SELECTED Cogswell, Surg.
H. D., and 4s: 444, 1940.
Shirley,
Clayton:
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ABSTRACTS Treatment
of Varicose
Veins.
Am. J.
The technique of combined ligation and injection in treatment for varicose veins which has been most successful in the experience of the authors is presented, along with a brief description of the tests which they consider are useful in preliminary evaluation of the circulation of the lower extremities. SCHWARTZ.
Smithwick, Reginald H. : The Rationale and Technic of Sympathectomy for the Relief of Vascular Spasm of the Extremities. New England J. Med. 222: 699, 1940. The vascular of the clinical
rationale of sympathetic denervation of the extremities for the relief of spasm of the extremities is discussed. Detailed ‘descriptions are given surgical techniques which have been found by the author to give the best results in the case of both the upper and the lower extremities. SCHWARTZ.
Cogswell, H. D., and Thomas, C. A.: Treatment of Traumatic Thrombosis of the Bra&al Artery by Intermittent Venous Occlusion. J. A. M. A. 114: 1863, 1940. A thirty-nine-year-old man received a crushing ing in thrombosis of the brachial artery. This venous occlusion, with good results.
injury to his right was treated with
arm, resultintermittent MCGOVERN.
Perlow, Samuel: Prostigmine in the Treatment turbances. J. A. M. A. 114: 1991, 1940.
of Periplheral
Circulatory
Dis-
The results in thirty-one cases of peripheral circulatory disturbance indicate that prostigmine is an excellent vasodilator and as such is a useful adjunct in the treatment of peripheral circulatory disturbances in which vasospasm is a factor. The patients treated included those with thromboan&itis obliterans, arteriosclerosis, Raynaud’s disease, acrocyanosis, and acute vascular occlusions. .&ostigmine was given orally in doses of 7.5 milligrams three times daily. Some patients required 15 milligrams three times daily. NAIDE.
Grollman, Arthur, Harrison, T. R., and Williams, J. R., Jr.: Experimental Hypertension. J. Pharmacol. and Exper. Therap. The effect of sodium nitrite, Allium sativum, acetyl-P-methylcholine, of rats rendered hypertensive by extract reduced the blood pressure tensive” substances being inactive tively large amounts of sodium
Therapeutics 69:
of
76, 1940.
potassium thiocyanate, erythrol tetranitrate, and renal extract on the blood pressures operative means was inv’estigated. Only renal to normal levels, all the #other so-called “hypein this respect. The administration of relachloride did not markedly elevate the blood
pressure. SCHWARTZ.