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The Air Surgeon’s Bulletin          September 1944    28 pages

Vol. 1 No. 9

Cover: A-13 Pressure Demand Mask
Official Photo U.S. Army Air Forces

Articles in this Issue:

Pressure Breathing
     By Lt. Col. A. P. Gagge, AC, and Capt. S. C. Allen, AC
Aero Medical Laboratory, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio

Prophylactic
     By Professional Division Office of The Air Surgeon

Use of the Sulfonamicles

Notes from a Flight Surgeon in China
     By Capt. Joseph C. Elia, MC Fourteenth Air Force

Crash-Rescue Procedures
     By Lt. Col. Colvem D. Henry, MC* and Lt Henry L. Coble, AC
Lakeland Army Air Field, Florida

Improvised Medical Chests For Crash Ambulances
     By Maj. Roger G. Magruder, MC and Maj. Glen K. Folger, MC, Sheppard Field, Texas

The Editor’s Page
The Air Surgeon’s Letter

Psychiatry of Orthopedic Problems
     By Maj. Charles IV. Miller, Jr.
MC, San Antonio Aviation Cadet Center, Texas

Helicopter in Air Evacuation
     By Maj. D. M. Clark, MC
Aero Medical Laboratory Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio

Medical Trailer
     By Lt. Col. Ramsay B. Thomas, MC, Key Field, Meridian
Mississippi, and Maj. Thomas’. H. Smith, MC,
Esler Field, Alexandria, Louisiana

Acute And Chronic
Suprapatellar Tenosynovitis and Fascitis in Pilots of Heavy Bombers
     By Capt. William II. Conway, MC, Fifteenth Air Force

Bombardier’s Palsy
     By Capt. George J. Laird, MC and Capt. M. J. Mueller, MC
Carlsbad Army Air Field New Mexico

An Anoxia Accident in the 8th Air Force
     By Capt. Gordon W. Wormley, MC, Eighth Air Force

Report of Accidents from Anoxia
     By Capt. H. B. Burchell, MC, School of Aviation Medicine, Randolph Field, Texas

Bed Frame & Litter for Handling Fracture of the Spine
     By Maj. Thomas H. Clark, MC, Tonopah Army Air Field, Nevada

Litter Loading Device
     By Lt. Col. John M. Collins, MC
Hq AAF, Air Transport Command, Washington, D.C.
(Major Leslie L. Blau, Mr. John F. Warren)

RAF Medical Services and Their Contribution to the War Effort

Abstracts

The Prophylaxis And Therapeusis Of Clostridial Infections (Gas Gangrene)
     By A. II. Dowdy, R. L. Sewell, and J. G. Vincent
Nat. Research Council, Div. of Med. Sci.,
Com. on Av. Med., Report No. 299 (6 May) 1944

Inhibition Of Growth Of Typhus Rickettsiae In The Yolk Sac By Penicillin
     By D. Greiff
Proc. Soc. Exper. Biol. & Med. 55:116-9 (Feb.) 1944

Production of Potent Inactivated Vaccines with Ultraviolet Irradiation
III. An Abbreviated Preliminary Report on a Completely Inactivated Poliomyelitis Vaccine (Lansing Strain Virus) in Mice
     By A. Milzer, F. Oppenheimer, and S. O. Levinson J.A.M.A. 125:704-5 ( 8 Jul.) 1944

Meningococcic Conjunctivitis
     By F. H. Theodore and P. F. Kost
Arch, of Ophth. 31:245-7 (Mar.) 1944

Retained Missiles in the Buttocks and Gas Gangrene
     By H. Brandt
Deut. Militararzt 8:295-7 (May) 1943
Abs. in Bull, of War Med. 4:375-6 (Mar.) 1944

Experiences in The Systemic Administration of Penicillin
     By IL V. Morgan, R. V. Christie, and I . A. Roxburgh
Brit. M. J. 1:515-6 (15 Apr.) 1944
Abs. in Med. J. Abs. 4:912 (June) 1944

Statistically Valid Tests of Drugs and Other Factors Affecting the Resistance of Mice to Acceleration
     By H. Lamport, E. C. Hoff, and L. P. Herrington
Nat. Research Council, Div. of Med. Sci.,
Com. on Av. Med., Report No. 298
(15 Mar.) 1944

Effects of Exercise with Positive Pressure Breathing and Anoxia
     By A. L. Barack, W. L. Bloom, M. Eckman, C. Fox, C. C. Rumsey, and E. Somkin
Nat. Research Council, Div. of Med. Sci.,
Com. on Av. Med., Report No. 293
(31 Mar.) 1944

Studies of Positive Pressure Breathing
     By A. L. Barach, W. L. Bloom, M. Eckman C. Rule, and C. C. Rumsey
Nat. Research Council, Div. of Med. Sci.,
Com. on Av. Med., Report No. 280
(14 Feb.) 1944

“Dumbo” Operations: Air-Sea Rescue
Burned News Letter. Aviation Supplement
(26 May) 1944

Method of Application of Drugs to the Nasal Mucosa
     By D. B. Buller and A. C. Ivy
Arch. Otolaryng. 39:109-23 (Feb.) 1944

Fulminating Meningococcic Infection With Bilateral Massive Adrenal Hemorrhage
     By H. S. Martland
Arch. Path. 37:147-58 (Feb.) 1944

The Bulletin Board

     Standards of Physical Examination During Mobilization

     Reports of Injuries to Military Personnel

     Field Artillery—Supervision of Physical Condition of Liaison Pilots

     Neurotropic Virus Diseases