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Physical Illness: The Family And The Physician, Marc H. Hollender

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

When confronted by the specific stress of a close relative's illness, the family members' reactions may be schematically divided into three stages: 1) disorganization; 2) reintegration; and 3) adjustment. Either disorganization can be intensified or adjustment can be fostered, depending on the physician's understanding of the feelings the family members experience and his willingness and ability to be helpful. The family members' responses, in turn, will influence the patient's reaction to illness or his recovery and rehabilitation. Accordingly, good medical practice requires that the physician include the family in his total treatment plan whenever possible.

The Older Population And The Aged Patient, Ewald W. Busse

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

Modern medical practice requires that the physician and other members of the health team have full appreciation of the impact of disease and disability upon identifiable groups of patients and recognize how nonmedical factors affect treatment and prognosis. It is important for the physician to have some idea of the patient's socioeconomic status and the actual and potential number of patients with not only a common diagnosis, but also similarities in their living conditions. With such knowledge, the physician can be much more realistic and efficient in his therapeutic efforts. Persons 65 years of age and over are commonly referred …

Anxiety, Defense And Cognition: A Theoretical Basis For Practical Handling Of The Surgical Patient, Stanley L. Block

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

Both the anxiety-defense model and the cognitive model provide a scientific basis for practical handling of the surgical patient. Emerging from both models is a humanistic approach to the patient based on understanding and a nonjudgmental attitude as well as on a knowledge of where the patient is psychologically and a willingness to meet him on his ground. The rewards in terms of a reduction of anxiety, depression, and human suffering can be enormous.

Sexual Counseling In Medical Practice, George Kriegman

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

In summary, sexual relationships involve two factors: lustful gratification and emotional and physical closeness. Lustful gratification involves sexual identity which is determined by: 1) biological sex; 2) gender identity; 3) child-parent relationships; 4) cultural value systems; and 5) sexological knowledge. Sexual problems are due to ignorance of the sexual facts of life and/or to contamination of the sexual area by other needs, wishes, or fears. A detailed understanding of the presenting complaints and the sexual history of the patient will enable the physician to make a differential diagnosis. The physician can then clarify the problem and assist the patient in …

Volume Five Author Index

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

Author index for MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly, Volume Five.

Isolated Organ Perfusion: Physiology And Application, William E. Gayle Jr.

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

Isolated organ perfusion provides us with an excellent tool for investigating the physiology and the function of a variety of individual organs. It enables us to explore these organs, their pharmacologic reactions, their ability to withstand various stresses, their pathology after stress and their suitability for preservation and transplantation. Isolated perfusion has allowed us to better understand hemodynamics, effects of various perfusates, and toxicity of drugs on individual organs. We have recently been enlightened about the vital role of platelets and endothelial integrity. We now have a model for assessing individual hormonal systems and qualitative and quantitative endocrine and exocrine …

Contributors To This Issue

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

List of contributors to this issue includes Sterling G. Bradley, William S. C. Copeman, Berta Scharrer, N. Herbert Spector, and Donald G. Walker.

Unilateral Aphakia And Contact Lenses, Herbert Wiesinger

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

The binocular functions of a group of 60 patients with unilateral aphakia were tested after fitting with a contact lens. Results showed a high degree of extramacular fusion in the group. However, only 50% of these patients obtained satisfactory stereoacuity levels. There was no relation between the time elapsed from cataract extraction to contact lens fitting and the amount of ultimate stereoacuity obtained. Some factors presenting common obstacles to successful fitting of aphakic contact lenses are discussed.

Contents

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

Table of contents for MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly, 1969, Volume Five, Number Four.

Contributors To This Issue

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

List of contributors to this issue includes Folkert O. Belzer, William E. Gayle, Jr., Walter H. Graham, Mark A. Hardy, V. Eric Kemp, Hermes A. Kontos, Hyung M. Lee, Richard R. Lower, Anthony P. Monaco, Ronald T. Rolley, David Sewell, G. Melville Williams, and James S. Wolf.

The Role Of Preservation In Transplantation, Folkert O. Belzer

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

Although it is too early to draw any definite conclusions from these results, as a period of two years is probably necessary to evaluate cadaver kidney transplantation in humans, it appears that our well-matched patients have much fewer problems than our poorly matched patients. It is hoped that by preservation methods such as those discussed, improved methods of tissue typing, and better immunosuppressive therapy, we will be able to raise the survival level of cadaver kidney transplantations to the level between 80 and 85% presently being obtained in transplantations using living, related donors.

Ada Constitution And Bylaws Amendments (1969), American Dental Association

Constitution & Bylaws

The ADA Commons Constitution & Bylaws archival collection comprises printed issues of the American Dental Association's Constitution and Bylaws. The collection also includes the ADA Charter and the ADA Code of Ethics issued 1924-1946.

Histamine And Thyroid Hormone Function, Richard W. Schayer

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

Briefly, it will be postulated that a major function of thyroid hormone is for slowly developing adaptations of the circulatory system to environmental changes, and that many thyroid hormone effects are secondary to altered perfusion of tissues. There is no known in vitro effect of thyroid hormone which can reasonably explain any major number of the in vivo effects (Tata, 1964).

Carbon Monoxide Poisoning: Some Aspects Of The Problem In Great Britain, Keith A. Mant

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

In Great Britain, until recently, domestic gas was made from coal and was always referred to as "coal gas." Today we are beginning to use natural gas, and the term coal gas is being replaced by "town gas." Most of the domestic supply, however, is still coal gas, which has a high though variable percentage of carbon monoxide (Mant, 1964). In any event it is always present in a highly lethal concentration. As coal gas is so readily available, it has been the most popular suicidal poison for many years, although the recent figures show that barbiturates are overtaking it …

What Referring Physicians Can Expect From The Psychiatrist, David R. Hawkins

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

I hope that I have persuaded you that the psychiatrist can be a very useful colleague to non-psychiatric physicians. He can be most useful if the referring physician works at developing a mutual learning relationship with him and keeping all lines of communication open.

Psychiatric Issues In Therapeutic Abortion, Henry D. Lederer

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

For the purpose of this discussion I should like to focus your attention on the psychiatric involvement, questions, dilemmas, and opinions concerning therapeutic abortion. Under most of the existing statutes, therapeutic abortion is only permitted to preserve the life of the mother. Therefore, within the context of strict interpretation, the sole psychiatric indication is a high probability of suicide by the pregnant patient.

Mcv/Q, Medical College Of Virginia Quarterly, Vol. 5 No. 4

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Relation Of Tissue Typing To Results Of Clinical Transplants, Hyung M. Lee

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

Current data reveal that, when matching is very good, there is also very good correlation in living related donor results, particularly in the sibling donor source. When there is slight mismatching, correlation is not as good; however, many patients seem to do well in spite of some mismatch. Correlation in the unrelated cadaver group is not as precise or significant. The current status of tissue typing is still not as precise as it should be, in order for us to rely on it as a selection criterion for renal homotransplantation. However, with rapidly advancing knowledge of antigen groups in the …

National Children's Dental Health Week (1969), American Dental Association, Bureau Of Dental Health Education, American Dental Association, Bureau Of Public Information

National Children's Dental Health Month

Informational pamphlet on the week-long dental public education campaign National Children's Dental Health Week. In 1979 the week was expanded to the full month of February.

Ada Code Of Ethics (January 1969), American Dental Association

Code of Ethics

The ADA Code of Ethics has three main components: The Principles of Ethics, the Code of Professional Conduct and the Advisory Opinions. Contents may also include: Amendment to ADA Principles of Ethics and Code of Professional Conduct and Insert for the ADA Principles of Ethics and Code of Professional Conduct. The most current issue is available on the ADA’s website.

Psychophysical Estimation Of The Effective Level Of Internal Noise In The Auditory System, John Robert Franks

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper reviews a study to examine signal detection in the auditory system.

Outlook Magazine, Autumn 1969

Outlook Magazine

No abstract provided.

Two Causes Of Reduced Profit From Pigs, G A L Ward

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

LOSS of condition in a pig affects profits more severely than slow rate of growth.

Two common symptoms, scouring and itching, cause weight loss and are followed by a period of reduced weight gain.

Protection For Animals In Biomedical Research, F. L. Thomsen

Laboratory Experiments Collection

Our conclusion from all of this work and study is that not just a small part, but that most of the suffering undergone by laboratory animals in "unnecessary" under the terms of the pain provisions of the Rogers-Javits bill. Granted, it will take some time and effort to bring about the necessary interpretations of these provisions. The Act, when passed, offers us the medium through which to obtain such interpretations.

This unnecessary suffering results mostly from the indifference, and from the inertia and the lack of proper scientific training and technical knowledge, of many of those conducting laboratory animal experiments …

Problems In Transportation Of Animals, Alice M. Wagner

Animal Welfare Collection

This afternoon we are considering the problems involved in the transportation of animals. Undoubtedly we have all had people problems as we travel by car, train and by air, and with the increase of travel things seem to be growing worse instead of better. I commuted from my home in New Jersey to Philadelphia for 18 1/2 years - a round trip of five hours - so I know plenty of things that can happen in transportation and commutation.

So it is with animals. An increasing number of animals are being shipped - shipped as pets, shipped as meat animals, …

Mcv/Q, Medical College Of Virginia Quarterly, Vol. 5 No. 1

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Investigations On Congenital And Induced Osteopetrosis, Donald G. Walker

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

Osteopetrosis, or marble bone disease, is a disturbance of skeletal development in which the rate of bone resorption fails to keep pace with the rate of bone formation. Bone matrix accumulates excessively throughout the skeletal system, causing damage to neighboring tissues--particularly the dental, hematopoietic and nervous tissues. The line of investigation on osteopetrosis which has led to the current point of view that the thyroid gland represents the primary side of the disturbance was initiated soon after an experimental animal became available.

Thermodes And Theories, Herbert N. Spector

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

This brief outline reviews some of the important studies done with various types of thermodes employed for heating or cooling loci in the brain and discusses some sources of the findings relevant to our understanding of temperature regulation in mammals.

Abstracts Of Theses For Graduate Degrees

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

Medical College of Virginia, June, 1968. Summary includes: Studies on Sulfonamides: Physiochemical Properties in Relation to Biological Activity by Richard Charles Allen; The Incisures of Schmidt-Lanterman by Nabil A. Azzam; Loosely Linked Mutations Enhancing L-Arabinose Utilization in Escherichia coli B/r by Robert G. Bost; Induction of Fusion in Cultured Cells in the Presence of Para-influenza 3 Virus by Mildred Kaiser Fleetwood; Correlations Between Acid-Base Behavior and Ion Fluxes in Frog Skin by Ruth Torvik Friedman; The Mating Pattern of Five Strains of Drosophila equinoxialis by Ragnit Geeraets; The Intrinsic Back Musculature of Macaca mulatta by Robert M. George; Mechanical Effects …

Days, Old And New, William T. Sanger

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

Personal thoughts and reflections from William T. Sanger, Chancellor Emeritus, Medical College of Virginia, presented at the Biological Seminar, May 8, 1968.