/library/oar/handle/123456789/42490 Tue, 11 Nov 2025 08:53:54 GMT 2025-11-11T08:53:54Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/42546 Title: Heroes, martyrs and victims Abstract: In introducing this article, I feel that I must necessarily pose as an apologist, considering the nature of the subject which I propose to bring to the critical eye of "The Chest-Piece" reader. There is nothing original here, for I have merely undertaken the task of producing a translation from an article in the "Gazzetta Sanitaria" originally contributed by G. Bruno, Director of the Institute of Anatomy of the University of Messina. Two motives have induced me to contribute this translation - the fact that this journal of ours should be supported by more student contributors, and the subject matter which is bound to be of interest to my colleagues. Mon, 01 Jan 1951 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/42546 1951-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/42506 Title: A case of erythermalgia of the extremities Abstract: R.S. male, 42 years, was under treatment for rheumatic heart failure and residual embolic hemiplegia. One day he complained that some time after he had gone to bed, he felt a burning pain in the soles and hands, which kept him awake for more than two hours and then gradually subsided. At that time no importance was attached to the complaint, similar statements being a part of the chronic invalid's daily report. I advised the patient to warm his feet and hands if the pain returned. Mon, 01 Jan 1951 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/42506 1951-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/42498 Title: Diagnosis of abdominal tumours Abstract: The diagnosis in a case of abdominal tumour is made by following the usual procedure of obtaining an accurate history, carrying out a thorough physical examination, and making use of suitable methods of special investigation. Mon, 01 Jan 1951 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/42498 1951-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/42497 Title: Ophthalmology and diabetes Abstract: Diabetes affects the eyes in two ways. 1. The upset in sugar metabolism causes a general disturbance in the water balance of the body and leads to humoral and osmotic changes in the eye. 2. The long-standing presence of sugar in the blood, the failure of the tissues to use sugar and the eventual appearance of acidosis and ketones in the blood, give rise to toxic, and degenerative changes in all tissues, including the ocular structures. Nutrition is interfered with and the eye is more liable to infection and less resistant to sepsis. Mon, 01 Jan 1951 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/42497 1951-01-01T00:00:00Z