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Jefferson Alumni Bulletin – Volume Xvii, Number 1 Fall 1967

The Bulletin (formerly the Jefferson Medical College Alumni Bulletin)

Jefferson Alumni Bulletin – Volume XVII, Number 1 Fall 1967

Beginning again, page 3

Meet the freshmen, page 5

A quarter of a century: then and now, page 17

The privilege of human dissection Andrew J. Ramsay, Ph. D., page 20

The requirement of informed consent: Bane or Boon? Donald J. Farage, Esq., page 25

The Jefferson scene, page 32

Faculty notes, page 34

Class notes, page 41

Letters to the editor, page 51

A Rhetorical Study Of Henry Grattan's Speeches On The "Catholic Question.", Richard Leo Lanigan Jr.

Speech and Hearing Sciences ETDs

There are a few men in history whose public speaking during their own lifetime generates public praise and personal fame from the people of two sovereign nations. Henry Grattan was such a man. The Irish House of Commons heard his voice echo for twenty-five years. This long career was extended and amplified by his election to the House of Commons in Great Britain for fifteen years until his death in 1820. This simple Irish Protestant rose to speak more than two hundred times during his forty-four years of public office in both parliaments.

Front Matter

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Spontaneous Rupture Of The Esophagus: Report Of A Successfully Managed Case, Eduardo Arciniegas

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Spontaneous rupture of the esophagus should be suspected in any patient developing severe chest pain after vomiting. The diagnosis is substantiated by the presence of subcutaneous emphysema in the suprasternal region on physical examination and of mediastinal air on the plain chest roentgenogram. Further radiological confirmation may be obtained by oral administration of a watersoluble radio-opaque material. Immediate surgical repair of the esophageal tear is mandatory.

Changing Times For Professional Nurses, Helen E. Harper

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Suggestions for making better use of the available supply of nurses and for the training of future nurses are made by the author, who is a graduate (1947) of the Henry Ford Hospital School of Nursing and has been director of nursing at three Michigan hospitals.

Art In Psychotherapy, Robert R. Schopbach

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Art is a tool too often neglected in psychotherapy. A careful study of a patient's drawings will provide information concerning diagnosis, dynamics, and progress. If, in addition, the patient explains and elaborates upon the content and symbolism, the drawings become excellent psychotherapeutic devices providing an entry into the patient's unconscious.

Contrangle - Vol. 9, No. 1, Dental Students Association

Contrangle

In this issue:

- Team of Students and Faculty Pilot Dental Program in Guatemala

- Welcome New Students

- Monument Valley Dental Clinic Accredited

- DSA Meeting

- Dentistry in Antiquity

- Rawson to Direct Table Clinic at Convention

- Help Save Welfare Clinic

- ADHA Recommends Baccalaureate Program

- DSA Forum
-- Welcome from Lothar Gutschuss, DSA President
-- Welcome from Tom Aufdemberg, First Vice President

- Editorial

- Bixel Passes Japanese Boards

- Jorgensen to Head International Committee

- UOP Dental School Moves to New Facilities

- Letters to the Editor

Influence Of Some Stressors On Peripheral Blood Response To Estrogen Stimulation In The Female Mallard Duck, Morton S. Rickless

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

A Study Of The Relative Effectiveness Of Three Methods Of Teaching An Unfamiliar Speech Sound, Nancy A. Thompson

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Nurse-Patient Interpretations Of The Nurse's Touch, Judith Ann Trowbridge

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

The purpose of this study was to discover whether or not patients and nurses derived a similar meaning from pictures of a nurse touching a patient in various ways. Five by seven inch black and white photographs were shown to thirty patients and thirty registered nurses. The subjects were controlled in regard to sex, race, residence, language, and physical and emotional orientation. They were asked to focus upon the photographed nurse's touch and to tell in one or two words what meaning they felt that the nurse was trying to convey to the patient by her touch. Responses were recorded …

Nurses' Responses To Patients' Spiritual Needs, Janice Pearl Luchak Chance

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

This exploratory study had as its objective the identification of the spiritual needs of patients. Three aspects of the study were: (1) to identify the spiritual needs students of nursing recognized during the care of their patients; (2) to discover the type of behavior patients manifested which enabled the students to recognize these needs and, (3) to identify the spiritual care given to patients by students during their regular nursing assignments.

Thirty-seven senior students, enrolled in the baccalaureate programs of three Seventh-day Adventists colleges, used a questionnaire constructed for this study to identify spiritual needs after they had given nursing …

The Effects Of Particular Sounds On Certain Indices Of Cardio-Pulmonary Functions, Harold F. Googe, Jane Mundin

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

The purpose of this study was to identify the effects of particular sounds upon certain indices of cardio-pulmonary function and the degree and pattern of changes which occurred in the indices. The specific physiological parameters chosen to be monitored were heart rate, respiratory rate, mean tidal volume, instantaneous minute volume, and oxygen consumption. The hypothesis was that particular sounds will cause changes in certain indices of cardio-pulmonary functions. This was a controlled experiment, in which nine healthy males and nine healthy females, of a denominational, medically oriented University listened to a specially constructed tape of background music interspersed with an …

Ethical Attitudes And Education Of A Group Of California Dietitians, Sharon L. Culpepper

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

A questionnaire was developed to determine the ethical attitudes and education of a group of California dietitians. A group of 198 randomly selected individuals from the California Dietetic Association membership of 2,180 participated in the study.

Great diversity was exhibited in age, type of position held and total years of work experience in the sample group. Eighty-one per cent of the respondents were less than forty-nine years of age. The positions most frequently held by the participants were in hospital therapeutics and administration, teaching and schools, and consultant work. Sixty-three per cent were employed on either a full-time or part-time …

Effects Of Monaural And Binaural Delayed Auditory Feedback On Reading Time Of Stutterers And Non-Stutterers, Barry E. Guitar

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Chironian Vol. 28 No. 2, New York Medical College

The Chironian

No abstract provided.

Relationship Of Vertebral Size To Fracture In Osteoporotic Spines, Richmond W. Smith, Peter M. Taft

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

This study is an extension of early observations that Negro women were free of vertebral fractures and had lower mean values for vertebral dimensions than white women. Skeletal dimensions should be considered in the further study of osteoporosis and its structural consequences, the authors state.

Treatment Of Hyperthyroidism From The Autonomous Multinodular Goiter, J. Martin Miller, Richard E. Weber, Melvin A. Block

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

47 patients with large multinodular goiters and "non-Graves" hyperthyroidism were treated surgically or given radioiodine therapy. The severity of the disease and cardiac complications were comparable in each group. Results favor subtotal thyroidectomy if the disease is other than mild or if atrial fibrillation is present.

Psychiatric Emergencies, W. J. Cassidy

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Types of psychiatric emergencies seen in general practice or in a hospital emergency setting are defined, along with recommendations for handling. Also discussed are P.E. in children, methods of detecting the potential suicide and some conclusions based on a 2562 patient survey in one hospital.

Infection In The Newborn Infant And Its Association With Prolonged Rupture Of The Amniotic Membranes, Philip J. Howard, A. Robert Bauer

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Infections in newborn infants should be suspected and treatment started whenever birth is prolonged following rupture of the membranes. These studies show that risk increases as rupture time gets longer. Selected antibiotics at proper dosages are recommended as preventive measures.

Current Problems In Meningococcal Diseases, E. L. Quinn

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Front Matter

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

What Nursing Personnel Know About Identifying The Signs Of Increased Intracranial Pressure, Naomi Bullard

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

This study was concerned with finding out how much nursing personnel know about identifying signs of increased intracranial pressure and what understanding they have regarding the importance of prompt reporting of these signs.

A statement was prepared describing what the registered nurse, the license vocational nurse and the nursing assistant should know. This was validated by a panel of experts.

A two part questionnaire was developed from this statement. Part I asked for an essay response regarding the definition, causes, signs and symptoms and the nurse responsibility in intracranial pressure. Part II presented situations to which best answers were to …

A Cephalometric Study Of The Face And Dentition Of Several Contemporary Western United States And Alaskan Eskimo Groups, Robert C. Parkard

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

A total of 223 cephalometric radiographs selected from six contemporary western United States and Alaskans native groups were analyzed by use of the Bjork cephalometric analysis. Those native groups selected were the Eskimos, Apaches, Navajos, Papagos, Pimas and Mayos. Approximately thirty to forty natives from each group were used in the study with ages ranging from thirteen to thirty-five years. The majority were in the fifteen to twenty year age range.

All data was submitted to various statistical analyses to establish a mean, standard deviation, and other relevant values for each of the native groups and to compare these values …

The Effect Of Written Sigmoidoscopy Information On Discomfort, Sharon Anderson

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

An experimental research study was conducted on eighty-four patients in one part-pay clinic. The study was guided by the null hypothesis which stated that the patient who receives specific written information before the sigmoidoscopic exam reports the same discomfort as the patient who has not had this information. The purpose of the study was to compare the discomfort experienced by patients who received specific information about this examination with the discomfort; of patients who had not had this information. An instruction and information sheet was prepared to give the patient an idea of what to expect during the examination. A …

The Effect Of Glucose On Neutrophilic Phagocytosis, Donald F. Adams

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Samples of blood were obtained from thirty healthy young adult males (Loma Linda University School of Dentistry), and contaminated with bacteria. Varying concentrations of pure glucose were added to this mixture to observe the effect of the glucose on in vitro neutrophilic phagocytosis. As the glucose levels increased a statistically significant suppression was noted in the ability of the neutrophilic leukocytes to engulf Staphylococcus epidermidis.

It was not possible, however, to predict the degree of suppression for any particular level of glucose added nor is it possible to state that suppression will occur in any one individual.

Two methods of …

Carbon Dioxide Fixation In Schistosoma Mansoni, Clint Earl Carter

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Adults of the blood fluke Schistosoma mansoni were perfused from the hepatic portal system of CF1 female mice sixty to seventy days post infection. The worms were then incubated in Eagle’s minimal essential medium with glutamate and 0.03 mg/100 ml of nonlabelled aspartic acid. To this medium was added 10 μc of either NaH¹⁴0₃, glucose-UC¹⁴ or aspartate-4-C¹⁴. The worms were found to fix carbon from the NaH¹⁴0₃ and to incorporate the glucose and aspartate. The amount of activity recovered in five different chemical fractions after two hours incubation was determined …

Herbs And Your Health - Part Iii, Ben C. Harris

Green Revolution

No abstract provided.

Jefferson Alumni Bulletin – Volume Xvi, Number 3 Spring 1967

The Bulletin (formerly the Jefferson Medical College Alumni Bulletin)

Jefferson Alumni Bulletin – Volume XVI, Number 3 Spring 1967

The inauguration of Peter Andrew Herbut, page 2

About the new Dean, page 15

The changing medical times by William F. Kellow, M.D., page 17

Crisis in health care: the Jefferson response by John W. Goldschmidt, M.D., page 20

The Orlowitz residence hall by Edward A. Teitelman, M.D., page 29

Project Haiti by Thomas C. Kravis, page 34

The Samuel D. Gross professor of surgery, page 37

The Jefferson scene, page 38

Faculty notes, page 42

Alumni corner, page 46

Class notes, page 49

Some interesting Jefferson alumni, page 59

The Chironian Vol. 28 No. 1, New York Medical College

The Chironian

No abstract provided.

Comfrey Is A Good Healer

Green Revolution

Reprinted from Comfrey, The Wonder Plant, Box 122, Otorohanga, New Zealand.