Laboratory Methods in Clinical Medicine: Report of Three Cases: (1) Diaphragmatic Eventration: (2) Chronic Nephritis without Hypertension, Cardiac Hypertrophy or Retinal Changes: (3) Unusual Case of Cholelithiasis
Authors: Samuel Levine
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1932)

Article1 February 1932Laboratory Methods in Clinical Medicine(3) Unusual Case of CholelithiasisSAMUEL LEVINE, M.D.SAMUEL LEVINE, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-5-8-1000 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptFrom time to time the statement is made at medical meetings and in the medical press that the introduction of laboratory methods in the practice of medicine has impaired the physician's powers of observation and his clinical sense; and that, as a result of this, his diagnostic abilities have deteriorated and both patient and physician are thereby the losers.It must be admitted that there is some truth in this statement. The keen sense perceptions of the animal, so important in its struggle for existence, are very much diminished in civilized man (Darwin1). In his struggles he has developed tools...References1 DARWIN C: The descent of man and selection in relation to sex, ed. 2, New York, D. Appleton & Co., 1899, p. 34. Google Scholar2 Ibid, p. 32. Google Scholar3 ASSMAN H: Die klinische Röntgendiagnostik der inneren Erkrankungen, ed. 4, Leipzig, F. C. W. Vogel, 1928, p. 438. Google Scholar4 HIRSCH C: Zur klinischen Diagnose der Zwerchfellhernie, München. med. Wchnschr., 1900, xlvii, 996-999. Google Scholar5 LEICHTENSTERN : Zur Diagnose der Hernia diaphragmatica, Berl. klin. Wchnschr., 1874, xi, 497-500; 515-517; 539-542. Google Scholar6 CARMANFINEMAN RDS: The roentgenologic diagnosis of diaphragmatic hernia with a report of seventeen cases, Radiology, 1924, iii, 26-45. CrossrefGoogle Scholar7 SORESI AL: Diaphragmatic hernia: its unsuspected frequency: its diagnosis: technic for radical cure, Ann. Surg., 1919, lxix, 254-270. CrossrefGoogle Scholar8 FUNK EH: The diaphragm; anatomic and physiologic considerations; methods of examination; conditions associated with altered positions of the diaphragm; diaphragmitis, Med. Clin. N. Am., 1921, iv, 1045-1082. Google Scholar9 FUNKMANGES EHWF: Eventration of the diaphragm with report of a case, Am. Jr. Med. Sci., 1921, clxii, 348-352. CrossrefGoogle Scholar10 WALTON HJ: Eventration of the diaphragm, Am. Jr. Roentgenol., 1924, xi, 420-426. Google Scholar11 HITZENBERGER K: Das Zwerchfell, Wien, J. Springer, 1927, p. 152. CrossrefGoogle Scholar12 PEPPER PO: Diseases of the thorax and its viscera, including the heart, lungs and its blood vessels, Progr. Med., 1920, iii, 17-136. Google Scholar13 STIVELMAN BP: False pneumothorax, Jr. Am. Med. Assoc., 1920, lxxiv, 12-14. CrossrefGoogle Scholar14 CLOPTON MB: Eventration of the diaphragm, Ann. Surg., 1923, lxxviii, 154-163. CrossrefGoogle Scholar15 ALLAN W: A case of eventration of the diaphragm, Virginia Med. Month., 1920-1, xlvii, 305-307. Google Scholar16 BANNICK EG: Severe chronic glomerular nephritis without hypertension, cardiac hypertrophy, or retinal changes: report of two cases, Arch. Int. Med., 1927, xxxix, 741-747. CrossrefGoogle Scholar17 BENNETT IT: Nephritis, its problems and treatment, Oxford University Press, 1929, p. 26. Google Scholar18 FISHBERG AM: Hypertension and nephritis, Philadelphia, Lea & Febiger, 1930, p. 370. Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Brooklyn, N. Y.*Received for publication, June 5, 1931. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics 1 February 1932Volume 5, Issue 8Page: 1000-1009KeywordsClinical laboratoriesDiagnostic medicinePerceptionResearch laboratories ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 February 1932 PDF downloadLoading ...