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Radiotherapy In The Management Of Oral Cancer, Ralph M. Scott

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

Radiotherapy and surgery, used singly or in combination, are the only curative approaches to the treatment of mouth cancer. Preoperative irradiation of advanced cancer is now being evaluated, and shows much promise. This may permit operation in previously inoperable cases, make less extensive operative procedures feasible in others, and possibly decrease the incidence of cancer spread during surgery. However, while surgery often can salvage radiation failures, the reverse is seldom true.

The Effect Of Γ-Guanidinobutyric Acid On The Clotting Time Of Normal Plasma And On The Euglobulin Lysis Time Of Fibrinolytically Active Plasma, Lyman M. Fisher, Phyllis S. Roberts, Warner E. Braxton

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

It has been established that ε-aminocaproic acid (EACA) inhibits the activation of human plasminogen (Ablondi et al., 1959; Alkjaersig, Fletcher, and Sherry, 1959). Because of this observation, this compound has been used extensively to inhibit the pathologically occurring fibrinolytic system in patients. Recently Roberts (1965) reported that another compound, γ-guanidinobutyric acid (GGBA), like EACA, inhibits the lysis of human blood clots. Furthermore, GGBA, unlike EACA, retards the formation of these clots. The present investigation was undertaken to determine whether GGBA inhibits clot formation in the one-stage prothrombin and in the partial thromboplastin time tests. In addition, the ability of GGBA …

The Challenge Of Pulmonary Emphysema, David V. Bates

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

I feel very privileged to be invited to be your Stoneburner Lecturer for this year. When I came to consider what I really wanted to say and what might interest people in widely different areas of medicine, there really was little choice. I perhaps can claim to be able to talk about emphysema from a rather broad standpoint than some other physicians. Not because I suffer from it, which is sometimes a good reason for talking about a disease, but because I have been trained both in England and in America, and the outlook on this disease has differed in …

Contributors To This Issue

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

List of contributors to this issue includes John D. Bower, Calvin M. Kunin, Francis D. Moore, Belding H. Scribner, Nellie Curry, and Marion Waller.

Ethics In New Medicine: Tissue Transplants, Francis D. Moore

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

Tissue transplantation, like other advances of the past, will react to the welfare of mankind if explored and exploited within the ethical bounds of science itself. Honesty and self-discipline must be held as values of the same importance as the very essence of all medical ethics: the welfare of the patient.

Recent Experience With Hemodialysis In Acute Renal Failure, Chronic Renal Disease With Reversible Features, And In Conjunction With Renal Homotransplants, John D. Bower

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

Hemodialysis is a safe acceptable method of treatment for drug intoxication, and acute renal failure. It is also useful in the management of patients with chronic renal disease either on a periodic basis or, intermittantly, for acute exacerbations superimposed on chronic renal insufficiency. The great majority of dialysis at MCV has been done in conjunction with the ongoing renal homotransplantation program. Here dialysis has proven to be an innocuous procedure and has contributed significantly to the success of this program.

Contributors To This Issue

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

List of contributors to this issue includes Phyllis Silver Roberts, Lyman McArthur Fisher, Warner E. Braxton, Fairfield Goodale, Jr., Elizabeth A. Hillman, Ralston Fillmore, Jack Denning Burke, Malcolm E. Turner, Charles H. Hockman, Ebbe Curtis Hoff, Walter J. Geeraets, Guy Wong, Du Pont Guerry, III, David V. Bates, Norman C. Staub, William Taliaferro Thompson, Jr., Edward S. Ray, and Sami I. Said.

Vibriosis In Sheep, Stanley M. Dennis

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

OVINE VIBRIOSIS or vibrionic abortion, a serious disease of breeding ewes, has been known for almost 50 years and has been reported from most of the important sheep breeding areas of the world.

It is capable of causing serious economic loss.

Mastitis : Prevention And Control. 3. Implementing The Mastitis Control Programme, F C. Wilkinson

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

FARMERS who have followed the first two articles in this series should by now have established the recommended milking routine and be familiar with it.

The Control Of Stock Medicines, J Shilkin

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

WHILST it is generally known that medicines sold for human use are the concern of the various health authorities throughout Australia and that many precautions are taken to ensure that these are both safe and efficient, it may not be so widely known that the sale of preparations for both internal and external use in stock is controlled for the same purposes by the veterinary authorities.

How To Care For Orphan Lambs, Stanley M. Dennis

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

WITH the current high price and shortage of sheep in W.A., farmers might consider the bother of artificially rearing orphan lambs more worthwhile than before.

Robinia : The False Acacia, Robert Dunlop Royce

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

ROBINIA, the false acacia, is a tree up to 60 feet high, and is native to the eastern United States.

There it develops a trunk 3 or 4 feet in diameter and produces a hard close grained and durable timber.

In America it is known as black locust or simply as locust.

Remarkable Success Of Bovine T.B. Eradication Campaign, J Shilkin

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

Less than 20 years ago Perth dairy herds had the highest T.B. incidence of any Australian capital city and half of the Kalgoorlie cattle had the disease.

Why this was so and how the eradication campaign has reduced the incidence of less than 0.3 per cent, in 128,000 cattle is discussed in this article.

Starvation In Newborn Lambs, Stanley M. Dennis

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

INVESTIGATIONS over the past three years have shown that most lamb deaths in Western Australia occurred within the first three days of life.

Sixty per cent, of these losses were due to starvation/mismothering.

Calfhood Diseases. 1. Gastro-Intestinal Diseases, M R. Gardiner

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

CALFHOOD disease may be divided for convenience into three main categories:

• Those affecting the gastro-intestinal tract, including diseases of an infectious nature and those arising as a result of infestation by worms (parasitism).

• Those affecting the respiratory system, including lungworms.

• Those resulting from nutritional deficiencies, especially vitamins and minerals.

Congenital Abnormalities In Sheep In Western Australia, Stanley M. Dennis

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

IN every flock of sheep an abnormal or deformed lamb is seen from time to time.

But in some flocks in some years the incidence of these abnormal lambs is higher than usual.

Calfhood Diseases. 2. Respiratory And Nutritional Deficiency Diseases, M R. Gardiner

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

MOST of the common organisms found in the environment of calf sheds and yards may at times be responsible for respiratory infections, to which the young animal is very susceptible.

Urinary Calculus Disease Of Sheep In Western Australia, M R. Gardiner

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

THE formation of concretions in the urinary tract of rams and wethers is one of the most persistent causes of loss of sheep in Western Australia, and has been so for many years.

Time Of Lambing At Esperance, R J. Doyle

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

ESPERANCE is one of the few places in Western Australia at which experiments over three years have shown a definite improvement in number of lambs produced to marking, as a result of lambing in the August-September period.

A Sheep Management Calendar For Lambing On Green Feed, H E. Fels, J. A. C. Smith

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

The calendar contained in this article has been drawn up by officers of the Wheat and Sheep Division as a guide to farmers who plan to adopt July-August lambing.

The article also summarises the advantages and complications of later lambing (as opposed to the conventional autumn lambing) and discusses farm management programmes to deal with the problems in various districts.

Cow's Hoofs Need To Be Watched, Department Of Agriculture, Western Australia

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

THE need for thorough trimming of the hoofs of sheep for the control of foot rot is recognized, but few realize the need for trimming the hoofs of cattle.

Mastitis : Prevention And Control. 2. Principles Of Mastitis Control, F C. Wilkinson

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

MASTITIS is a major cause of financial loss in over half our dairy herds.

Losses result from treatment costs, milk discarded, permanent loss of milk production, culling, lowering of solids-not-fat content and loss of butter-fat production.

Mastitis CAN be controlled. This article outlines the basic principles of mastitis control in the milking shed.

Virginia Dental Journal (Vol. 42, No. 2, 1965)

Virginia Dental Journal

No abstract provided.

Mastitis : Its Prevention And Control. 1. The Udder In Health And Disease, F C. Wilkinson

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

This is the first of a series of four articles on mastitis which will appear in consecutive issues of the Journal of Agriculture.

This is an introductory article describing the cow's udder in health and disease.

Control Of Lice On Poultry, B R. Vale

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

DURING February and March of 1965 some particularly heavy body lice infestations were found on fowls in both deep litter and cage units in Western Australia.

In some instances comparatively new laying cage units were involved.

The most seriously affected flocks showed marked unthriftiness and depressed egg production.

Pig-Pox, F C. Wilkinson

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

THE lesions of pig-pox appear rather alarming when seen for the first time.

Fairly large red areas initially appear on the pig's skin followed later by scab formation, with healing two or three weeks after the first appearance of the disease.

Laser In Clinical Ophthalmology: Possible Applications, Limitations, And Hazards, Walter J. Geeraets

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

The present status of laser application in clinical ophthalmology is discussed. The differences between conventional light coagulator characteristics and those of presently available ruby lasers for clinical use are compared. The limitations and hazards of laser therapy are stressed.

Mcv/Q, Medical College Of Virginia Quarterly, Vol. 1 No. 2

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Rheumatic Fever: Natural History And Treatment, Alvan R. Feinstein

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

Major advances in clinical and laboratory research methods have significantly clarified the identification and natural course of rheumatic fever in the past two decades.

Γ-Globulin Administration And Anti-Globulin Antibodies In Children, Marion Waller, Nellie Curry

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

We examined sera from 185 non-hospitalized children, 44 of whom had received repeated injections of γ-globulin for upper respiratory infections. There was no significant difference in the incidence of anti-globulin antibodies in the two groups. The presence of anti-globulin antibodies could not be correlated with the level of γ-globulin in the children's sera or with the age of the children.