2023 CiteScore: 0.7
pISSN: 0044-6025
eISSN: 1735-9694
Editor-in-Chief:
Ahmadreza Dehpour, PharmD, PhD
This journal is a member of, and subscribes to the principles of, the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Vol 1, No 4 (1957)
Original Article(s)
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A case of Tropical Eosinophylia which seems to be an independent disease is described. The patient was admitted because of fever, loss of weight- ~and some respiratory disorders. The blood examination shows a high percentage of eosinophylia in several times. In this view other causes of the blood eosinophylia were eliminated by the laboratory tests. The patient was treated with arsenical drugs and treatment was successful.
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15 cases of delayed post-traumatic haemorrhage of the brain are described. The lucid interval varied from 2 hours to one month. In at least seven cases a predisposing factor had been present. The importance of small angioma as a factor in young people has been emphasized. Clinical and pathological aspects and treatment discussed.
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The authors have reported five cases 01 subconjunctival luxation of the crystalline lens.
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The authors have cited the history of a patient who has a retinal cyst. It is interesting in its clinical form and its ophthalmoscopic appearance.
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The authors have described the fundi of the eyes of a patient whose neck was corn primed by a cord.
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Four cases of sclerodermia have been reported durintwo months. Sclerodermia which seems to he hardness of the skin is actually a general affection that first appears on the skin and has various types: edematous, sclerema for children, and then the forms of patches or drops or bands Or annulars. It is sor t of connective tissue affection and is chiefly observed in women and as the reason for it, is thought to be due to the acute infections and chronic toxics in theory dysendocryno- sympathic that eventually is caused by nervous- mental disturbances and shocks.
Three of the pa t ients were adults and one of them was a 60 years old man. Clinical symptoms were common in all three persons and as a usual it began from the fingers and then it appeared in the face, but in the man it was different and the disease began first from the chest and abdomen and buttucks parts, and although the duration of the illness was more than few months it had not yet affected the limbs. After sometime it affects the muscles and bones and in a few years it expands so that causes a general weakness and eventually results in death.
The treatment is tern porary and differs comparatively in different cases. Vitamin E given with large dosage, Vitamin D2 to keep calcium from running. Bismuth, Penicilline with large dosage and tetracycline given continuously, and at last cortisone and A.C. which have temporary and rapid results -
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The presence of Bejel (Endemic Syphilis) and its area of distribution in Dacht-Mieham South-West of Iran is demonstrated. The studies of the Institute of Parasitology and Malariology have revealed the presence of disease in few villages of this area witha frequency of 23 to 340/0. The clinical symptoms and epidemiological caracteristics of the disease in Iran is described.
