[Functional muscular abdominal distension--a case report].

The rare clinical picture of the functional muscular distension must be demarcated from organic changes which are connected with an increase of the abdominal volume such as intraabdominal tumours, accumulations of fluid or gatherings of gas or pregnancy. In this symptom a functional disturbance is concerned which appears in patients with vegetative lability or psychic peculiarities and by changes of tension of the musculature surrounding the abdominal space leads to the intermittent or chronic protrusion of the abdomen. By means of an anaesthesia the presence of a functional cause can be made evident: after injection of anaesthetics the protruding abdominal wall is subsiding.

[Early diagnosis of diabetes mellitus--studies on the effectiveness and value of diabetes screening actions].

Actions to found out cases of diabetes, which exclusively worked with a proof of glucosuria using the biophan-test stripe, were always loaded by a high percentage of falsely pathologic, but also by a not insignificant number of falsely negative investigation results. -- Therefore a multiphasic screening was carried out in 5,424 persons at the age of 20 and more years, which tested the problems mentioned and judged the possibilities of an improved diagnosis.