MUNICiPAL BUILD BRITISH NEW YORK CIT MEDICAL JOURNAL THE JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION Edited by NORMAN GERALD HORNER, M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.C.S. Assisted by HUGH CLEGG, M.B., F.R.C.P. VOLUME II 1945 ILILY TO DECEMBER Published at the Office of the British Medical £ ssociatior, Tavistock Square, London, W.C.1, and Printed by Fisher, Knight & Co., L-Ld., Gainsborough Press, St. Albans INDEX 1TO VOLUlME II FOR 1945 READERS in search of a particular subject will find it useful to bear in mind that the references are in several cases distributed under two or more separate headings-for example, Brain and Cerebral; Heart and Cardiac; Liver and Hepatic; Renal and Kidney; Cancer and Carcinoma; Child and Infant; Goitre and Thyroid. Subjects dealt with under various main headings in the JOURNAL have been set out in alphabetical order under their respective headings-for example, " Annotations," " Correspondence," " Leading Articles," " Obituary," " Reviews," etc. Original Articles are indicated by the letter (0). Agranulocytosis after sulphonamide sensitization: ANAESTHESIA (continued): A penicillin therapy: death from Ps. pyocyanea Gas cylinders, identification of, 233 -septicaemia (J. D. Cameron and J. R. Edge), General, and the temperature of inhaled gases ABBOTT, J. M. (and others): Results of routine 688 (0) (Arthur Mills and Margaret Soutar). 646 (0) investigation for Rh factor at the N.W. London AHRENFELDT, R. H.: Medical aspects of prisons, History of (book review), 571 depot, 273 (0); correspondence, 400 546 "' Hyperbaric " and " hypobaric," 368, 450 Abdomen: Penetrating wound of, 74-Three cases AiRD, Ian: Acute non-specific mesenteric lymph- Inhalation, forthcoming book on, 356 of closed intra-abdominal injury (H. N. G. adenitis, 680 (0); correspondence, 818, 861 Local, in dentistry (book review), 322 Hudson), 419 (0)-Five cases of unusual AITKEN, C. J. Hill: Women in labour, 272 Obstruction, threatened, of air passage, 512 syndrome consisting of intense paroxysmal ALCOCK, Helen Bower: Spinal analgesia in operative Pentothal, continuous, a simple apparatus for (H. abdominal pain and high fever (S. Siegal), 437- obstetriqs, 818 Marcus Bird), 289 ; correspondence, 511 Recurrent paroxysmal pain (annotation), 889 Alcohol: " Under the influence," 234, 333- Stovaine, 474, 545 ABEL, Lawrence: Management of the permanent Alcoholism, 633 Trichlorethylene, 440-In midwifery, 99, 331-In colostomy, 229 ALDRED-BROWN, G. R. P.: Mono-articular osteo- general practice, 403-Acute yellow necrosis of ABERCROMBIE, Michael (and M. L. JOHNSON): arthritis of hip, 28 liver following (K. N. Herdman). 689 (0) Premedical zoology, 262 (0); correspondence, Aldridge, Capt. Bernard Henry Mooring, previously correspondence, 784, 820 334, 404-New Biology, 533 reported prisoner of war, now believed lost in Tubing, anaesthetic, support for (O. R. Tisdall), R. G.: Galvanic stimulation of denervated Japanese transport, 906 925 muscle, 622, 898 Alford, Cyril Wolrige, obituary notice of. 787 Vomiting, post-operative, in relation to anaesthetic ABERCROMBY, B. M. L.: Foreign bodies in bronchi ALLAN, Alastair: An improved artificial pneumo- time (J. Morland Smith), 217 (0) and oesophagus in children, 647 (0) thorax needle, 607; correspondence, 742, 783. Abortion. See Obstetrics 821, 862, 899 ANALGESIA: ABRAHAMS, Sir Adolphe: Press publicity, 444- ALLEN, Clifford: Diet in morphine addiction, 705 Caudal, apparatus for, 36 Treatment of duodenal ulcer, 473-Training of - F. R. W. K.: Constriction ring. 414- Midwives: Training of, in gas-and-air analgesia, clinical teachers, 663 Abdominal nerve block, 547-" The frozen 32-Analgesia by, 751 Abrami. Pierre, death of, 200 pelvis," 794 Nupercaine, heavy spinal, in operative obstetrics ABRAMS, Mark: The Population of Great Britain: with report on 394 cases (Louis Resnick), 722 Current Trends and Future Problems, 572 ALLERGY: (0); correspondence, 818, 898, 939 Abscesses, haemolytic streptococcal peritonsillar, Alkaloids, 35 Spinal: Persistent pain after, 307-Meningitis after treated with penicillin, 213 Book review, 321 (Michael Kremer), 309 (0); correspondence, Absorbers, circle, valve disk for (J. Clutton-Brock), Disease, allergic, in a family, 753 402, 511-Sixth-nerve paralysis after (W. A. 572 Egg-prepared vaccines (R. G. Park). 570 Fairclough), 801 (0); correspondence, 897 Academy of Medicine, French: Centenary records, Fish in an asthmatic, 108 See also Anaesthesia 228 Hay-fever: Plants (book review)-Treatment and New York. of Medicine: The March of desensitization, 73 Anamnestic reaction, 35 Medicine, 288 "Leucopenic index," 793 Anastomosis. See Surgery Moulds in England (E. M. Fraenkel), 14 Anatomy: Nomenclature, 414, 520-Basic trasning ACADEMY, ROYAL, OF MEDICINE IN IRELAND: Quinine and mepacrine, hypersensitivity to (John in (book review), 497-Cahiers de Dessins Section of Pathology: Synergic action of penicillin Orr), 604 d'Anatomie (book notes), 572-The teaching of and sulphathiazole (J. W. Bigger), 621 Sulphonamide, 633 human anatomy, 740 Section of Surgery: Plastic surgery (A. B. Clery), Wound-healing, delayed, role of allergy in ANDERSON, A. B.: Therapeutic use of protein 780 (annotation), 927 hydrolysates, 815 See also Sensitivity -David Irving, obituary notice of, 238 Accidents: Effects of the rope in rock-climbing - Mary R.: The aim of medicine, 824 accidents, 705-Road accidents while " under the Allkins, W. J., death of, 102 - R. E.: Medical prisoners in Singapore, 660 influence," 870 Alphabetical pride, 484 - W. W.: Lead palsy, 107 Acetanilide, sulphaemoglobinaemia due to (S. Altitude, high, effects of, on man: Oliver-Sharpey Aneurysm, aortic: An unusual case of ruptured Lazarus), 565 (0) lectures (B. H. C. Matthews), 75 (0); leading (D. H. Irwin and E. Frankel), 426 Achalasia of cardia, case of (John L. D'Silva and article, 123 ; correspondence, 199. See also Stress - arterial, following injury to iliac vessels, report E. C. Turton), 461 Alurralde, Mariano, death of, 304 of 2 cases, with commentary on large transfusions Achard, Emile Charles, obituary notice of, 138 AMBROSE, Arthur J.: Ergot and abortion, 144 (H. Agar and others), 451 (0) Acid, phytic, and calcium deficiency (annotation), " Ambulance-chasers": A solicitor at fault, 371 traumatic: Anaesthesia and blood transfusion 610; correspondence, 746, 832 American medical practice (book review), 157 in 14 cases (I. Schalit), 921 (0) Acidaemia in gas gangrene, 449 Amino-acids of food (book review), 48 Angina, Ludwig's, 369, 440, 512, 622 (corrected, Acidity, gastric: Relation between gastric acidity Amoebiasis: Unconfirmed, treatment of, 27- 676) and the anterior-pituitary-like hormone content of Treatment of, 128-In Natal, 266 pectoris, testosterone in, 171 urine in pregnant women (Stanley Way), 182, (0) Amputations. See Surgery -- Vincent's, treated with penicillin (B. M. ACKMAN, F. Douglas (and Fraser B. GuRD): Schwartz and P. L. Shallenberger and others), Technique in Trauma. Planned Timing in the ANAEMIA: 382-41 cases treated by penicillin (H. E. Twining Treatment of Wounds, including Burns, 849 Colds: Anaemia in the child with frequent colds. and others), 718 Aclasis, diaphysial, inheritance of, 793 703 Aniline derivatives, sulphaemoglobinaemia due to Acne vulgaris, penicillin for, 73 Haemogloblin levels in the 4th year of the war (S. Lazarus), 565 (0) Acroparaesthesia " and so-called " neuritis" of (leading article on M.R.C. special report). 89 Annals of Science, publication restarted, 322 the hands and arms in women: their probable Haemolytic, acute, due to sulphonamide adminis- relation to brachial plexus pressure by normal first tration (F. B. Cockett), 884 Annotations: ribs (F. M. R. Walshe), 596 (0); correspondence, High-colour-index anaemia due to vitamin C Abdominal pain, recurrent paroxysmal, 889 701, 746, 820 deficiency (B. Gottlieb), 119 (0) Advertisements for permanent appointments, 327 Actinomycosis successfully treated with penicillin: Macrocytic: Tropical, neurological complications Aged, care of the, 162 report of 2 cases (A. J. C. Hamilton and H. J. R. in (D. W. Degazon), 461-Observations on Agglutinins, cold, 929 Kirkpatrick), 728 (0) oedema occurring during the course of (E. G. Allergy. role of, 'in delayed wound healing, 927 Acupuncture, 34, 144 Holmes), 561 (0); correspondence, 782 Anaemia, pernicious: And carcinoma of stomach, ADAM, James R.: Domiciliary midwifery and the - nutritional (leading article), 501 ; corre- 503-Subacute degeneration of brain in, 855 family doctor, 365 spondence, 550 (corrected, 586), 702 Ariboflavinosis, ocular signs of, 889 ADAMS, A. R. D. (and others): Tropical medicine, Pernicious: And carcinoma of stomach (annota- Barnardo centenary, 53 895 tion), 503; correspondence, 664, 741-Subacute Biotin, 655 Adder-bite, notes on, in England and Wales (C. W. degeneration of brain in (annotation), 855 Blood grouping, medico-legal applications of, 360 Walker), 13 (0); in the Highlands of Scotland, Syndrome resembling Ad(kson's disease, with Bread: Whose loaf? 853 35; correspondence, 172, 242 severe anaemia. steatorrIloea, and melanuria British Council's Medical Department, 90 ADDISON, G. M.: Training for released Service (S. Locket), 417 (0) Bronchitis and pneumonia in London infants, 466 doctors, 707 Burns of eye, grafting for, 190 Addison's disease: A syndrome resembling, with ANAESTHESIA: Caffeine: And peptic ulcer, 504-Action of, in severe anaemia, steatorrhoea, and melanuria (S. Abdominal nerve block, 547 fatigue, 773 Locket), 417 (0) Anaesthetic risks, 402, 511, 583, 623, 746, 897 Chemotherapy