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Fulltext The contribution of research in anaesthesia to clinical medicine

Adams AK

Med J Malaysia, 1988 Mar;43(1):9-13.

PMID: 3072469

Matched MeSH terms: History, 19th Century

Psychoactive properties of mitragynine (kratom)

Jansen KL, Prast CJ

J Psychoactive Drugs, 1988 Oct-Dec;20(4):455-7.

PMID: 3072396

Matched MeSH terms: History, 19th Century

Evolution of civil aeromedical helicopter aviation

Meier DR, Samper ER

South. Med. J., 1989 Jul;82(7):885-91.

PMID: 2665130

The rapid increase in the use of helicopters for hospital transport during the 1980s is the culmination of several hundred years of military medical innovation. Mass battefield casualties spurred both technologic and medical changes necessary for today's sophisticated helicopter systems in use worldwide, particularly in the United States. The Napoleonic Era and the American Civil War provided the framework for the evolution of today's state-of-the-art emergency medical techniques. The use of airplanes to evacuate the wounded eventually led to using helicopters for rescue missions in World War II. The combat experiences of the United States in Korea, the British in Malaya, and the French in Indochina proved that rotary-wing aircraft were invaluable in reducing battlefield death rates. Any skepticism about the efficacy of helicopter medical evacuation was erased during the Vietnam conflict. As an integral part of the modern battlefield, these specialized aircraft became a necessity. The observations and experience of American servicemen and medical personnel in Vietnam established the foundation for the acceptance of helicopter transport in modern hospital systems.

Matched MeSH terms: History, 19th Century

The Development of Health Services in the colonies--a study of British Malaya and Singapore

Phua KH

Asia Pac J Public Health, 1989;3(4):315-23.

PMID: 2700659

Matched MeSH terms: History, 19th Century

Urinary stones in Malaysia--its incidence and management

Sreenevasan G

Med J Malaysia, 1990 Jun;45(2):92-112.

PMID: 2152025

The life of Lord Moynihan is briefly reviewed. Incidence of stones in Peninsular Malaysia appears to show the same trend as in other industrialised countries. Management of urinary calculi both prior to and after the introduction of ESWL in a personal series is discussed. More than 90% of urinary stones are now treated by ESWL threatening the place of surgery in Urology. The pattern of incorporating renal transplantation into the urological training programme as practised in the Institute of Urology and Nephrology in Malaysia is suggested as a way to assure a place for surgery in Urology.

Matched MeSH terms: History, 19th Century

Fulltext [Anti-neuritis vitamin and beriberi. Nobel prize paper. 1929]

Eijkman C

Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd, 1990 Aug 25;134(34):1654-7.

PMID: 2215709

Matched MeSH terms: History, 19th Century

Fulltext Cholera in Sarawak: a historical perspective (1873-1989)

Yadav H, Chee CM

Med J Malaysia, 1990 Sep;45(3):194-201.

PMID: 2152080

Cholera has been in existence in Sarawak for many years and since 1873 many major epidemics have occurred. The epidemics usually occur during the dry months of May, June and July and the population affected are those in coastal areas. As in other outbreaks the areas affected were those which had poor environmental sanitation, poor water supply, poor refuse disposal and indiscriminate disposal of faeces. Malays are more affected as in Peninsular Malaysia outbreaks. The classical biotype was common prior to 1961. In later years the El Tor (biotype) has been responsible for most outbreaks.

Matched MeSH terms: History, 19th Century

Drug rehabilitation in west Malaysia: an overview of its history and development

Arokiasamy CM, Taricone PF

Int J Addict, 1992 Nov;27(11):1301-11.

PMID: 1332927

West Malaysia has had a long history of drug use, beginning as early as the 1800s. While early use was primarily restricted to Chinese coolies and Indian immigrant laborers, the 1970s saw drug use become the domain of the youth of Malaysia and achieve the proportions of a national crisis. This paper traces the early origins of drug use and misuse in Malaysia, its development and expansion during the 1970s and the current efforts at eradication and rehabilitation. This examination of Malaysian efforts in response to the spread of drug use or misuse may provide researchers and practitioners in other countries some historical and cross cultural perspectives on current international efforts at eradicating similar problems.

Matched MeSH terms: History, 19th Century

Fulltext Changing patterns in the treatment of early breast cancer: a historical perspective and a review of changing local trends

Sim E, Lim TC, Tan WT, Rauff A

Med J Malaysia, 1993 Jun;48(2):211-6.

PMID: 8350798

Over the past 50 years, a variety of surgical procedures have been advocated for the treatment of operable breast cancer, ranging from local excision to supraradical mastectomy. Today, the surgical treatment of breast cancer remains highly contentious. We review the historical development of breast cancer surgery and analyse the available evidence supporting conservative procedures. We also express our opinions on the treatment of early breast cancer and illustrate the changing patterns of surgery with our experience at National University Hospital.

Matched MeSH terms: History, 19th Century

Watson, Swellengrebel and species sanitation: environmental and ecological aspects

Bradley DJ

Parassitologia, 1994 Aug;36(1-2):137-47.

PMID: 7898951

Following the discovery of mosquito transmission of malaria, the theory and practice of malaria control by general and selective removal of specific vector populations resulted particularly from Malcolm Watson's empirical work in peninsular Malaysia, first in the urban and peri-urban areas of Klang and Port Swettenham and subsequently in the rural rubber plantations, and from the work of N.H. Swellengrebel in nearby Indonesia on the taxonomy, ecology and control of anophelines. They developed the concept of species sanitation: the selective modification of the environment to render a particular anopheline of no importance as a vector in a particular situation. The lack of progress along these lines in India at that time is contrasted with that in south-east Asia. The extension of species sanitation and related concepts to other geographical areas and to other vector-borne disease situations is outlined.

Matched MeSH terms: History, 19th Century

Radiology in Malaya in the 1920s

Wastie ML

Med J Malaysia, 1994 Sep;49(3):199-204.

PMID: 7845265

Matched MeSH terms: History, 19th Century

Amok

Kon Y

Br J Psychiatry, 1994 Nov;165(5):685-9.

PMID: 7866687

BACKGROUND: Amok is reviewed from a historical standpoint, tracing how it has changed from the Hindu states of India where it was a war tactic to the sudden incomprehensible violence and mass murder by a single individual associated with the syndrome today.

METHOD: A typical amok attack is described and the criteria for amok discussed. Amok in Malaysia, New Guinea, Laos, North America and other countries are presented. The possible motives for such violent killings and a possible psychiatric diagnosis in relation to contemporary diagnostic criteria is discussed.

CONCLUSION: Classification of amok remains unresolved. The reason for its frequency in and around Malaysia remains unknown.

Matched MeSH terms: History, 19th Century

Fulltext A short history of the Medical Journal of Malaysia

Lim VKE

Med J Malaysia, 1995 May;50 Suppl A:S11-3.

PMID: 10968006

Matched MeSH terms: History, 19th Century

Gilles de la Tourette and the discovery of Tourette syndrome. Includes a translation of his 1884 article

Lajonchere C, Nortz M, Finger S

Arch. Neurol., 1996 Jun;53(6):567-74.

PMID: 8660160

In 1885, Gilles de la Tourette described 9 patients who suffered from a disorder characterized by involuntary movements, echolalia, echopraxia, coprolalia, and strange, uncontrollable sounds. In his article, Gilles de la Tourette presented some earlier descriptions of this disorder. To appreciate what first led Gilles de la Tourette to Tourette syndrome, however, it is necessary to turn to an article that he published a year earlier. In his 1884 article, Gilles de la Tourette cited several movement disorders that he thought were similar to each other, yet different from true chorea. After describing these disorders, namely, "jumping" of Maine, latah of Malaysia, and miryachit of Siberia, he briefly mentioned a boy in Charcot's ward in Paris, France, who seemed to exhibit the same condition. In an addendum, he then said that other cases were now surfacing in Paris and that he would write an additional article describing these individuals. To achieve a more thorough understanding of the events that led Gilles de la Tourette to his 1885 description of the disorder that now bears his name, we herein present an English-language translation of his 1884 article along with a commentary.

Matched MeSH terms: History, 19th Century

Disease, race, and empire

Anderson W

Bull Hist Med, 1996;70(1):62-7.

PMID: 8850070

Matched MeSH terms: History, 19th Century

The 1996 Runme Shaw Memorial Lecture: malaria--past, present and future

Warrell DA

Ann Acad Med Singap, 1997 May;26(3):380-7.

PMID: 9285035

Falciparum malaria may have infected Homo sapiens (and perhaps H erectus) in the Asia Pacific region for more than 100,000 years. This estimate is based on the gene frequency of alpha-thalassaemia, the protection it affords against falciparum malaria and assumptions of untreated mortality from the infection. Up until the end of the 19th century, there was a high mortality from malaria in the coastal parts of Malaya, but the malaria control campaign, begun in 1901 at Klang, was described by Sir Ronald Ross as the first successful antimalarial work in the (then) British Empire. This was extended to Singapore in 1911. When the Far Eastern Association of Tropical Medicine held its Fifth Biennial Congress in Singapore in 1923, malaria was still a major killing disease in parts of Malaya and Sarawak. The mechanism of life-threatening malaria involves cytoadherence of parasitised erythrocytes in microvascular beds, a process enhanced by the products of macrophage activation induced by malarial pyrogen. Improvements in the chemotherapy of life-threatening falciparum malaria with chloroquine and quinine have been countered by the emergence of resistant strains. Artemisinin derivatives may become the treatment of choice during the coming decade. Apart from traditional anti-mosquito methods, control of malaria now involves the use of insecticide-impregnated bed nets, new entomological strategies, including genetic manipulation of mosquitoes and selective chemoprophylaxis. Antigenic diversity and antigenic variation of the malaria parasite have so far defeated attempts to produce an effective vaccine.

Matched MeSH terms: History, 19th Century

John Desmond Gimlette: "one of God's own"

Fleming PR

J Med Biogr, 1998 Nov;6(4):222-6.

PMID: 11623507

Matched MeSH terms: History, 19th Century

Where is the postcolonial history of medicine? Essay review

Anderson W

Bull Hist Med, 1998;72(3):522-30.

PMID: 9780451

Matched MeSH terms: History, 19th Century

Public health developments in colonial Malaya: colonialism and the politics of prevention

Manderson L

Am J Public Health, 1999 Jan;89(1):102-7.

PMID: 9987478

In both African and Asian colonies until the late 19th century, colonial medicine operated pragmatically to meet the medical needs first of colonial officers and troops, immigrant settlers, and laborers responsible for economic development, then of indigenous populations when their ill health threatened the well-being of the expatriate population. Since the turn of the century, however, the consequences of colonial expansion and development for indigenous people's health had become increasingly apparent, and disease control and public health programs were expanded in this light. These programs increased government surveillance of populations at both community and household levels. As a consequence, colonial states extended institutional oversight and induced dependency through public health measures. Drawing on my own work on colonial Malaya, I illustrate developments in public health and their links to the moral logic of colonialism and its complementarity to the political economy.

Matched MeSH terms: History, 19th Century

Fulltext Amok--from the writings of Sir Frank Swettenham

Kua EH, Sulaimi MS

Singapore Med J, 1999 Apr;40(4):327-8.

PMID: 10487096

Matched MeSH terms: History, 19th Century

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