INTRODUCTION. Feelings of discomfort may be experienced by persons entering artificially cooled buildings in hot weather. For some years p4st, residents in India, Malaya and notably in Shanghai have complained that the cooling of public building,s by means of air-conditioning systems frequently fails to solve the problem of comfort during hot weather. It is a common experience that an acute sense of chilling described as "cold shock" may be felt on entering an air-conditioned building from the street, whilst on leaving it an overpowering sensation of heat may be encountered.
Reconstruction of the nose is not a modern surgical procedure, having been practised by the Tilemakers, a very low caste of the ancient Hindus, long before the Christian era.
Available clinical and epidemiological data suggest that typhus fever in Lanchow is predominantly of the epidemic louse-borne type (1). This presumption receives support from the results of laboratory studies of 5 typhus strains isolated locally (2,3) and of specific complement fixation tests on specimens of serum obtained from local patients during convalescence (4).
FUN-YONG KHOO, PING-YI CHANG, CHING-YAN LEE, KUO-SHENG FAN
Vol.66,No.051948
DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0366-6999.66.05.104
Abstract
Multiple cartilaginous exostoses is one of the commonly found bone dystrophies, and its distribution is apparently worldwide (Hale, 1). This disorder is also to be found in the Chinese, with evidently as high a frequency as in many other places, for we have been able to come across seven cases in Chengtu within a period of four years from 1943 to 1946. Their case histories follow.
The clinical diagnosis of thymus gland tumors is difficult, if not impossible, to make. Early in the course of such tumors, there are often cough, fever and slight loss of weight simulating pulmonary tuberculosis.
Enlargement of liver and spleen often presents an interesting problem for differential diagnosis. It may indicate seriousness of the disease, or when the enlargment returns to normal, an improvement.
With the wide usage of roentgenological examinations in the diagnosis of obscure conditions, certain previously unrecognized pathological changes of the skeleton especially have been brought to the fore and attracted the attention of the profession.
Agranulocytosis still remains to be one of the most dreaded maladies. Various remedies, including nucleic acid derivatives, yellow bone marrow, blood transfusion, X-ray irradiation, pyridoxine and liver extract, have all been tried either singly or in combination, but none found to be specific (1,2).
The increase of case reports of duodenal ulcer in children in the recent literature indicates that the condition is not too rare. Hecker and Buhl (1) in 1864 first reported a case of duodenal ulcer in an infant. Spiegelberg (2) from 1868-1869 reported perforation of duodenal ulcer in two infants, 5 and 24 hours old respectively.
