LIEUTENANT COMMANDER W. M. KERR, MEDICAL CORPS, U. S. NAVY Compiled and published under authority of Naval Appropriation Act WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1923. NAVY DEPARTMENT, Washington, March 20, 1907. This UNITED STATES NAVAL MEDICAL BULLETIN is published by direction of the department for the timely information of the Medi cal and Hospital Corps of the Navy. TRUMAN H. NEWBERRY, Acting Secretary. Owing to the exhaustion of certain numbers of the BULLETIN and the frequent demands from libraries, etc., for copies to complete their files, the return of any of the following issues will be greatly appreciated: Volume VII, No. 2, April, 1913. Volume VIII, No. 1, January, 1914. Volume VIII, No. 3, July, 1914. Volume VIII, No. 4, October, 1914. Volume X, No. 1, January, 1916. Volume XI, No. 4, October, 1917. Volume XII, No. 1, January, 1918. Volume XII, No. 3, July, 1918. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE OF THE BULLETIN. Subscriptions should be sent to Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. Yearly subscription, beginning January 1, $1.50; for foreign subscription add $1.00 for postage. Single numbers, domestic, 15 cents; foreign, 24 cents, which includes foreign postage. Exchange of publications will be extended to medical and scientific organizations, societies, laboratories, and journals. Communications on this subject should be addressed to the Surgeon General, United States Navy, Washington, D. C. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Page. The rat problem in Java-On bismuth in the treatment of syph- ilis-" Methanol "-Maj. Gen. Sir William Boog Leishman- Royal naval hospital at Haslar-" The Anatomical Delinea- tions of Vesalius "-The selection of hospital corpsmen- Pyrene gas intoxication-Silver-impregnation method of dif- ferentiating spirochaetes-Bayer "205"-Use of defecation reflex-Care in the use of the X ray for diagnosis-The char- PREFACE. The UNITED STATES NAVAL MEDICAL BULLETIN was first issued in April, 1907, as a means of supplying medical officers of the United States Navy with information regarding the advances which are continually being made in the medical sciences, and as a medium for the publication of accounts of special researches, observations, or experiences of individual medical officers. It is the aim of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery to furnish in each issue special articles relating to naval medicine, descriptions of suggested devices, clinical notes on interesting cases, abstracts of current medical literature of special prefessional interests to the naval medical officer, reports from various sources, historical essays, notes and comments on topics of medical interest, and reviews or notices of the latest published medical books. The bureau extends an invitation to all medical officers to prepare and forward, with a view to publication, contributions on subjects of interest to naval medical officers. In order that each service contributor may receive due credit for his efforts in preparing matter for the BULLETIN of distinct originality and special merit, the Surgeon General of the Navy will send a letter of commendation to authors of papers of conspicuous merit and will recommend that copies of such letters be made a part of the official record of the officers concerned. The bureau does not necessarily undertake to indorse all views or opinions which may be expressed in the pages of this publication. E. R. STITT, Surgeon General United States Navy. V |