Treatment Of Acute Infections Research Articles

The Treatment of Acute and Chronic Inflammatory Conditions by Fractional Doses of X-Ray

The purpose of this paper is to suggest that in the x-ray treatment of acute infections considerably less radiation may be effective than is generally supposed; that small fractional doses daily or twice daily may be more effective than a single larger dose, and that exacerbations which not infrequently do occur following larger doses may be avoided by dividing the initial dose. The use of x-radiation in the treatment of infections has been known and advocated for at least ten years. A number of papers by well-known authorities have appeared on the subject. The rationale of treatment and the mode of action of the x-rays have been fairly well established and need not be repeated in detail here. We may state briefly that following x-ray treatment there is a systemic reaction tending to increase the bacteriolytic and bacteriophagic powers of the circulating blood (1). This reaction may be either in the nature of a general immunization or, more probably, a setting free of the products of the destruction of le...

Sulfanilamide in the Treatment of Acute Infections of the Central Nervous System

Sulfanilamide in the Treatment of Acute Infections of the Central Nervous System

PREOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT OF ACUTE STREPTOCOCCIC MASTOIDITIS

When Ambroise Pare said that he dressed the wounds but God healed them, he was enunciating in the metaphysical manner of his age a physiologic fact of profound importance. Without the presence in the body of those defensive and reparative mechanisms which come into action as the result of injury, whether mechanical or bacterial, the organism could not survive, but Pare alone of his age appreciated and acknowledged this fact. Four hundred years later we of the medical profession are scarcely less ignorant of what immunity actually is. Immune bodies, opsonins and the like, are, when all is said and done, only postulates to explain a pathologic theory, not proved facts, however much we may delude ourselves. Yet without this defense mechanism, whatever it may be, all our therapeutic skill and surgical technic would be unavailing. In the treatment of acute infections in particular we are dependent for success on

The Addis sediment count in children: A means of determining the presence of a kidney lesion

<h2>Summary</h2> A method of differentially staining white blood and epithelial cells from red blood cells in urinary sediment in a counting chamber is described. This method has increased the accuracy of our qualitative urine sediment counts. The urine sediment counts on sixteen normal children, sixteen children with acute infections, and six children with Bright's disease have been presented. The occurrence of a higher count of casts in the twelve-hour urine of normal children than that in normal adult males is mentioned. No significant increase in the urinary sediment was observed in the children with acute infections. In the discussion we have called attention to the necessity of distinguishing between the effects of infection per se and dehydration. The bearing of the reported data on the treatment of acute infections is discussed.

EFFECTS OF NONSPECIFIC PROTEIN THERAPY IN SYPHILIS

Nonspecific therapy has been successfully applied in many fields of medicine, and the list of diseases which are favorably influenced by this type of treatment constantly increases. It has proved of value in the treatment of acute infections, such as typhoid fever, anthrax, diphtheria, erysipelas, pneumonia, scarlet fever, smallpox, typhus fever and septicemia; in arthritis; in gonorrhea and its complications; in various dermatologic conditions including psoriasis, exfoliative dermatitis, furunculosis, eczema, etc.; in diseases of the eye, such as uveitis, panophthalmitis, iritis, pneumococcic corneal ulcers and keratitis; and in such miscellaneous conditions as angioneurotic edema, secondary anemia and disorders of the blood, such as purpura. In recent years attention has been called to the beneficial effects following protein therapy in general paralysis and tabes, and Kryle 1 in 1917, reported favorably on the effect of combined protein and the usual antisyphilitic medication in reducing persistently positive Wassermann reactions to negatives. Despite

TREATMENT OF ACUTE INFECTIONS OF THE JOINT BY LAVAGE AND DIRECT MEDICATION

Since the publication of a paper 1 in 1915 in which a new method for the treatment of acute infections of joints, particularly of the knee joint, was described, I have been interested in the further development of the apparatus devised for this purpose and in the collection o f further clinical data as to the efficiency of the method. The rather crude machine described in my first article answered the purpose well, but there were a number of mechanical defects in it, and these made i t somewhat awkward. These defects have been entirely overcome, and an apparatus that is simple and efficient has now been devised, so that the problem of thorough irrigation and cleansing of a joint cavity is solved. As I stated in my former article, any attempt to apply an antiseptic to the lining membrane of a joint, with the hope that this substance would

A Successful Treatment for Acute Infections of the Airways

A Successful Treatment for Acute Infections of the Airways