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502 NOR TH CAROLINA MEDICAL JOURNAL September, 1955 journals are either using, or plan to use In-terlingua translations of summaries of their original articles: American Heart Journal, American Journal of the Medical Sciences, American Journal of Psychotherapy, Annals of Internal Medicine, Blood, Circulation, Clinical Orthopedics, Archivos Peruanos de Patologia y Clinica, Diabetes, Journal of Dental Medicine, Pediatrics and the Quarterly Bulletin of the Seaview Hospital. Numerous other journals in this country and in Europe and South America appear to be interested. "Reviewing the above, it seems to us that Interlingua has found a useful place in the medical journals of the western world. We think it is here to stay. How far it will go to recapture the function which Latin exercised in Harvey's day remains to be seen. We at least seem to have a working model of a new form of Latin which will aid in the circulation of medical information. American doctors would welcome the introduction of Interlingua summaries in European and South American Medical Journals.,, CORTISONE VERSUS ASPIRIN The first article in the British Medical Journal for September 17 is an intriguing comparison of cortisone and aspirin in the treatment of early rheumatoid arthritis. It is the second report of the Joint Committee of the Medical Research Council ancl Nuffield Foundation. The first report(1) gave the first year's experience of this committee with 61 adult patients admitted to six medical centers in England and Scotland. Thirty were selected at random for treatment with cortisone, 31 with aspirin. Three in the aspirin group were lost sight of, but the remaining 28 and the 30 cortisone-treated patients have been followed ever since. At the end of the first year the results attained in the two groups were almost identical. At the end of the second year, the two groups continued to show even more uniformity in the results attained. The Committee concludes that "At the end of two years, ... it appears that for practical purposes there has been remarkably little to choose between cortisone and aspirin in the management of this group of patients." The two reports of this committee repre- sent a vast amount of intelligent study by experts of the relative merits of the old standby aspirin, and the comparative newcomer, cortisone. Certainly the results obtained should give pause to those who would abandon a time-tried, relatively safe, and quite cheap remedy for an admittedly experimental, potentially dangerous, and expensive new product. The editor of the British Medical Journal comments: All specifics introduced for its treatment so far have passed through three stages: the stage of enthusiastic welcome, the longer stage of practical large-scale use and gradual waning of enthusiasm, and then a final phase where such measures are used really only for want of anything better and until the next new substance comes along. Thus, although vaccine treatment superseded spa treatment and mud packs, gold treatment later superseded vaccines, and cortisone superseded gold, to-day throughout the world cortisone, vaccine, gold, aspirin, and physiotherapy are used side by side. This process is largely one of fashion: objective assessment demands more time and care than can easily be spared by the busy practitioner. Thus a heavy responsibility rests with those to whom he looks for guidance. 1. Brit. M. J. 1 : 1223, 1951. :jc 9jc jj: HORDERISMS One of the world's greatest physicians was the late Lord Horder of England. Although he was physician to the royal family, he never lost the common touch. In a number of successive issues the British Medical Journal has had material about this great man. It is doubtful if it ever published more tributes from more men in all walks of life than were paid Lord Horder. One of his former house physicians recalled a number of his wise and witty sayings, which became known as "Horderisms." These are worth passing on to readers of this Journal. "Make a friend of your doctor, but don't make a doctor of your friend." "I would treat Beelzebub himself if he came into my consulting-room." "The preservation of health . . . depends on temperance and a quiet mind." "It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life. It is not his duty to prolong the act of dying." "Someone must preserve his poise, and, if the clinician does not, no one does." "Successful medicine is understanding touched with sympathy." On his eighty-third birthday he said: "The more I get to know men the more I like them, for to understand them is to love them."
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-17: North Carolina Medical Journal [1940-Present] |
Document Title | North Carolina Medical Journal [1940-Present] |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- Periodicals.; Physicians -- North Carolina -- Directory.; Societies, Medical -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Description | Includes Transactions of the Society, -1960; 1961- , Transactions issued separately, bound in.; Includes Transactions of the auxiliary to the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina and Proceedings of the North Carolina Public Health Association. Official organ of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, 1940-May 1972; of the North Carolina Medical Society, June 1972-. Vols. for 1940-May 1972 published by the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina; June 1972- by the North Carolina Medical Society. |
Contributor | Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. Transactions.; Medical Society of the State of North Carolina.; North Carolina Medical Society.; North Carolina Medical Society. Transactions.; North Carolina Public Health Association. Proceedings. |
Publisher | [Winston-Salem] : North Carolina Medical Society [etc.], 1940- |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1955 |
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Language | English |
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Document Title | North Carolina Medical Journal [1940-Present] |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- Periodicals.; Physicians -- North Carolina -- Directory.; Societies, Medical -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Description | Includes Transactions of the Society, -1960; 1961- , Transactions issued separately, bound in.; Includes Transactions of the auxiliary to the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina and Proceedings of the North Carolina Public Health Association. Official organ of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, 1940-May 1972; of the North Carolina Medical Society, June 1972-. Vols. for 1940-May 1972 published by the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina; June 1972- by the North Carolina Medical Society. |
Contributor | Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. Transactions.; Medical Society of the State of North Carolina.; North Carolina Medical Society.; North Carolina Medical Society. Transactions.; North Carolina Public Health Association. Proceedings. |
Publisher | [Winston-Salem] : North Carolina Medical Society [etc.], 1940- |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1955 |
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Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Volume Number | 16 |
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Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | 502 NOR TH CAROLINA MEDICAL JOURNAL September, 1955 journals are either using, or plan to use In-terlingua translations of summaries of their original articles: American Heart Journal, American Journal of the Medical Sciences, American Journal of Psychotherapy, Annals of Internal Medicine, Blood, Circulation, Clinical Orthopedics, Archivos Peruanos de Patologia y Clinica, Diabetes, Journal of Dental Medicine, Pediatrics and the Quarterly Bulletin of the Seaview Hospital. Numerous other journals in this country and in Europe and South America appear to be interested. "Reviewing the above, it seems to us that Interlingua has found a useful place in the medical journals of the western world. We think it is here to stay. How far it will go to recapture the function which Latin exercised in Harvey's day remains to be seen. We at least seem to have a working model of a new form of Latin which will aid in the circulation of medical information. American doctors would welcome the introduction of Interlingua summaries in European and South American Medical Journals.,, CORTISONE VERSUS ASPIRIN The first article in the British Medical Journal for September 17 is an intriguing comparison of cortisone and aspirin in the treatment of early rheumatoid arthritis. It is the second report of the Joint Committee of the Medical Research Council ancl Nuffield Foundation. The first report(1) gave the first year's experience of this committee with 61 adult patients admitted to six medical centers in England and Scotland. Thirty were selected at random for treatment with cortisone, 31 with aspirin. Three in the aspirin group were lost sight of, but the remaining 28 and the 30 cortisone-treated patients have been followed ever since. At the end of the first year the results attained in the two groups were almost identical. At the end of the second year, the two groups continued to show even more uniformity in the results attained. The Committee concludes that "At the end of two years, ... it appears that for practical purposes there has been remarkably little to choose between cortisone and aspirin in the management of this group of patients." The two reports of this committee repre- sent a vast amount of intelligent study by experts of the relative merits of the old standby aspirin, and the comparative newcomer, cortisone. Certainly the results obtained should give pause to those who would abandon a time-tried, relatively safe, and quite cheap remedy for an admittedly experimental, potentially dangerous, and expensive new product. The editor of the British Medical Journal comments: All specifics introduced for its treatment so far have passed through three stages: the stage of enthusiastic welcome, the longer stage of practical large-scale use and gradual waning of enthusiasm, and then a final phase where such measures are used really only for want of anything better and until the next new substance comes along. Thus, although vaccine treatment superseded spa treatment and mud packs, gold treatment later superseded vaccines, and cortisone superseded gold, to-day throughout the world cortisone, vaccine, gold, aspirin, and physiotherapy are used side by side. This process is largely one of fashion: objective assessment demands more time and care than can easily be spared by the busy practitioner. Thus a heavy responsibility rests with those to whom he looks for guidance. 1. Brit. M. J. 1 : 1223, 1951. :jc 9jc jj: HORDERISMS One of the world's greatest physicians was the late Lord Horder of England. Although he was physician to the royal family, he never lost the common touch. In a number of successive issues the British Medical Journal has had material about this great man. It is doubtful if it ever published more tributes from more men in all walks of life than were paid Lord Horder. One of his former house physicians recalled a number of his wise and witty sayings, which became known as "Horderisms." These are worth passing on to readers of this Journal. "Make a friend of your doctor, but don't make a doctor of your friend." "I would treat Beelzebub himself if he came into my consulting-room." "The preservation of health . . . depends on temperance and a quiet mind." "It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life. It is not his duty to prolong the act of dying." "Someone must preserve his poise, and, if the clinician does not, no one does." "Successful medicine is understanding touched with sympathy." On his eighty-third birthday he said: "The more I get to know men the more I like them, for to understand them is to love them." |
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