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The two principal factors in precipitation of functional disturbance are quality of individual and quantity of trauma.An erroneous diagnosis of physical illness followed by medical or surgical treatment tends to fix the neurotic state, but the greatest harm occurs when a patient with a conversion reaction dies with an untreated malignant disease.Successful management of functional gastrointestinal disturbance encompasses dietetic therapy, pharmacologic aids, creation of insight, correction of rigid states, reeducation, and adjunctive measures.The comparative effectiveness of various tranquilizers and antidepressants is reviewed, and experience with the nonbarbiturate sedative thalidomide is presented.

(1949). A Survey of Teachers' Needs in Health Education, Physical Education, and Recreation. Research Quarterly. American Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation: Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 417-423.

The amebicidal efficiency of certain antibiotic drugs has been established, but no single antibiotic agent has yet proved to be completely curative, nor have the therapeutic achievements even exceeded those attainable with nonantibiotic amebicides. With the introduction of each protozoicidal antibiotic drug, initial therapeutic acclamation has been enthusiastic. Time and further clinical experience have, in many instances, depreciated their status. The incidence of recurrences and objectionable side effects has prevented most antibiotic agents, when used alone, from being “ideal” amebicides. Analysis of the extremes in therapeutic achievement reveals variance in susceptibility of parasitic strain and in severity of the disease, as well as inconsistency in mode of administration and inadequacy and lack of uniformity in follow-up examinations. Acquired alteration in bacterial and amebic sensitivity may also be hypothesized. Critical comparative review suggests that the antibiotic drugs have not impressively reduced the rate of recurrence below that reported for nonantibiotic amebicides.

(1940). The Relation of Height and Weight Measurements to Intelligence and to Dominance-Submission among a Group of College Freshmen. Research Quarterly. American Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation: Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 53-59.

We should like to express our appreciation to Drs. T. Tilghman Herring and Reynold Pagzer who performed the surgical procedures

1. Conservative medical therapy is the procedure of choice in treating bleeding ulcers. 2. Reservation should be practiced in accepting Meulengracht’s immediate feeding of patients with active bleeding. 3. Aluminum hydroxide offers an approach to attaining physiological control of a bleeding ulcer. It has a favorable place in our case report. 4. Transfusions by the direct method can be given safely without worry over elevated venous pressure, arterial pressure or any systemic reaction of significance. 5. Vitamins have an undetermined position in bleeding ulcer therapy. 6. We would not feed our bleeding ulcer cases immediately but would institute continuous aluminum hydroxide drip, a dietary regimen to be started when hemorrhage had ceased and sufficient time had elapsed for clot fibrosis. We feel that parenteral fluids should be given freely to maintain nutrition, water balance, circulating volume and to combat acidosis. Until proven otherwise synthetic Vitamin C will be considered a valuable adjunct to our regimen.

Human infection with Endamoeba histolytica or, more rarely, with Dient­ amoeba fragilis may produce manifestations of amebiasis. From a clinical point of view, the disease states eneountered in our general population and in the "ear­ rier," or asymptomatic cyst passer, are of import in a study of the propagation of the disease. Amebiasis as it existed in the past or as it is known in tropical areas, and the severe amebic states occurring in nutritionally depleted persons and in victims of prison compounds, are not pertinent to the present discussion. However, the prevalence of the disease, the occurrence of recent epidemics, ameba phobia , diagnostic confusion, reports of intractability and therapeutic advances all present problems that demand elucidation in the light of our present knowledge of the disease. Toward this end, the questions of most critieal interest and authoritative replies thereto will be presented instead of a didactie review of the subject. 1. Q. How prevalent is alllebiasis, and of what significance are these reports of incidence insofar as alllebic dysentery and alllebic cOlllplica­ tions are concerned?