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Title: United States Naval Medical Bulletin Vol. 20, Nos. 1-6, 1924
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Date: 1924-01
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Table of Contents

 Number 1

 PREFACE -------------------------------- - - ------ ------- V

NOTICE TO SERVICE CONTRIBUTORS____________________________ VI

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

Climatic Bubo.

By Commander C. S. Butler, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy______ 1

NOTES ON 350 APPENDECTOMIES.

By Lieut. Commander Lucius W. Johnson, Medical Corps, U. S .. Navy------------------------
-- 7

CLINICAL TRIAL OF THE ELLIS TEST FOR TUBERCULOSIS.

By Lieut. D. Ferguson, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy____________ 17

CANCER IN ST. CROIX, VIRGIN ISLANDS.

By Lieut. C. B. Van Gaasbeek, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy______ 31

SUGAR IN URINE.

Lieut. Commander C. W. 0. Bunker, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy, and
Pharmacist's Mate R. L. Thrasher, first class, U. S. Navy------------------
--------------- -------------------- 35

CLINICAL NOTES :

ENDOTHELIOMA.

By Lieut. L. H. Williams, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy__________ 39

GLANDERS IN MAN.

By Lieut. L. H. Williams and Lieut. R. C. Satterlee, Medical Corps, U.
S. Navy__________________ 41

ACUTE APPENDICITIS WITHIN A HERNIA SAC.

By Lieut. C. B. Van Gaasbeek, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy______ 43

CHANCRE OF THE PALMAR SURFACE OF THE HAND.

By Lieut. (J. G.) J. E. Root, jr., Medical Corps, U. S. Navy____ 44

RECURRENT DIFFUSE SCLERODERMA, A CASE OF.

By Lieut. C. W. Lane, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy_____________ 45

ACUTE YELLOW ATROPHY OF LIVER, A CASE OF.

By Lieut. G. L. McClintock, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy________ 49

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

Meeting of the Association of Military Surgeons.-Protection of capital
ships against poison gas.-Thomas Wakley and the Lancet.- Diathermy in
pneumonia.-Prophylactic injection of normal serum against measles.-Lamblial
dysentery treated with carbon tetrachloride.-Endocrine survey____________ 53

NAVY NURSE CORPS--------------------------------------------- 75

INSTRUCTIONS TO MEDICAL OFFICERS:

Shortage in petty-officer ratings in Hospital Corps.-Haemostatic forceps
and surgical needles carried in stock at the medical supply depot-Form N. M. S.
F. (revised) .-Policy of U. S. Employees' Compensation Commission regarding
employees suffering from occupational diseases; now considered compensable and
entitled to treatment.-Hospital accounting.-Examination report, Hospital Corps,
U.S. Navy; Form N. M. S. H. C. 1.-Analysis of the naval hospital ration for
1923 (continental hospitals only).-Reprints of the bureau's circular letters
for office files.-Additional data required on the Form F card in all cases of
injury.-Health records retained in files.-Wampoles hypno-bromic
compound.-Wampoles hypno-bromic compound, analysis requested_____________________
81

BOOK NOTICES---------------------------------------------------- 103

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, STATISTICS:

PNEUMONIA, BRONCHITIS, AND TONSILLITIS SEASON. HOUSING, VENTILATION,
AND CONTACT.

By Lieut. Commander J. R. Phelps, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy__ 107

Mass immunity to diseases.-Human intestinal parasites in
Guam.Prevention of venereal disease in England.-Vital statistics_______ 127

 

Number 2

 

PREFACE--------- - - - - --- --- - -- - ---- - -- - -- - ---- --------
---- - - -- -v

NOTICE TO SERVICE CONTRIBUTORS --- -- -- -- -- - - ------ - -- - vi

SPECIAL ARTICLE :

DETECTION OF THE PSYCHOPATH AND CLASSIFICATION OF NAVAL RECRUITS

IN ACCORDANCE WITH THEIR INTELLIGENCE.

By Lieut. A. W. Stearns, Medical Corps, United States Navy _ 149

INSULIN TREATMENT OF DIABETES MELLITUS.

By Lieut. Commander W. D. Owens, Medical Corps, United States Navy __________________
_ 170

NOVOCAINE ANESTHESIA.

By Lieut. Commander G. F. Cottle, Medical Corps, United States Navy
________________ 184

OBSERVATIONS CONCERNING YAWS IN HAITI.

By Lieut. P. W. Wilson, Medical Corps, United States Navy _ _ 190

RELATION OF THE CLINICAL LABORATORY TO THE MODERN HOSPITAL.

By Lieut. H. S. Sumerlin, Medical Corps, United States Navy _ 196

GAS MASK FOR HEAD AND CHEST INJURY CASES.

By Lieut. F. F. Lane, Medical Corps, United States Navy_____ 200

CLINICAL NOTES:

IMPROVED TECHNIC IN SPINAL PUNCTURE.

By Lieut. Commander T. W. Raison, Medical Corps, United States Navy____________
205

TRAUMATIC HEMATOMA OF SPERMATIC CORD.

By Lieut. L. H. Williams, Medical Corps, United States Navy__ 206

CYSTOSCOPY AND REPORT OF THREE UNUSUAL CASES.

By Lieut. L. B. Marshall, Medical Corps, United States Navy__ 207

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

Value of psychometric tests in the Navy-Need of physiotherapy – Two physicians
of Tortola-The all-purpose canister gas mask
- Etiology of gout-Bulletin of the National Board of Medical Examiner

·-Practical objectives in health work-Alcohol taxation and alcoholism
in Denmark-Revision of the pharmacopaeia-Phlebotomy in the monasteries-New
method of treating syphilis-Operating-room lighting_____ ______ ____ ____ __
___ ____ __ ___ __ ___ ____ 213

NURSE CORPS:

Nursing in the Philippine Islands-Cooperation with all departments_ 231

BOOK NOTICES __ _ 235

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, STATISTICS:

ERADICATION OF VERMIN ON BOARD SHIP_______________________ 247

SPPLEMENTARY REPORT: REVIEW OF LITERATURE RELATING TO PROPHYLAXIS OF
MEASLES.

By Dr. T. W. Kemmerer, United States Public Health Service__ 268

SWIMMING POOLS IN DETROIT---EPIDEMIOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS__ 271

ADOPTION OF NEW HOUSING ORDINANCE BY THE CITY OF SAN DIEGO, CALIF_274

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT ACTIVITIES AT NAVAL TRAINING STATIONS__ 275

 

Number 3

 

PREFACE ------------------------ v

NOTICE TO SERVICE CONTRIBUTORS- VI

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

AVIATION ACCIDENTS AND METHODS OF PREVENTION.

By Lieut. J. F. Neuberger, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy__________ 285

NOTES AND COMMENTS :

Aviation accidents.-Aeroplane accidents from the British viewpoint.-
The estimation of physical efficiency.-The air ambulance in war.---Gas warfare
in the air.-Ophthalmology in its relation to

aviation.-Notes on aviation medicine in France.-Fellowship in the American
College of Surgeons.- Vaccination against smallpox -The instruction of hospital
corpsmen__ 331

NAVY NURSE CORPS:

NOTES ON A COURSE FOR INSTRUCTORS OF NURSING-- 363

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, STATISTICS:

REMARKS ON THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF SMALLPOX AND THE PREVENTIVE VALUE OF
VACCINATION WITH COWPOX VIRUS.- MEDICAL OFFICER RECOMMENDS ADOPTION OF A
REGISTER FOR COWPOX VACCINATIONS.- REPORT OF A CASE OF CEREBROSPINAL FEVER AT
THE UNITED STATES NAVAL TRAINING STATION, NEWPORT, R. I.-MEDICAL BULLETIN OF THE
DESTROYER SQUADRONS OF THE BATTLE FLEET.-PROPHYLAXIS OF VENEREAL
DISEASE.-BACILLARY DYSENTERY IN GUAM.-PORTABLE

CANVAS SACK STEAM DISINFECTORS AVAILABLE ___________ 395

 

Number 4

 

PREFACE - --- ------ - - --- --- --------- - --- V

NOTICE TO SERVICE CONTRIBUTORS__ _________ VI 1

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPH IN PROGNOSIS VALUE OF.

By Lieut. Commander W. a. Bloedorn and Lieut. L . J. Roberts, Medical
Corps, United States Navy____ 423

ETHYLENE FOR GENERAL ANESTHESIA, USE OF.

By Commander C. W. Moots,
Medical Corps, United States Naval Reserve Force _ -----.- - - --------
------------- - - - ----------- 429

HYDRONEPHROSIS.

By Lieut. Commander R Cuthbertson, Medical Corps, United States Navy
------------ 431

UNSUSPECTED SYPHILIS.

By Lieut. Commander W. H. Connor, Medical Corps, United States
Navy_______ 439

RISE OF LOCAL ANESTHESIA.

By Dr. Charles A. Ingraham ___________ ____________ ___________ 445

CLINICAL NOTES:

SARCOMA.

By Lieut. R. M. Choisser, Medical Corps, United States Navy 451

AVULSION OF SCROTUM, LEFT TESTICAL AND SHEATH OF PENIS.

By Lieut. Commander G. F. Cottle, Medical Corps, United States Navy
-------------------------------- 457

HYDATIDIFORM MOLE, CASE OF.

By Lieut. Commander C. C. Kress and Lieut. H. C. Bishop, jr., Medical
Corps, United States Navy____ 460

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

Mental tests for recruits-Fish poisons-An eighteenth century country
practice-medical expedition to the South Seas-How to use a refrigerator-
Anaphylactic reaction from typhoid prophylaxis ------------- 463

NAVY NURSE CORPS:

Relation of the dietetic department to the medical service of a 

hospital_____________________________________________ 477

BOOK NOTICES -------------------------------- 483

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE. STATISTICS:

The prevention and control of cerebrospinal fever in the British Army as
reviewed in the official history of the war ____________ 493

Comments relating to health conditions, from the annual report of the
commander of the United States naval detachment in Turkish waters--Toxic effect
of hydrogen sulphide-Eradication of ants from ships of the United Fruit
Co.-Physical examination of food handlers in New York City- Venereal diseases
and prophylaxis in the United States Asiatic Fleet- Typhoid fever report-
Dysentery and the tendency to report ill-defined cases under a dysentery title
- Remarks relating- to the use of nomenclature titles____ _____ 515

 

Number 5

 

PREFACE -- ------- ------------------------------------------------- v

NOTICE TO SERVICE CONTRIBUTORS __________________________ _ vi

SPECIAL ARTICLES : 

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE MARINE CORPS, EAST COAST EXPEDITIONARY FORCE,
DURING THE FALL MANEUVERS OF 1923, AN ACCOUNTOF

By Lieut. Commander W. Chambers, Medical Corps, U. S. N.____ 531

PYELOGRAPHY.

By Commander W. S. Pugh, Medical Corps, U.S. N. (ret.)______ 559

HYDRONEPHROSIS.

By Lieut. (J. G.) R B. Engle. Medical Corps. U. S. N. 567

BICHLORIDE OF MERCURY POISONING WITH CALCIUM SULPHIDE AS A CHEMICAL
ANTIDOTE – A PRELIMINARY REPORT OF THE TREATMENT OF.

By Lieut. J. M. McCants, Medical Corps, U. S. N. _______________ 572

CONSTRUCTION OF VULCANITE PARTIAL DENTURES.

By Lieut. L. M. Desmond, Dental Corps, U. S. N.---------------- 578

CLINICAL NOTES:

CHRONIC DUODENAL ULCER.

By Lieut. (J. G.) O. A. Smith, Medical Corps, U. S. N. __________ 581

MALIGNANT ENDOCARDITIS FOLLOWING FRACTURE OF THE RIBS, A CARE REPORT.

By Lieut. (J. G.) B. M. Summers, Medical Corps. U. S. N. ______ 586

INCONTINENCE OF URINE.

By Lieut. (J. G) E. M. Harris, jr., Medical Corps, U. S. N. ______ 591

REPORT OF A DEATH OCCURING DURING TREATMENT FOR LEPROSY WITH
CHAULMOOGRA OIL DERIVATIVES.

By Lieut. F. L. McDaniel, Medical Corps, U. S. N. ______________ 594

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

German hospital ship during the ·world War – Misconduct ruling__ 597

NAVY NURSE CORPS:

Notes on dietetics taken at Miss Farmer's School of Cookery, Boston, Mass.
----------------- 605

INSTRUCTIONS ISSUED BY THE BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY:

Patients suffering with tuberculosis or neuropsychiatric diseases and conditions
who are veterans of the Spanish-American War, Boxer Rebellion, and the
Philippine lnsurrection, now under treatment but who are not beneficiaries of
the Veterans' Bureau as veterans of the World War, and who are not at present
members of the regular military and naval establishments--Hospital Corps
Handbook. U.S. Navy, 1923, issue of-Adoption of revised Nomenclature of Diseases
and Injuries, Medical Department. U.S. Navy-Classified expenditures and per
diem cost in naval hospitals (continental), during the quarter ending September
30, 1923--Paragraphs 1280 and 1281, Naval Courts and Boards,
1923-Epidemiological study of influenza, the common cold and other respiratory
disorders, now being carried on by the U. S. Public Health Service, request for
cooperation by medical officers of the Navy-Influenza, the common cold, and
other respiratory disorders - Schedule of wages for civilian employees,
effective .January 1. 1924 -Laboratory courses for nurses of the U.S. Navy -
Enlistment of men not physically qualified - Administration of triple antityphoid
vaccine-Classified expenditures and per item cost in naval hospitals
(continental) during October, 1923 - Form F cards in cases of patients taken up
as from change of diagnosis - Form “ X " - Abstract of enlistments- Addition
of diagnostic title number 1973, “Urticaria," to

Navy Nomenclature of Diseases and Injuries-Care in handling
concentrated spirit of nitrous ether- Equalization
bill - Modification of present allotment system-Instrument, plastic filling.
Black’s, Nos. 1 to 7, addition to Supply Table, Part II – Assignment of light
duty to hospital patients- Form N. M. S. H. C. S.

forwarding of, in the case of hospital corpsmen whose records have been
closed fo1· desertion and convicted of absence without leave, or absence over
leave, 01· restored to duty-American Red Cross-Disciplinary regulations
referring to beneficiaries of the U. S. Veterans' Bureau in naval hospitals--Complement
fixation tests for syphilis-Transportation of Insane patients-Closer relation
between medical officers on recruiting duty and the Bureau of Medicine and
Surgery-Memorandum for medical officers on recruiting duty-. Applicants for
appointment in the Navy Nurse Corp, physical examination of--Change in the
Manual of the Medical Department - --- --------------- - ----- -------- ----- -
- - -- __ 617

BOOK NOTICES __ --------- - --- --- - ------ --- ---- ----- --- - -----
- - 653

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE STATISTICS:

Resuscitation apparatus - Follow-up treatment of syphilis- Accident statistics
injuries and poisonings-Methods used in the prevention and control of
communicable diseases at the naval training station, Hampton Roads, Va.-
Venereal disease experience of the U.S. S. Detroit during her
"shakedown" cruise—Typhoid fever report-Eradication of vermin : note
from the Marine Barracks, Washington, D. C.- Food poisoning- Improved sanitary quality
of foods now marketed compared with conditions ten years ago, as observed in
Detroit-Physiological effects of high temperatures and high relative
humidity-Supplementary report on tentative bacteriological standards for
swimming pools in Detroit-Correct reporting of cases remaining at the end of
the calendar year 1923 ---------------------- 659

 

Number 6

 

PREFACE ________ v

NOTICE TO SERYICE CONTRIBUTORS ----------------------------- vi

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

DIAGNOSIS OF EARLY PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS

By Lieut. W. L. Rathbun, Medical Corps, U. S. Naval Reserve Force
____________ 685

PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS, EARLY DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF.

By Lieut. Commander J. B. Pollard, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy_ 691

EXTENSIVE SUPERFICIAL BURNS.

By Lieut. Commander G. W. Shepard, ledical Corps, U. S. Navy_ 697

SULPHARSPHENAMINE, A REPORT ON ITS USE AT THE MAYO CLINIC, ROCHESTER.
MINN.

By Lieut. Commander R. Hayden, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy.__ _ 702

LEPROSY IN THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.

By Lieut. J. M. McCants, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy ________ _ 705

CLINICAL NOTES:

KONDOLEON OPERATION AND FILARIASIS.

By Lieut. Commander H. M. Stenhouse. Medical Corps, U. S. Navy
____________ 715

MAXILLARY SINUSITIS OF DENTAL ORIGIN.

By Lieut. E. B. Howell, Dental Corps, U. S. Navy_____________ 716

REPORT OF A CASE OF LARGE "SOLITARY" TUBERCULOUS ABSCESS OF LIVER.

By Lieut. L. F. Robinson. Medical Corps, U. S. Naval Reserve Force-------------------------------
719

ADVANCED TUBERCULOSIS UNSUCCESSFULLY TREATED BY ARTIFICIAL PNEUMOTHORAX,
COMPLICATED BY PYO-PNEUMOTHORAX AND TREATMENT BY THORACOPLASTY, A CASE OF.

By Lieut. (Junior Grade) E. W. Gutzmer, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy
---------------------------------- 721

NOTES AND COMMENTS :

A correction.-Value and limitations of the Rontgen ray in the diagnosis
of pulmonary affections. - Sulpharsphenamine on board ship.-A note on
interpretation of dental radiographs __________ - 727

NAVY NURSE CORPS:

MY FIRST DUTY ABOARD SHIP. THE U. S. S.
"RELIEF"-------------- 739

BOOK NOTICES--------------------------------- 751

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, STATISTICS:

STUDIES OF SUBMARINE VENTILATION IN TROPICAL WATERS.

By Lieut. Commander R. F. Jones and Lieut. G. H. Mankin, Medical Corps,
U. S. Navy ----------- 759

STUDIES BY THE UNIITED STATES PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE REGARDING CHEMICAL
AND PHYSIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF INDUSTRIAL FATIGUE__ 795

EPIDEMIOLOGICAL REPORT OF AN OUTBREAK OF BACILLARY DYSENTERY AT THE MARINE BARRACKS,
RIFLE RANGE, SANTO DOMINGO CITY, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC.

By Lieut. H. B. LaFavre, medical Corps, U. S. Navy____________ 797

Bacillary dysentery among Marine Corps and Nay personnel serving with
the gendarmerie of Haiti.- Bacillary dysentery in Guam. Needless noise a
detriment to health and efficiency.-Naval training stations, notes
from.-Venereal disease conditions from the U. S. S. "Pittsburgh,"
report on.-Fatal accident attributed to rusty surface of a revolving
shaft-Admissions for injuries and poisonings,

January and February, 1924------------------------- 800

INDEX …. I

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