TY  - JOUR
T1  - MEdical news
Y1  - 1939/06/24
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1939.02800250037020
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 2613
EP  - 2616
VL  - 112
IS  - 25
N2  - ALABAMA 
    Outbreak of Gonococcic Ophthalmia.— 
    A gonococcic infection was said to be the cause of a recent outbreak of thirty-nine cases of ophthalmia in a rural school having an enrolment of 140. Some of the patients were convalescent when first seen, but nine of the cases were proved to be due to the gonococcus. The disease was introduced into the school by a boy who had acquired the infection from an adult similarly infected. When all the pupils were examined for genital infection, none of the boys was found infected but seven small girls were found to have gonorrheal vaginitis.ARKANSAS 
    Appropriation to Medical School Increased.— 
    The Arkansas legislature recently granted to the University of Arkansas School of Medicine, Little Rock, an increase in its annual appropriation from $70,000 to $300,000. The increase was granted chiefly to enable the school to take over the Little Rock City Hospital, with a
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1939.02800250037020
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1939.02800250037020
ER  -