Knight Army Hospital: 1862-1865.

A cataclysmic civil war produced hundreds of thousands of sick and wounded soldiers. The Knight Army Hospital was built in New Haven to provide for returning soldiers of Connecticut suffering from disease or injury. With a 1,000-bed capacity, it became a city within a city successfully providing comprehensive health care and a variety of other services.

Effect of debt level on the residency preferences of graduating medical students.

Background: The increased educational indebtedness of graduating medical students has led to speculation about the effects of students' debt levels on their choices of practice specialties as evidenced by their residency preferences.

Method: Information was analyzed for 1,658 medical students who graduated from six private medical schools in 1988, 1989, and 1990; 1,431 of these students had educational debts. Chi-square analysis was used to compare the 1,431 students' average levels of indebtedness with their selections of residencies leading to specialties with higher or lower potential incomes.

Technetium Tc 99m plasmin in the diagnosis of inflammatory disease.

The localization characteristics of technetium Tc 99m plasmin were studied in experimental animals to investigate the use of 99mTc-plasmin for imaging inflammatory processes. At various times after abscess induction using turpentine in rats, the in vivo distribution properties of 99mTc-plasmin, gallium citrate Ga 67, 125I-fibrinogen, and 99mTc-human serum albumin (HSA) were studied by gamma-camera imaging. The in vivo binding of each radiopharmaceutical was also tested in rat and human plasma clots.