based on thorough documentation and of continuing use in medical libraries is a list of early American journals conveniently grouped under state-names; amongst them is a title curiously unnoticed in Austin'sEarly American Medical Imprints, that of the first medical journal published in the United States about 1790, a translation from the French (Journal of the practice of medicine .. . in the m...

State hospitals were once the most prominent components of U.S. public mental health systems. But a major focus of mental health policy over the past fifty years has been to close these facilities. These efforts led to a 95 percent reduction in the country’s state hospital population. However, more than 200 state hospitals remain open, serving a declining but challenging patient population. Usi...

This book is published under the auspices of the Department of Criminal Science of the Faculty of Law in the University of Cambridge. Professor and Mrs. Glueck are well known in this country as well as in America for their painstaking investigations in Criminology and their forward outlook on problems connected with crime and criminals. The book, although small, is full of facts and information.

We review the records of 79 tetanus patients in two hospitals (one tertiary and one secondary level) in Owo, Ondo state, Nigeria from 1997 to 2006. The male: female ratio was 3:1. Ages were 14-70 years (mean 33.25 years, SD ±16.76). The overall case fatality rate (CFR), 32.91%, did was not significantly different in the two hospitals. CFR for men was 32.10% and for women 35.29%. The main factor...