The Natural History of Hydrocephalus

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1959 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 313-313
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Surgical Therapy ◽  
History Of ◽  
Arrested Hydrocephalus ◽  
Made In

A series of 182 unselected and unoperated cases of hydrocephalus, observed by one individual during a period of 20 years, were followed in an effort to determine the natural history of hydrocephalus. At the time of this report, 89 of the patients had died and 81 arrested spontaneously and the remaining 12 were either progressive or could not be traced. In most cases the hydrocephalus was acquired either through infection or perinatal trauma and anoxia. The children were all under the age of 13 years and hydrocephalus was first observed to develop usually by 6 months of age. The survivors with arrested hydrocephalus frequently had other physical handicaps in addition to the enlargement of the head. The intelligence of the survivors was tested and 75% of those with spontaneous arrest were educable and the I.Q. of 57% was 85 or above. The author points out that the findings in this survey are in contrast to the statements generally made in the literature: that the possibility of spontaneous arrest and preservation of a degree of intelligence permitting education is extremely poor. The bearing of the findings on the evaluation of the results of surgical therapy are discussed.

scholarly journals Observations upon the Natural History of Epidemic Diarrhoea

1910 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 602-777 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. H. Peters
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Health Department ◽  
The Other ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Town ◽  
Made In

The following observations upon the Natural History of Epidemic Diarrhoea were made in Mansfield during the summer and autumn of 1908. The fact that at the time the writer was engaged in preparing a paper—to which the present paper is to some extent complementary—upon the epidemiological relations of season and disease, lent special interest to the enquiries regularly made from the Health Department of this town into the circumstances attending fatal attacks of diarrhoea. Early in the season a more than usually extensive enquiry was made into one of these fatal attacks in an area where an outbreak of diarrhoea appeared to be spreading outwards from a group of old privy-middens. To test how far the condemnation of the latter was justifiable another area was taken on the other side of the town, where the houses were newly built and provided exclusively with water-closets; and records, collected by house-to-house visitation, were obtained of all cases of epidemic diarrhoea, whether non-fatal or otherwise, occurring in these localities. The enquiries thus begun were afterwards extended so as to embrace two fairly large districts, a chance of doing this being provided by the opportune postponement of the addition to the department of certain work of inspection which had been impending at the beginning of the summer. These districts were several times revisited and scattered observations were also made throughout the other parts of the town. During 1909, while there was no opportunity of making extended observations, there were valuable opportunities during the course of the routine inspections of the summer of testing and re-testing the principal results obtained during 1908.

Natural History of Unstable Angina with Medical or Surgical Therapy

CHEST Journal ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 70 (5) ◽  
pp. 596-605 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos A. Bertolasi ◽  
Jorge E. Tronge ◽  
Miguel A. Riccitelli ◽  
Rosa Maria Villamayor ◽  
Ezio Zuffardi
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Unstable Angina ◽  
Surgical Therapy ◽  
History Of

The Importance of Being Florentine: A Journey around the World for Wax Anatomical Venuses

Nuncius ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Paolo de Ceglia
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Natural History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Brand Name ◽  
Anatomical Models ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
19Th Century History ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Made In

AbstractThis article reconstructs the 19th century history of events regarding a few female wax anatomical models made in Florence. More or less faithful copies of those housed in Florence's Museum of Physics and Natural History, these models were destined for display in temporary exhibitions. In their travels through Europe and the United States, they transformed the expression "Florentine Venus" into a sort of brand name used to label and offer respectability to pieces of widely varying quality.

Fossil Birds

The Geologist ◽  
1864 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-24
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Medullary Cavity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Fossil Birds ◽  
History Of ◽  
Made In

Rozier says, in his ‘Journal de Physique,’ 1782, page 174, that “mention is made in the Catalogue of Davila of a tibia and of a beak imprinted on two different stones.” If there be any other notice in Davila than the passages we have quoted, it has escaped our search.In 1782, M. Robert de Paul de Lamanon gave, in the Abbé Rozier's ‘Journal de Physique’ (vol. xx. p. 174), an excellent summary of what was then known of Ornithic fossils. After noticing the accounts in Albertus Magnus and other old authors, he goes onto say in his ‘Description de Divers Fossiles trouvés dans les carrières de Montmartre, près Paris, et vues générales sur la formation des Pierres gypseuses,' “M. Rouelle, according to M. Darcet, found in the plaster quarries of Montmartre parts of a bird separated one from the other. I(Lamanon) have seen also in the Cabinet of Natural History of Bordeaux, some bones that it has been attempted to refer to birds; they were found by the Abbé Desbiey in the quarries of Léognan, which are at two leagues from this capital. We can only assert, however, that these isolated bones may have belonged to birds, on the ground that their medullary cavity is very large relatively to their thickness.

scholarly journals ON THE NATURAL HISTORY OF GALL INSECTS

1878 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 85-94
Author(s):  
H. Hagen
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Careful Study ◽  
Parthenogenetic Species ◽  
History Of ◽  
Important Progress ◽  
Made In

The natural history of the interesting gall insects is still somewhat mysterious. A large number of observations have been made here and in Europe by prominent Entomologists; nevertheless, a careful study of the most detailed papers always gives the impression that something is still wanting to explain the various facts related by the authors. Among the Hymenopterous gall insects important progress was made in the discovery by the late B. Walsh of the dimorphism of C. q. spongifica and C. q. aciculata, the latter one a parthenogenetic species. But even here new observations are wanted to fill some gaps in the history of those species. Mr. W. F. Bassett, of Waterbury, Conn., draws my attention to the fact that in a letter in the Proc. Entom. Soc. Lond., April, 1873, p. xv., he “did state most emphatically his belief that all one-gendered gall flies were the alternate of a two-gendered brood from galls of a different form,”

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