Fig. 7.1 Experimental myopia induced by monocular lid fusion of monkey eyes demonstrates the distension of the postequatorial hemisphere of the eye [1] 7.2 Myopic Changes in Cornea Intraocular pressure…
(1) Department of Medicine, Baystate Health, Springfield, MA, USA Abstract Heading almost due west from London, the train passes city outskirts and urban fringe housing before the landscape becomes…
(1) Department of Medicine, Baystate Health, Springfield, MA, USA Abstract When Dr. Martin Randolph came to Danbury, a small city in the southwestern corner of Connecticut, in 1948, the…
(1) Department of Medicine, Baystate Health, Springfield, MA, USA Abstract The first, documented 100 years of cerebrospinal meningitis, during which the clinical course and worldwide occurrence of diseases were…
(1) Department of Medicine, Baystate Health, Springfield, MA, USA Abstract As Americans were becoming progressively more deeply involved in Vietnam, first as “advisors” but subsequently in the mid-1960s as…
(1) Department of Medicine, Baystate Health, Springfield, MA, USA Abstract Bacterial infections, as we have seen, remained a cause of significant morbidity and mortality well into the first half…
(1) Department of Medicine, Baystate Health, Springfield, MA, USA Abstract As human civilizations began to flourish, so did the infectious diseases that afflicted them. Over time, an understanding of…
(1) Department of Medicine, Baystate Health, Springfield, MA, USA Abstract Each year millions of Muslims make their way to Mecca, the birthplace of Islam’s prophet Muhammad and site of…
(1) Department of Medicine, Baystate Health, Springfield, MA, USA Abstract “Flexner’s serum” had a significant and dramatic impact on the uniformly poor prognosis associated with meningococcal meningitis in the…
