurrence according to Putnam and Davidoff (i). These authors state that “The diagnosis has been made only 14 times among the 210,094 cases admitted to the Boston City Hospital in six years from 1930 to 1935 inclusive. Males and females are about equally affected. It may occur in the black and yellow races as well as the white” I had the opportunity of observing the patient here reported develop the disease and to follow its course until death. CASE REPORT History. S. Z., a Russian Jew, aged 28, married, entered Harper Hospital July 21, 1919, complaining of pain and swelling of the right testicle. This began 5 days previously while working at his occupation of body2maker in an automobile factory, and came on immediately after using the apparatus for lifting the body onto the assembly line. He had been treated 21 months previously for a gonorrheal urethritis of 4 months2 duration.

Ewing's Tumor of the Femur with Twenty-Eight-Year Follow-Up

The following is a report of a Ewing's tumor of the femur operated upon in 1909, and without recurrence twenty-eight years later. So far as is known, it is the only case of its kind in which so long a period of survival has been recorded. The case is registered with the Bone Sarcoma Registry of the American College of Surgeons and the original pathological sections of the tumor have been reviewed by a large number of pathologists, consultants of the Bone Sarcoma Registry, who have agreed as to the diagnosis of Ewing's tumor. Case Report ( Presbyterian Hospital, Vanderbilt Clinic Unit No. 249752. Bone Sarcoma Registry No. 398 ) H. J., a male Russian Jew, was first admitted July 22, 1909, complaining of pain in the left thigh of five months' duration. He had been in America for two years, and had worked as a salesman ten hours a day indoors. In February 1909 he first noticed a “squeezing” pain in the medial aspect of the left thigh. It was localized, non-radiating, and not severe. It grew gradually worse, however, with intermittent exacerbations not provoked by any known activity. Three weeks before admission it had become more severe on walking and spread from the medial to the anterior aspect of the middle third of the thigh. At times it radiated down the leg to the ankle. It was worse at night. The function of the knee was normal, and flexion and extension of the joint without weight-bearing did not increase the pain. A liniment prescribed by a local physician gave no relief.

AN UNUSUAL CORNEAL OPACITY

This case of opacity of the cornea is reported because of its rarity and its obscure nature and origin. The opacity was confined to the anterior layers of the substantia propria. It had the appearance of a snow-storm when looked at with focal illumination, and consisted of grayish-white round dots under the slit-lamp. Stereographs and a colored drawing illustrate this unusual corneal condition. REPORT OF CASE J. H., a Russian Jew, aged 38, first presented himself for examination on March 10, 1930, at the Eye Clinic of the Union Health Center. He complained of a diminution of vision in the right eye and lacrimation of both eyes while at work. He stated that he had good vision in both eyes until six years before, when one of his co-workers playing a trick on him forced some paint or shellac into his right eye. The eye became red and painful, and

A RECIPIENT OF MANY BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS

The case to be presented is of interest because the life of the patient has been sustained by blood transfusions since September, 1927, and also because it lends itself for study with regard to certain important serologic problems related to blood transfusions. REPORT OF CASE History. —A. S., a white man, aged 67, a Russian Jew, a tailor, was admitted to the Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn in the medical service of Dr. S. R. Blatteis, May 22, 1925, because of pain in the right upper quadrant and a rash on the skin of his chest and abdomen. For the past three weeks he had been treated by a physician at home for intercostal neuralgia and asthma. Five days before admission he had had a temperature of 104 F. and had vomited. On the day before admission he became irrational, and the high temperature persisted. On the night prior to admission

NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE, SECTION OF NEUROLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY

A Case of Oxycephaly. Dr. Samuel Atkin. A Russian Jew, aged 36, came to the Vanderbilt Clinic complaining of : defec¬ tive vision since childhood, which had been rapidly failing since the summer of 1928 ; prominence of both eyes all his life ; increasing left-sided deafness for three years ; slight right-sided deafness for one year ; insomnia for two years ; frequent urination for one year and headaches over the right parietal region for ten years. The peculiar shape of his head was first noticed after a fall, at the age of 6 months, which was not followed by unconsciousness. The heads of the other members of the family were normal in shape. Physical Examination.—The patient was well developed and of medium height. His head was domelike with a high, receding and flattened forehead, with a normally prominent glabella and brow ridges. The face was flat and asymmetrical, the right side being more developed than the left. The nose was prominent. The occiput was vertical and flattened with a small external occipital protuberance. Head measurements were : cephalic length, 18.4 cm. ; cephalic breadth, 15 cm. ; cephalic index, 82 (mesocephalic head); head height, 13 cm.; length-height index, 70. The mentality was normal. Except for a slight enlargement of the isthmus of the thyroid the general physical examination gave negative results. Neurologic examination gave negative results, except for a fine, rapid tremor of the fingers and partial left nerve deafness. Ophthalmologic Examination.—There was bilateral optic atrophy. With correc¬ tion, the vision in the right eye was 12/200 ; in the left 15/200. The visual fields

FRAGILITAS OSSIUM AND DEAFNESS

We report here four cases of blue sclerotics, brittle bones and deafness; three illustrate the symptoms and signs of the disease and one the familial transmission. The cases are characterized by blue sclerotics, early and continued occurrence of fracture, because of the fragile type of the bones, and sometimes the development in early youth of progressive deafness. The disease is hereditary and a patient may have one, two or all symptoms. Children afflicted with the blue sclerotics alone usually die in infancy. When the blue sclerotics are first manifest in adolescence they are associated with brittle bones, and later deafness may supervene. HISTORY Stobie,1in reviewing the literature, noted only twenty-seven cases or family groups: twenty-four from England and Germany and three from this country. Conlon2reported six cases in one family from Boston, Ostheimer3one case in a child of Russian Jew parentage from Philadelphia, and Herrman4one case

A Study of a Lipomyxosarcoma with Comments Upon the Origin of the Fat Cell

Neoplasms of mesenchymal origin are frequently the cause of much controversy owing to a lack of differentiation into tissue which would permit their being placed in a definite organoid category. The term “liposarcoma” has been used to denote malignant change in the connective tissue of a lipoma, itself one of the most benign of tumors, and also to accent the fact that the growing fat cells have invaded the surrounding tissues or metastasized. A tumor which presents the accepted criteria of malignancy, derived from fat cells which are atypical in size, shape, and staining characteristics, with many mitotic figures and invasion of septa and capsule, is of the greatest rarity, and a study of such a growth may throw light upon the origin of the fat cell, regarding which there is much conflicting opinion. The writer has lately had the opportunity to examine a tumor of that type, removed from a patient in the Surgical Out-Door Department of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, and with the kind permission of Dr. Harvey Cushing a brief summary of the case is given. The patient, a Russian Jew, came to the hospital on November 18, 1920, complaining of a growth in his right thigh. His past history is unimportant except in so far as it concerns the tumor. In 1917 he noticed a firm swelling the size of a walnut beneath the skin on the mesial surface of the right thigh. It caused no pain. A few months later it was noticeably larger, and massage was instituted for a short time. It continued to grow slowly and became a little painful, particularly in cold weather. He was, however, able to work in his store, and he walked into the hospital.

The War and the Russian Jew

Essay| November 01 1916 The War and the Russian Jew Maxim Gorky Maxim Gorky Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1916) 5 (2): 275–276. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1916.5.2.275 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Maxim Gorky; The War and the Russian Jew. Current History 1 November 1916; 5 (2): 275–276. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1916.5.2.275 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentCurrent History Search This content is only available via PDF. © 1916 by The Regents of the University of California1916 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

THE NEW IMMIGRATION AS IT AFFECTS ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY

A larger number of severe rachitis deformities of the legs have been rapidly corrected by bloodless osteoclasis in Chicago than in any half dozen other cities in the world. The records of the Chicago free orthopedic hospitals and dispensaries show that the new immigrant gives them eight times their normal ratio of rachitic deformities, four times their normal ratio of tuberculous deformities. Chicago is perhaps the only city in the world having winters of ice and snow that harbors twenty thousand new emigrants from tropical or semitropical countries every year, and very bad rachitic deformities are almost peculiar to the children of recent immigrants from hot to cold climates. The people from Northern Europe huddle closely. Their children double our tuberculous joint deformities. The german and Russian Jew girls are especially prone to scoliosis. Dr. Peter Roberts, in his book 1 presents a map of the United States, with a line drawn from Atlantic City to Cairo, Ill., and thence to the northwest