Book Review A Textbook of Urology in Men, Women and Children, Including Urinary and Sexual Infections, Urethroscopy and Cystoscopy . By Victor Cox Pedersen, A.M., M.D., F.A.C.S. Major, Medical Corps, United States Army; Consulting Physician to the Selective Service Headquarters in the City of New York; Member of the Council of National Defence, New York State Committee, Medical Section; Visiting Urologist to St. Mark's Hospital; Major, Medical Reserve Corps, United States of America; Member of the American Urological Association, American Medical Association, New York State and County Medical Societies, New York Academy of Medicine, American Electrotherapeutics Association, the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, and of the Committee on Venereal Diseases of the Advisory Council of the Department of Health of New York City. Illustrated with 362 engravings, of which 152 are original and 13 colored plates. Philadelphia and New York: Lea and Febiger, 1919.

The impression that alcoholism is common among the Irish is a very old one. It has been given some scientific basis by comparative studies of alcoholism in various ethnic groups in the United States. Thus, Hyde and Chisholm (1944) found that the rejection rate for enlistees in the United States army because of chronic alcoholism was higher in the Irish than in any other national group. Confirmatory evidence came from Malzberg (1940) in a study of first hospitalization rates for various diagnostic categories in New York State, and Roberts and Myers (1954) in a prevalence study in New Haven found that the Irish had a far higher proportion under treatment for alcoholism and drug addiction than other national groups.

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Things Get Rolling

10.1093/med/9780197574430.003.0004 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 43-58

Author(s):

Edward Shorter

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

United States ◽

New York ◽

Mental Hospital ◽

New York State ◽

The United States ◽

The State ◽

York State ◽

The World ◽

The University

The take-off of psychopharmacology in the mental-hospital world began in the vast asylum system of New York State in the early 1950s. Henry Brill ordered the state system to introduce chlorpromazine in 1955, which led to the first decrease in the census of the state asylum system in peacetime. Sidney Merlis and Herman Denber implemented chlorpromazine in their hospitals and, with Brill, began a series of publications on the drugs and their efficacy. Pharmacologist and psychiatrist Joel Elkes established the first department of experimental psychiatry in the world in 1951 at the University of Birmingham in England. Finally, the chapter examiunes the historical heft of the National Institute of Mental Health, which in 1953 opened the “intramural” (in-house) research program where much of the research in psychopharmacology done in the United States has occurred.

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‘Forced heirship’ in the United States of America, with particular reference to New York State

Trusts & Trustees ◽

10.1093/tandt/ttv220 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

pp. 103-118

Author(s):

Michael W. Galligan

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

New York ◽

United States Of America ◽

New York State ◽

The United States ◽

York State

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The Epidemiology of bat rabies in New York State, 1988–92

Epidemiology and Infection ◽

10.1017/s0950268800068515 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 113 (3) ◽

pp. 501-511 ◽

Cited By ~ 33

Author(s):

J. E. Childs ◽

C. V. Trimarchi ◽

J. W. Krebs

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

New York ◽

New York State ◽

The United States ◽

Human Rabies ◽

York State ◽

Big Brown Bat ◽

Animal Contact ◽

Bat Rabies ◽

Human Rabies Case

SUMMARYIn 1993 New York and Texas each reported a human rabies case traced to a rare variant of rabies virus found in an uncommon species of bat. This study examined the epidemiology of bat rabies in New York State. Demographic, species, and animal-contact information for bats submitted for rabies testing from 1988–92 was analysed.The prevalence of rabies in 6810 bats was 4·6%. Nearly 90% of the 308 rabid bats identified to species were the common big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus), which comprised 62% of all submissions. Only 25 submissions were silver-haired bats (Lasionycterus noctivagans), the species associated with the two 1993 human cases of rabies, and only two of these bats were positive. Rabies was most prevalent in female bats, in bats submitted because of human or animal contact, and in animals tested during September and October.These results highlight the unusual circumstances surrounding the recent human rabies cases in the United States. A species of bat rarely encountered by humans, and contributing little to the total rabies cases in bats, has been implicated in the majority of the indigenously acquired human rabies cases in the United States. The factors contributing to the transmission of this rare rabies variant remain unclear.

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