Medical and Surgical History of the

FIGURE 6.2. Incidents of Illness per 1,000 White and BlackTroops, Union Army Source The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1, Medical Volume [Washington GPO, 1888], pp. 6-77 passim. The figure for camp fevers is a compilation of continued, typho-malaria, and malarial fevers. See George Worthington Adams, Doctors in Blue, p. 240). 

C. Linton, Medical and Surgical History of the British Army in the Crimea,... 

W. Eve, in Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1866. 

A detailed clinical history, past medical and surgical history, medications, allergies, laboratory work-up, physical examination, and NIHSS should be obtained as quickly as possible for assessment of inclusion and exclusion criteria for lAT. Table 4.1 lists the criteria for catheter-based reperfusion therapy currently in place at the Massachusetts General Hospital (Table 4.1 see also www.acutestroke.com for updated criteria). 

The decision to treat a glaucoma patient is made after careful consideration of, among other things, the patient s needs, medical and surgical history, age, and abilities (e.g., to self-medicate) and the practitioner s treatment philosophy. 

Evansville, Indiana, for example, noted, Chronic diarrhea has been extremely common in this hospital, and in many instances so rebellious as to defy aU modes of treatment that we could devise. i9 Similarly, assistant surgeon Samuel A. Storrow of Eckington Hospital in Washington, DC, called it the most common disease with which the medical staff of this hospital has to deal. 20 The extent of the problem is manifested in the coverage devoted to it in The Medical and Surgical History the entire 842 pages of Part 2, Volume 1 contain more than 900 case studies reported and summarized. 

In 1857, the same year that Ludlow s book appeared on the booksellers shelves, a physician named John Bell noted in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal that "the various periodicals of this country have abounded, during the last few years, with accounts of hashisch every experimenter giving the history of the effect it has had upon himself."... 

Wyeth JA (1878). Prize essay essays upon the surgical anatomy and history of the common, external and internal carotid arteries and the surgical anatomy of the innominate and subclavian arteries. Appendix to Transactions of the American Medical Association (AMA) Philadelphia 29 1-245 Yadav JS, Roubin GS, King P et al. (1996). Angioplasty and stenting for restenosis after carotid endarterectomy. Initial experience. Stroke 27 2075-2079... 

The year 1935 forms a natural division in the history of chemotherapy because of Domagk s discovery of the chemotherapeutic properties of Trontosif, the first of the anti-bacterial sulfonamides. This discovery refuted a prejudice that chemotherapy applied mainly to protozoal diseases, and it opened a new era in medical and surgical treatment. Woods (1940) then discovered that sulfonamides blocked the use by bacteria of one of their essential constituents (/ -aminobenzoic acid). This was in accord with Ehrlich s postulate that drugs... 

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