Use a search engine such as Alta Vista , Lycos , or Webcrawler to search for the journal title. If the search engine provides a mechanism to search for a phrase rather than individual words use that option. The words from a journal title may be found at many biomedical sites and you may have many sites to check for your journal. Many search engines allow you to include a phrase or string of words in quotes in order to find the words adjacent to each other. Once you know the issue volume and date, you can connect to the journal's site to retrieve the article.
Few sites have journal issues going back more than two or three years.
Some publishers and individual journals provide search engines for their journal or group of journals. These are useful if you expect to find the article in that journal or group of journals. The AMA and Elsevier provide searches of their journals. In Netscape you can use the find feature to find a particular word or phrase within a displayed page or document. This is changing and decisions on indexing are being based more on content than format.