RECENT advances in the treatment of Meningitis due to Hamophilus Influenzae have focussed increasing attention on this infection, and our figures at The Northern Ireland Fever Hospital suggest that there is a real as well as an apparent increase in the incidence of this disease. HISTORY In 1938, Kane reported to the Ulster Medical Society a total of seven cases of influenzal meningitis which ha...

One should never sleep during day-time after eating. Such sleep excites phlegm and bile and brings on such diseases as jaundice, painful headaches, languor and unsteadiness, as also heaviness of the limbs, loss of lightness of the body, loss of appetite, dropsical swellings, hiccough, inflammation of the Schneiderian membrane, loss of memory and intelligence, hemicrania, urticaria evanida, erup...

The enormous demand for individual psychoanalytic treatment in private practice, which is peculiar to American society, has created special problems of postgraduate psychiatric education in the United States. Many able young doctors are attracted to psychoanalysis by its high prestige and considerable financial rewards. As the result, there is a tendency on the part of some trainees to neglect ...