Twentieth Century History of Findlay and Hancock County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens, Part 97

Author: Jacob Anthony Kimmell
Publication date: 1910
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American Practice of Surgery. A Complete System of the Science and Art of Surgery. By Representative Surgeons of the United States and Canada. Editors: JOSEPH D. BRYANT, M. D., LL. D .; ALFRED H. BUCK, M. D. Complete in eight re- umes, profusely illustrated. Vol. VI. (New York: William Wood & Co., 1909.)

The surgeons, who contribute articles to this volume, are: Art- strong, Elder and Shepherd, of Montreal; Balch, Cabot, Grafes and Mosher, of Boston; Carson and Mudd, of St. Louis; Blood- good, of Baltimore, and Turner, of Philadelphia. Unless one turas to the individual articles there is no means of quickly finding the respective authors, whose names might have readily been placed after the subject headings under "Contents." Bloodgood's paper on the "Surgical Diseases of the Jaws " is separated from other papers on the surgery of the face and throat by a number of papers on the surgery of the female and male genitals. These are minor defects, but in a well-arranged system they would not occur. The very completeness of this sytem leads to redundancy of material. The volume opens with a paper on Prosthesis in its Relation to Surgery of the Face, Mouth, Jaws and Nasal and Laryngeal Cavities, followed in sequence by chapters on Surgical Diseases and Wounds of the Nasal Cavities and Accessory Sinuses; Surgical Diseases and Wounds of the Mouth, Tongue, and Salivary Glands; Surgical Diseases and Wounds of the Neck; Surgical Dis- eases and Wounds of the Thyroid and Thymus; Surgery of the Thorax and Spinal Column; Surgical Diseases and Wounds of the Female Breast; Surgical Diseases and Wounds of the Externa! Genitals and Vagina of the Female; Surgical Diseases and Wounds of the Male Genital Organs; Chancroid; Gonorrheal Urethritis, and Surgical Diseases and Wounds of the Jaws. Thus these articles take up 900 pages and the volume is so heavy as to be unwieldy. There are but few references, which seems rather a defect in a classical work of this nature, but the question of mul-

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acusted one. Many of the drawings and lotographs are excellent, but the colored plates are not good. ne articles, on the whole, cover the ground well, and the surgeon need of this system will find it a useful book. This volume may said to well uphold the repute already gained by American and inadian surgeons, and while there is no paper of exceptional erit in this volume, the general average of excellence is high.

ydrotherapy. A Work on Hydrotherapy in General, Its Applica- tion to Special Affections, The Technic or Processes Employed and the Use of Waters Internally. By GUY HINSDALE, A. M., M. D., etc. Illustrated. Price, $3.50. (Philadelphia and Lon- don: W. B. Saunders Company, 1910.)

A few years ago the number of text-books on this subject was nited, but they are now constantly increasing in numbers, and ere is no longer any reason why the general practitioner should it have a clear idea of the uses and value of water applied both ternally and externally. The best part of most of these text- oks is the description of the technic in giving the different forms baths and sprays. The authors have a tendency, it seems to us, exaggerate the value of water in many affections, but it must be id that those who do not use hydrotherapy freely do not recog- ze its many values. This work is a smaller one than Kellogg's, id sufficient for the use of the ordinary practitioner. The chap- r on the use of baths in typhoid fever, where correct use of ater is so important, is, however, most unsatisfactory, it is far

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It is a pity to add to our medical terms such words as " Crouno- therapy " and "Crenology," which are really not needed, and the same figure with slightly different description is given on pages 73 and 245.

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Notes. (1) Intermittent Fever in Influenza Simulating larial Fever. (2) Grave Malarial Fever with few Parasites the Peripheral Circulation. Dangers of the Intravenous ection of Quinine. (Illustrated.)

y WILLIAM SYDNEY THAYER, M. D. . 101

paration of Antitoxin.

ly E. J. BANZHAF, Ph. D. 106

nical Value of the Determination of the Catalytic Activity the Blood.

ly M. C. WINTERNITZ, M. D. .

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a Pulmonale in Wisconsin.

ly HENRY HANSON, M. D.

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Platelets and Megalokaryocytes in Hodgkin's Disease. ustrated.)

y C. H. BUNTING, M. D. .

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Primary General Peritonitis with Isolation of the Bacillus Lactis Aerogenes in Pure Culture from the Peritoneal Exudate. (Illustrated.) By JOHN W. CHURCHMAN, M. D. 116

The Submucous Resection of the Nasal Septum, Technique and Results in the Writer's Practice. (Illustrated.) By SYLVAN ROSENHEIM, M. D. 121 .

The Growth of Embryonic Chick Tissues in Artificial Media, Agar and Bouillon.

By MARGARET REED LEWIS, M. D., and WARREN H. LEWIS, M. D.

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Proceedings of Societies.

The Johns Hopkins Medical Society

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Employment of Radium as an Aid to Surgery in the Treatment

of Cancer, Angioma and Keloid [DR. LOUIS WICKHAM].

Notes on New Books .

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NTERMITTENT FEVER IN INFLUENZA SIMULATING MALARIAL FEVER. RAVE MALARIAL FEVER WITH FEW PARASITES IN THE PERIPHERAL CIR- CULATION. DANGERS OF THE INTRAVENOUS INJECTION OF QUININE.

By WILLIAM SYDNEY THAYER, M. D., Associate Physician, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore.

r one who has observed much malarial fever is familiar e fact that well-marked paroxysms may occur with ence of very few parasites in the peripheral circulation. is is not uncommon in mild tertian infections. (b) more, it is observed at the onset of mild and even of less serious æstivo-autumnal fever, especially during od of the paroxysm. The cause of this is evident when we remember that the sporulation of the para- ich immediately precedes and accompanies the par- both tertian and æstivo-autumnal fever, occurs, espe- capillaries of certain of the internal organs, particu- the spleen and bone marrow. In most mild cases of tumnal fever, it is rather difficult to find sporulating in the peripheral circulation. (c) The same con- ks made before the Johns Hopkins Hospital Medical Oct. 17, 1909.

dition, i. e., well-marked fever with few or no parasites de- monstrable in the peripheral circulation, is seen in both tertian and æstivo-autumnal infections, but, especially in the latter, where quinine has been given in insufficient doses early in the attack.

In most patients, careful examination of blood reveals para- sites within the twenty hours succeeding the paroxysm, and, even in the absence of parasites, the diagnosis is usually sufficiently clear through the history of the case and the physi- cal appearances, in connection with the condition of the blood which shows usually (1) leucopenia, (2) pigment-bearing leu- cocytes, (3) a relative increase in the large mononuclear leu- cocytes.

Nevertheless, it is well known that there are occasional cases in which, without splenic puncture, a diagnosis can be reached only by the therapeutic test. These cases are not common and,

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of such examinations and to forget that grave and even per- nicious malaria may occur in an individual with so few para- sites in the peripheral circulation as to deceive even the skilled observer on repeated examinations.

On the other hand, however, 'tis very important to remember

that certain other infections may give rise to paroxysms whiz. intrinsically, and in the character of their periodicity, Er closely simulate malaria.

The paroxysms of streptococcus, pneumococcus and =- coccus septicemia are usually distinguishable by the irez- larity, often the great frequency of the paroxysms, and - short duration of the individual access. The paroxysme x- curring in tuberculosis may often suggest malaria, but i: usually readily distinguishable. In the experience of the writer, influenza is the malady which gives rise to those forz. of intermittent fever which most closely. simulate malara. paroxysms. Of the four cases of which we shall speak the evening, two are examples of influenza simulating maara. two are instances of grave malarial fever with a remarkal: paucity of parasites in the peripheral circulation.

CASE I .- Influenza-Tertian Paroxysms Simulating Malaria. T .: first chart, which has already been published in my "Lectures cz the Malarial Fevers," * is that of a woman, E. D., aged 29, who was a patient on Ward " G " of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. T. chart, as you will see, shows a febrile paroxysm beginning te tween 2 and 4 p. m., on the 28th of January and lasting 12 hours This was succeeded on the 30th by a similar paroxysm beginning about two hours later and lasting about the same length of time The patient came from a malarious district and we naturally sa pected a tertian infection. On the first of February, however. there was no rise of temperature and on the 2d and 3rd, sharp elevations occurred, one between 12 and 2 in the morning and the other between 8 and 10 on the following morning. These latter paroxysms, of course, would be sufficient, on examination of the chart alone, to render the diagnosis of malaria improbable.

Now, this patient complained of coryza and cough with a gree. ish purulent expectoration, and showed the signs of a generi' bronchitis. Examination of the blood revealed no malarial or ganisms, and a leucocytosis of 17,000. Influenza bacilli were c. tivated from the sputa and the patient recovered without relapse. and without the administration of quinine.

CASE II .- Influenza-Remittent and Intermittent Fever Simsis. ing Malaria. The second chart is that of a patient whom I saw it February, 1907, with Dr. Friedenwald. As you will see, there is s period of four days of irregular fever, followed by three quotidia: paroxysms, each beginning between 8 and 10 in the morning at. closely simulating paroxysms of a regularly intermittent malaria One might well have fancied that the case represented one of it- fection with mutiple groups of parasites which, under rest in bed had gradually given way until the effects of two strong groups te came clearly evident.

The patient, however, was a boy of about 17 who had been it for about three or four days before the beginning of the chart, complaining of coryza and cough with purulent expectoration and the general symptoms of influenza which was prevalent at the time. From the onset, he had been treated with quinine, gr. Lit (0.2 gm.) every four hours. Well-marked chills continued for nearly a week after the onset of treatment. The blood showed Do malarial parasites.

I saw the patient first on the 14th of February, at which time be showed a general bronchitis. Quinine was omitted and aspirin, ET. v. (0.325 gm.) every four hours ordered. Cultures from the spota showed B. influenza.

The point of special interest in this case would appear to be the sharpness of the paroxysms which were associated with definita

* Thayer, W. S .: Lectures on the Malarial Fevers, New York D. Appleton & Co., 1897.

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chills, and the regularity of their onset in the morning hours, as is common in malaria.

CASE III .- Intermittent Fever of the Type of Aestival Tertian. No Parasites Demonstrable in the Peripheral Circulation. Imme- diate Disappearance of Fever under Quinine. The third chart that I would show you presents a rather different appearance. As you will see, there is continued fever on the 19th and 20th of October, the temperature reaching a sub-normal point on the 21st. This is followed by sharp paroxysms on the 22d, 24th, and 26th, the paroxysms beginning in the early morning hours and lasting nearly 24 hours. The chart is typical of aestivo-autumnal tertian fever.

The patient was a medical student of 28. He had been in a malarious district and, two days before admission, had begun to complain of general malaise and on the day preceding admission, of fever. On the day of admission, the 19th of October, he had taken three doses of quinine, how much is not known. On en- trance, the temperature was 102.4º F. at 5 P. M., the pulse 80, respiration 24. There was nothing striking on physical examina- tion of the patient beyond a palpable spleen which extended 3 cm. below the costal margin. The examination of the blood was nega- tive; no parasites and no pigment were seen and the leucocytes were 6400 per cmm.

Oct. 20. The temperature remained elevated. In the afternoon, there was a chill and the temperature rose to 105.8º F .; leucocytes, 4640.

Oct. 21. The temperature fell gradually to 98º F. at noon.

Oct. 22. There was a sharp rise in temperature with a chill at about 6 p. m., the temperature reaching 106.7º F. This was fol- lowed by a rapid fall, and, on Oct. 23, the temperature was normal. , On Oct. 24, the temperature rose slightly in the early morning hours, a sharp paroxysm beginning at 8, with a chill at noon, during which the temperature rose to 105º F. During all these days, the blood was carefully and repeatedly examined in both fresh and stained specimens. Neither parasites nor pigment was to be found and the leucocytes diminished to between 3,000 and 4000 per cmm.

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Twentieth Century History of Findlay and Hancock County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens, Part 97

Author: Jacob Anthony Kimmell Publication date: 1910 Publisher: Number of Pages: 1189

Author: Jacob Anthony Kimmell
Publication date: 1910
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 1189