The clinical experience of an army surgeon in a military hospital in East Nepal is discussed. The truly general nature of the work load is highlighted and the need for a broad based general training in surgery for such a task is well illustrated. A high degree of interdisciplinary cooperation was experienced and was indeed essential for good clinical practice. The health problems of a developin...

EPIDEMIC infantile gastro-enteritis due to the specific serological types of Escherichia coli is the most infectious disease that is regularly admitted to hospitals in England, and there are at present no successful methods of preventing crossinfection by these organisms (Rogers, 1956). Jameson, Mann & Rothfield (1954) describe a large outbreak in which control was only achieved by complete clo...

Chronic Renal Failure (CRF) is a major public health problem. Early diagnosis and treatment are basic for its prognosis, and it will be fundamental for the future necessity of substitutive renal treatment. For this purpose, determining the etiology of CRF may be helpful. This study was conducted in the Nephrology Department at the Central Military Hospital in Sana’a, Yemen from 2004 to 2007; to...

Jin-Chuan Yan1†, Yi Liang1, Gen-Shan Ma2, Jian Zhu2, Yi Feng2, Dan Luo2, Zong-Gui Wu3, Xian-Tao Kong3, Ren-Qian Zong3 & Lin-Zen Zhan3 †Author for correspondence 1Department of Cardiology, Affiliated Hospital of JiangSu University, China Tel.: + 86 511 502 6169; E-mail: yanjinchuan@ hotmail.com 2Zhong Da Hospital, Southeast University, Nanjing 210009, China 3Chang Zheng Hospital, Second Military...

Shortly after war broke out in 1914 Dr Flora Murray and Dr Louisa Garrett Anderson, two former members of the Women’s Social and Political Union, founded their own women’s hospital organization to care for soldiers wounded in the fighting. Experience in the suffrage movement had taught them what the likely reaction of the authorities would be to any offer of help from women doctors, so they app...

OBJECTIVE To describe the treatment of children at an expeditionary military hospital in wartime Iraq. DESIGN Descriptive, retrospective study. SETTING The 332nd Air Force Theater Hospital in Balad, Iraq, January 1, 2004, to May 31, 2005. PATIENTS All 85 children (of 1626 total patients) evaluated and treated at the hospital during the study period. INTERVENTIONS Indicated surgical proc...

OBJECTIVE To determine the outcome of anthrax immunisation. METHODS Adverse reactions (occurrence, nature, severity and incapacity) and immune responses to a voluntary programme of anthrax immunisation at 0, 3, 6, and 24 weeks were monitored by questionnaire and voluntary blood sampling in 129 members, including 24 immunised 7 years previously (immunes), of a military field hospital alerted f...

Forty-two male patients with reactive spondyloarthropathies in a Dutch military hospital are described with mean age of onset 21.9 years. Peripheral arthritis or sacroiliitis was present in all, eye symptoms in 21 (50%), and genitourinary disease in 15 (35.7%). Evidence of antecedent sexually acquired or enterocolitic infection was found only in three (7.2%). HLA-B27 antigen was detected in 34 ...