Streptomycin in whooping cough

Three cases of whooping cough with broncho-pneumonia complication are presented in which streptomycin therapy was successful after a combined penicillin and sulfadiazine treatment had proved ineffective. (Summary)

Amebiasis in children in the City of Manila with a report of 41 cases

1. An alarm has been sounded regarding the greatly increased incidence of amebic dysentery in children of Manila during the last year2. This report presents 41 such cases3. Symptoms presented by cases studied are familiar and more or less typical of textbook descriptions4. No definite conclusions can be made regarding therapy instituted. (Summary)

Cancrum oris: observations on its incidence and treatment

1. Fifteen cases of cancrum oris admitted and treated in the Pediatrics Department of the Philippine General Hospital from April 4, 1945 to April 5, 1946 were presented2. The incidence of noma in the Philippines, before, during and after the second world war was discussed3. A reduction of the mortality rate from 70%-100% to 6.67% with the use of sulfa drugs and pencillin was reported4. Other reports on the incidence, mortality, and treatment of cancrum oris were briefly reviewed and compared with our findings. (Conclusions)

Syphilis in children in the Philippines - its incidence and treatment

1. Although no sweeping conclusions can be made, it appears that, clinically, penicillin has a dramatic and evidence effect on syphilis in children and a quicker tendency to serological reversal2. No toxic reactions have been observed3. For the present, ten thousand units of penicillin given every three hours around the clock by intramascular injection for a total of sixty injections and for a period of 7 1/2 days is sufficient to produce at least a clinical cure4. The number of cases syphilis admitted in the pediatric ward of the Philippine General Hospital is increasing. There having been more cases (53%) in the year just ended than in any one previous year since 1939. (Conclusions)

Multiple serositis (report of five cases)

1. Five cases of multiple serositis, all caused by tuberculosis, were studied2. The absence of any marked inflammatory involvement of the abdominal organs in the cases we reported was pointed out in contrast to the almost constant marked intra-abdominal changes observed in the previously studied cases3. The relatively short duration of our cases, 2 to 10 months, was contrasted to the 2 to 4-year or even 16-year duration of the polyserositis reported by others4. A short review of the literature on multiple serositis is also given. (Summary)

Intestinal obstruction secondary to ascariasis in children

1. Seven cases of intestinal obstruction secondary to ascaris were admitted to the Philippine General Hospital within a period of two years2. All of these cases recovered under conservative management alone, so that surgical intervention was not advocated3. Stress is laid on an early differentiation between intestinal obstruction due to ascariasis and an acute abdomen requiring surgical intervention. (Summary and Conclusions)

Infectious mononucleosis

A brief history, symptomatology, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of infectious mononucleosis is given; and the six cases we observed for a short space of time are reported. A case of infecious lymphocytosis is also reported, to show its distinguishing characteristics from infectious mononucleosis which it closely resembles. (Summary)