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- Herausgeber: Science & Technology Publishing
- Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
- Sprache: Englisch
The Hospital Bulletin Vol. V, No. 3, May 15, 1909, is a historical periodical published by the University of Maryland, Baltimore, serving as a vital record of early 20th-century medical advancements, institutional updates, and professional discourse. This issue offers a fascinating glimpse into the medical practices, educational developments, and hospital news of its era. It features scholarly articles, case studies, and clinical reports contributed by faculty, students, and staff, reflecting the evolving landscape of medicine and healthcare. Readers will find detailed discussions on contemporary medical treatments, surgical techniques, and public health initiatives, as well as updates on hospital administration, staff appointments, and alumni activities. The Bulletin also includes editorials, book reviews, and announcements of upcoming events, providing a comprehensive overview of the academic and social life within the University of Maryland’s medical community. Rich in historical context, this volume is an invaluable resource for historians, medical professionals, and anyone interested in the legacy of American medical education and hospital care at the dawn of the 20th century.
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THE HOSPITAL BULLETIN
Vol. V
BALTIMORE, MD., MAY 15, 1909
No. 3
THREE ESOPHAGEAL CASES.
The esophagoscope has passed the experimental stage in the diagnosis and treatment of esophageal lesions. Its usefulness has been demonstrated so often that it would seem superfluous to dilate upon its value. Its use, however, is not as general as it should be. There are still those who consider esophagoscopy unnecessary or impracticable. At the Presbyterian Hospital we have had numerous instances of its practicability, and with us it has become the routine practice to examine all patients complaining of obscure esophageal symptoms. Dr. Chevalier Jackson records the case of a patient whose only symptom was a lump on swallowing. She appeared to be a neurasthenic, and his advice to have the esophagus examined was ignored by the family physician. Two months later, with the patient etherized for a radical antrum operation, he passed the esophagoscope and found a malignant growth.
Three interesting cases have recently come under my observation, and they illustrate so well the value of the esophagoscope I shall report them somewhat in detail. The first patient was seen with Dr. E. B. Freeman; she was 67 years old. The morning before she came to the hospital, while eating ham, she swallowed a large piece that had not been sufficiently masticated. It lodged in the introitus esophagi and remained there. When she came to the hospital she had swallowed neither solid nor liquid food for nearly thirty-six hours. A half hour before examining the esophagus she was given a hypodermic of morphia and atropia. With the patient in the sitting position the throat and upper end of the esophagus were anesthetized with 10 per cent solution of cocaine. Jackson's laryngeal speculum was introduced and the larynx pulled forward. A large mass resembling somewhat an ulcerative epithelioma was seen, and proved to be the piece of ham. Dr. Freeman and I removed it piecemeal with Pfau's foreign body forceps. It required about forty-five minutes to remove it entirely. The patient stood the ordeal well, and was able to go home the same afternoon. For about a week she had temperature, cough and expectoration, but ultimately made a good recovery. In this case the esophagoscope probably saved the patient an esophagotomy. The second patient was a female, thirty-three years old, referred to me by Dr. J. F. Chisolm, of Savannah. While at an oyster supper she attempted to swallow a large oyster, with the result that she choked for a few seconds and then had a sense of fulness in the region of the larynx. The next day she had some difficulty in swallowing, so that she took only liquids. The second day afterward swallowing was decidedly painful; she grew rapidly worse, until the fourth day her condition was serious. She reached this city the morning of the fifth day, with a temperature of 100 degrees and extreme prostration. The examination of the esophagus was made under ether with the head in the extended position. No foreign body was found, but the upper end of the esophagus was red, swollen and edematous, and seemed to be closed. The patient was given cold milk and ice bags to the throat. For two days she suffered excruciating pain on swallowing, and it looked as if we would have to resort to rectal feeding. The next day there was slight amelioration of the pain, which gradually disappeared. In this case the esophagoscope enabled us to see at once that a foreign body was not present, and that the symptoms were due to a severe, acute inflammation, probably caused by a piece of shell attached to the oyster.
I was asked by Dr. A. M. Shipley to examine a patient who had been referred to him for probable cancer of the stomach. The man was sixty years old and had had some trouble in swallowing for about two months. Attempts to pass the stomach tube were unsuccessful. The patient was examined in the sitting position after cocaine anesthetization. No difficulty was experienced in passing the esophagoscope. About three inches below the cricoid cartilage the progress of the instrument was arrested by a tumor partially closing the esophageal lumen. The esophagoscope showed that the tumor was too low for removal. In this case the patient can be dilated through the esophagoscope and made more comfortable for the short time he has to live.
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SYPHILITIC OSTEO-PERIOSTITIS.
The bony manifestations of syphilis occur as secondary and tertiary lesions, and as Keyes, of New York, has pointed out, these so-called “nodes” are simply local periosteal congestions, accompanied by serious effusions without cell hyperplesia. Any bone in the body may be affected by syphilis, but certain of them suffer by preference, such as the thin bones of the nose and pharynx—that is, those exposed to climatic changes and injuries, such as the bones of the skull, ulna, tibia, etc.
We must call special attention to injury as a powerful pre-disposing cause of bone syphilis, for, when we consider that bone lesions may be the only manifestations of existing syphilis, with the presence of a bone lesion before us, with an antecedent history of an injury, we must not forget that we may overlook the true nature of the disease, and hence must be constantly on the alert for the syphilitic taint.
Lancereaux classified the bone lesions under three heads, viz.:
(a) Inflammatory osteo-periostitis.
(b) Gummy tumor of bone.
(c) Dry caries, atrophic form.
(1) Inflammatory osteo-periostitis is the most frequent form, and is characterized by inflammatory phenomena, vascularization and exudation of a serio-glutinous material. It may be either diffuse or circumscribed, and located, as its name implies, in the area of contact with the osseous and periosteal surfaces. The pain is aching, acute, throbbing or boring in character, while tenderness upon pressure and percussion is most exquisitely excruciating. The diagnosis of inflammatory osteo-periostitis is comparatively easy, if we remember the characteristics, viz., an oval, painful, boggy or even hard bony lesion, accompanied by nocturnal exacerbations of pain, with a concomitant or antecedent history of syphilis. Ostitis with parenchymatous thickening is somewhat less positive in its character, but with nocturnal pains which are usually constant.
(2) Gummy tumor of bone develops either under the periostum, in the substance of bone, or in the medullary canal. It is simply an intensification of the process found in the inflammatory form just described, the difference being that the cell hyperplasia is more abundant. Much of the new material collects in a circumscribed space, and being more rapidly formed and less capable of organization, it entails more profound lesions by its retrograde metamorphosis. Generally tumor of the bone is, therefore, a much more serious form of disease than osteo-periostitis.
In the long bones the medullary canal is the usual seat of deposit. The bone becomes hypertrophied in a porous manner, the Haversian canals and canaliculi become enlarged and filled with a gummy material which resembles a solution of gum arabic. In the flat bones, especially the cranial bones, the cancellar tissue is attacked, and may cause a separation of the two tables, and often necrosis of one or the other plates results. If it happens to be the inner one which undergoes carious degeneration, brain symptoms will develop.
