John M Dorman

• Stanford University

The Haystack Movement began at Williams College in 1805, occasioning the spread of American missions throughout the world. A half century later, two graduates of nearby Amherst College, Edward Hitchcock Jr and Daniel Bliss, laid the foundations for college health services in this country and for mission work and education in the Middle East. The in...

With this VGP News column, I conclude my 3.5 years as VGP Editor of Eos and turn the job over to William H. Casey. As a convenience to our readers, the address to which your cards and letters should be sent remains the same. But while the editor's abode is unchanged, the personal scientific focus of the editor changes from magma to muck. Bill conc...

Great concern is often expressed over the possibility of contagion among athletes in competitive sports, particularly sports with much person-to-person contact. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is only the most notorious of infectious agents; potentially, other viruses, bacteria, and even fungi may be involved. Because of the concern, however, sp...

Emergency postcoital treatment-the morning-after pill-has been used on college campuses for about 20 years, but it is little used in other populations. Some of the possible reasons for its sparse use, including lack of awareness, the fact that the oral contraceptives have not been approved for this use, the fear of liability, and ethical considerat...

The word hygiene originally defined a comprehensive plan for preserving individual and community health in all its dimensions. In the latter half of the 19th century, Dr Edward Hitchcock Jr established a system of hygiene at Amherst College that became the model for campus hygiene programs. Dr Thomas A. Storey of Stanford University, an advocate of...

To the Editor. —I would like to call attention to two items in the recent article1 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on infectious diseases in competitive sports that deserve further amplification.Two newspaper articles are cited (references 58 and 59) about the 1989 measles outbreak at Siena College in New York State. These arti...

“Primary Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Diseases; A Primer for Clinicians,” KATHERINE M. STONE, et al. With the advent of sexually transmitted infections for which curative therapy is not available, primary prevention has assumed greater importance. The spectrum of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) has broadened, and clinicians need to under...

From 1963 to 1967 both live and inactivated, measles vaccines were in use, whereas from 1968, only the live vaccine has been used and it is now required in most states as a condition for elementary school entry. It is assumed that before 1967, children were exposed to wild-type measles virus. Consequently, it is those born between 1957 and 1967 who...

“Caffeine as an Analgesic Adjuvant,” EUGENE M. LASKA, et al. Thirty clinical studies involving more than 10,000 patients conducted during the last 20 years have been analyzed to assess the value of caffeine as an analgesic adjuvant. Although most studies included patients with postpartum uterine cramping or episiotomy pain, some involved patients w...

Lymphangitis has traditionally been considered a hallmark of bacterial infection. Two cases of lymphangitis due to herpes simplex are presented. The dermatology literature is briefly reviewed. Herpetic lymphangitis abates spontaneously without the use of antibiotics. Management of dermatologic herpes is also considered.

The present study is a follow up to a previous article on unplanned pregnancies and contraceptive practices among Stanford University students. Students with positive pregnancy tests were asked to fill out a questionnaire with regard to contraceptive utilization. Comparison was made to a control population. Use of the diaphragm continues to rise an...

To the Editor.— I was interested to read of the recent association by Cleary et al (243:148, 1980) of acute cerebellar ataxia with Epstein-Barr virus infection. Their initial listing of neurological complications of infectious mononucleosis omits Reye's syndrome, a complication that we reported several years ago in the pediatric literature.1 Altho...

University overnight infirmary admissions for drug abuse were reviewed over the 2-year periods 1968--1970 and 1973--1975. Hallucinogen abuse diminished over the years studied while alcohol abuse increased. Marijuana abuse was essentially unchanged. Diazepam overdosage generally replaced barbiturate overdosage, while aspirin remained the most common...

Sir.—I was interested to see in the Journal (132:78-86, 1978) the recent review of infectious mononucleosis by Rapp and Hewetson. A few years ago in the Journal (128:239-243, 1974), we reported a fatal case of infectious mononucleosis in a child who was an exception to some of the remarks made by Rapp and Hewetson. Our patient was only 2 years old...