Gastrointestinal reaction to the emotions

emus. OH the clinical side there is no violent OIW~, and for some clays oh,: degree of pain is in sharp contrast with the absence of objective symptoms. Finally there are tumefaction, loosenin, 0’ of teeth and the formation of multiple fist,ulas. From the operative side prompt intel,vcntion will limit the process, this consisting of a curettage of the cavity. In this form of osteomyelitis there is evidently no possibility of sequestrum formation. The latter we may expect in the acute type of osteomyelitis, but in this subacute form we see, instead, proliferation in the connective tissue and rarefaction of bone. The ;adiodiagnosis of this condition is chiefly negative at first and hence of no va,lne for early recognition. There may be transitions between the acute and xnbacutc forms, for small sequestr-a may be found in the contents of the cavity. Nut&ion

astrointSestinal

and Pediatrics

Beact,ion to the Emotions.

C. ‘IV. heders,

Arch.

Int. Med.,

Aug., 1928, xiii, 2. It has been generally accepted by ph~siolopists and by psychologists that emotions such as anger, fear, pain; horror and repulsion, as well as anxiety, tiespondencp a,nd despair cause an inhibition of excretion and mobility, and this I*eaction occurs while the object arousing the emotion is still in eonsciousnew. The author states that these emotions by liberating an excess of epinephpin into the blood stream, or by acting on the sympathetic ga.nglions liberate sugar from the liver cells into the blood stream to such an extent as to cause transient glycosuria. However, from his study on 300 women patients with psychosis the author believes that chronic emotionalism and morbid moods through their protract,ion and summation have less and less effect on visceral functions but work their greatest harm at the higher levels.

X-Ray Action on the Growth and on the Internal Kaotoshi

Hoshi, J. Orient.

rgans of Newborn

rabbit,

Xed., Nov., 1928, ix, 5.

Working in Darien General IIospital, Darien, South Manchuria, the author endeavors to ascertain the probable effects on the growth of newborn rabbits of a medium quantity of x-ray applied to their bodies. His conclusions show that the x-ray obstructs the growth in 64 per cent of these rabbits. The thyroid is slightly damaged by x-ray radiation.

alcium Requirement

and Diet During

Growth.

ff. C. Sherman,

Kew Pork

State J. Med., Feb. 1, 1929, xxix, 3. Sherman believes that one quart of milk a day is needed in addition to other foods if children between the ages of three and thirteen years are to fulfill their calcium requirement. of one gram daily. No other food, vegetables for example, seems satisfactory as a substitute for the supply of available calcium for the body. If the child will not take milk as such, the author suggests that it be used in the preparation of the child’s other foods.