Leavitt, John

Perhaps the success or failure of treatment is best seen in individual case studies that follow treatment from beginning to end. The first is the postoperative treatment of Joseph Leavitt. John Leavitt of Portland, Maine, outlines the case and follows his son s progress for his wife—Joseph s mother—in a series of letters dated from June 6 to July 11, 1864.102 Joseph was brought into the Mansion House Hospital in Alexandria, Virginia, after having his foot amputated. The operative site itself seemed to be improving, and his father writes on... 

Bast RC Jr, Klug TL, St John E, Jenison E, Niloff JM, Lazarus H, Berkowitz RS, Leavitt T, Griffiths CT, Parker L, Jr Zurawski VR, Knapp RC, A radioimmunoassay using a monoclonal antibody to monitor the course of epithelial ovarian cancer, N. Engl. J. Med., 309 883-7, 1983. 

Both of these cases show the importance of pharmaceutical care, even in postoperative cases. Both cases also demonstrate that even the simplest amputations were rarely without their life-threatening complications. Joseph Leavitt almost certainly succumbed to double pneumonia, whereas John Rial probably survived with a partial leg that would give him health problems the rest of his life. At best. Rial s symptoms would subside and the wound would completely heal at worst he would live a life of constant misery with recurrent bouts of erysipelas or osteomyelitis. 

NLM, MS C 303, HMD Manuscripts, John Leavitt, Letters to his wife concerning their son, a patient in Mansion House Hospital, Alexandria, Virginia, 1864. 

Siliceous protozoan plates and scales. Marianne S. V. Douglas John P. Smol Biogenic silica. Daniel J. Conley Claire L. Schelske Sedimentary pigments. Peter R. Leavitt Dominic A. Hodgson Glossary, Acronyms and Abbreviations Subject Index... 

Leavitt, H.J. 1964. New Perspectives in Organization Research. John WUey, New YorL... 

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