This is the report of the successful repair of a divided levator palpebrae superioris, carried out 16 months after the complete division of this muscle as the result of a motor accident.
SEVEL,E septicaeuaia, generally of streptococcal oriain, was a wound complication which was only too frequent and fatal during the war. The usually desperate condition of such cases and their high mortality made an urgent appeal for attempts at a cure, and almost any method which promised 'success worthy of trial. The marked benefit attendant upon whole blood transfusions which were being performed in large numbers in No. 8 General Hospital in the summer
1. There is a lower percentage of positive Wassermanns in cases of malignant disease than in a similar population of non-malignant cases. If buccal cancers are excluded, the percentage is half that in non-malignant cases.2. Cancer of the tongue and buccal cavity, in which a high percentage of positive Wassermanns is found, is almost confined to males and is probably due less to syphilitic infection than to some factor such as smoking.3. There is a low percentage of syphilis in cancer of the digestive tract, except in cases of cancer of the stomach, and the incidence diminishes from mouth to anus.4. Syphilis does not appear to be a factor of importance in cancer of the glandular organs, nor, apart from the lip, in the production of cutaneous cancer.5. In general, from the above figures there is no evidence that syphilis plays any direct or very important part in the production of cancer.
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