The MD Theses collection consists of manuscripts written by medical students from 1931-1969 at the University of Nebraska College of Medicine, now University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC)
Theses/Dissertations from 1959
Relation between personality variables and certain psychosomatic illness, Marilyn Gladys Myers
Recent developments in celiac disease, Robert William Norton
Salicylate intoxication, Merlin Glenn Ottemen
Effects of diuretics on renal acid-base equilibrium, Martin Frank Petereit
Etiology of headache in one hundred selected cases at Omaha Veterans Administration Hospital, Margaret H. Peterson
True hypothyroidism, obesity and metabolic insufficiency" indication for thyroid therapy", Ronald Ivar Peterson
Studies of the erythropoetic factor : the sources and the methods of assay, Brooks Joseph Poley
Adrenal tumors and related diseases, Joseph Hollis Poynter
Irregular bleeding caused by anovulatory cycles, Donald Adolph Prescher
Sickle cell disease : a review of the disease process : with special emphasis on coincident sickling phenomenon and pregnancy, James Albert Rogers
Effect of gonadotropic hormones on the human ovary, James Amos Rud
Observations on the effects of intravenous fat emulsions on blood coagulation, James Paul Schlichtemier
Possible value of antihistamines in blood transfusions, Stanley A. Serbousek
Radioactive diodrast renogram : screening test for abnormal kidney function, Dean C. Sloan
Prophylactic and therapeutic use of gamma globulins in general practice, Harold Glenn Smith
Steroid hormones isolated from an arrhenoblastoma, Michael Floyd Sorrell
Carcinoma of the gallbladder : a review of the literature with the addition of twenty cases from the University Hospital, Omaha, Nebraska, Jerome Sheldon Spitzer
Indications for the use of the artificial kidney, Leonard Alan Swanson
Erythropoietin : the kidney as its source : a review of the literature, Carol Joan Swarts
Intraocular acrylic lenses, Robert Williams Turner
Normal range of thyroid activity in newborn infants : determined by the uptake of I-131 by the thyroid gland in 24 hours, Eugene Dennis Van Hove
Incompetent cervix complicating pregnancy, Donald Hugh Wahl
Effect of nicotinic acid on the cholesterol concentration of bile and serum, Thomas Herbert Wallace
Production and maintenance of alloxan diabetes in the Rhesus monkey, Robert Clark Weldon
Study of the oral hypoglycemic compounds : chlorpropamide and metahexamide, John Benjamin Westmore
Quantitative determination of 5-hydroxytryptamine using the isolated heart of venus mercernia, David Eugene Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 1958
Erythropoiesis: consideration of a humoral stimulatory substract, Nathan Richard Adkins
The Use of hypnosis in obstetrics and gynecology : a review of the literature and case reports, Phillip Stanley Alberts
Cytologic examination of sputum in the diagnosis of carcinoma of the lung, its technique and significance, William Lorne Beck
Serological survey of human leptospirosis in the Omaha area, Jackson Junior Bence
Diagnostic methods in amebiasis, Joseph Francis Berberian
Lymphosarcoma of the small intestine, Edward Eugene Biever
Medical aspects in the treatment of alcoholism, Elliott Gordon Boisen
Effects of chloroquine phosphate in diabetes mellitus, Bernard Charles Burns
Significance of nipple discharge as correlated with proven breast pathology, Bill Doyle Burr
Prophylaxis of allergic manifestations in childhood, Thomas Dale Calvert
Fingerprint test for fibrocystic disease, James David Collins
Fetal implications of emotional stress, Howard Leslie Copas
Dialysis in treatment of renal failure : intracorporeal and extracorporeal methods, James Michael Donovan
Placental insufficiency and the small undernourished full-term infant, Manis Cecil Edwards
Tissue repair, Robert Gerald Faier
Theories of the etiology of alcoholism, Frank Falloon
Accidental iron poisoning a review of cases involving children, Bill Eugene Farmer
Study of salivary potassium and sodium concentration, Donald Eugene Gatch
Biologic effects of progesterone and progestational agents, Gretchen Mary Glode
Studies of blood pepsinogen, Michael Lee Greenberg
Cancer cells and tumor emboli in the blood stream, John Leland Greene
Clinical evaluation of analgesic agents and the clinical evaluation of Darvon (D-propoxyphene Hydrochloride), Lilly, Kiyoshi George Hachiya
Comparison of sebaceous gland secretion in normal and fibrocystic children, Norman Lyle Hagberg
Surgical treatment of comedocarcinoma of the breast, Donald Lee Hammes
Clinical application of synovial fluid change, William Rudolph Hamsa
Potassium permaganate burns of the cervix and vagina, Lumier Erving Hanzel
Clinical evaluation of carcinoma of the prostate, Boyd Lee Harris
General review of allergic therapy : with special reference to anergex, Eugene Joseph Hesse
Paralyzation of the immune mechanism followed by intravenus transplantation of bone marrow, Richard Paul Hill
Parenteral use of ascitic fluid, Ward Lane Hinrichs
Experimental and therapeutic use of relaxin in the human female, Keith Hadley Johansen
Vectorcardiography : summary of teaching aids with description of new model, Gordon O. Johnson
Carcinoma of the endometrium : a study of a disease in its terminal phase, Guinter (George) Kahn
Post-operative ventilatory efficiency as measured by expiratoty CO2, Joseph Ralph Kantor
Study of attitudes of general practitioners toward psychiatry, Daniel Kenneth Kemp
Review of the causes of spontaneous abortion : with special mention of the changes seen in chorionic villi, Allan Campbell Landers
Role of the presacral neurectomy in primary dysmenorrhea, Marvin Keith Lawton
Phenylketonuria, Philip Charles Lehman
Carcionoma of the endometrium : a report on the incidence of visible tumor following preoperative radiotherapy, Hal Kennedy Mardis
Techniques of blood group desensitization, Joseph Leo McDonald
Electrographic changes due to blunt trauma to the thorax, John Thomas McGreer
Extracoporeal circulation in intracardiac surgery, Donald Charles McKee
Use of glucagon to terminate insulin induced hypoglycemic reaction in diabetic patients, Benjamin Reuben Meckel
Toxicity of parenteral iron : with special reference to ferric ethylenediaminetet raacetic acid (ferric fersenate), Carl Don Miller
Study of mitral insufficiency through spatial vectorcardiography, Charles Robert Myers
Serum 5-hydroxytryptamine levels in toxemia of pregnancy, Lyle Herman Nelson
Study of the relationship between oral sepsis and postoperative complications, Orval Pilgrim Nesselbush
Diagnosis of acute appendicitis in infants and children, Robert Eric Nordling
Value of serum glutamic oxalacetic transaminase in the differential diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction, Donald Davis Nuss
Role of acetazoleamide (diamox) in glaucoma therapy, William Frank Nye
Artificial kidney : a discussion of the history and technical management with the use of the Kolff stationary coil kidney, Richard Henry Otteman
Physiological action and clinical application of amphenone B : a review of the literature, John Walker Pemberton
History of surgery at the College of Medicine, University of Nebraska, Clayton Lloyd Pettipiece
Cecostomy versus transverse colostomy : a review and re-evaluation of indications, with presentation of two new series, Robert Dean Phelps
Follow-up of previously negative cervical smears : a 5-year follow-up of cervical smears of 750 private patients, Robert Eugene Quick
Serum and urinary osmolarity in dehydrated children, David Rafat
Pert-infarction block, Walter Edward Reiss
Congenital dislocation of the hip joint : with special reference to early diagnosis and treatment, Donald Wesley Rohren
Bilateral adrenalectomy and ovariectomy in advanced carcinoma of the breast, Carl William Sasse
Rupture of the pregnant uterus, Willliam Joseph Schibly
Evaluation of a new and two existing methods of burn area estimation, Richard Blaisdell Seymour
Five year survey of perinatal mortality 1953-1957, and detailed discussion on pulmonary hyaline membranes of the newborn, Morris Frederick Skinner
Electrophoretic demonstration of chorionic gonadotropin as a method of pregnancy diagnosis, Donald Paul Skoog
Surgical revascularization of the myocardium, Edgar Harold Smith
Clinical evaluation of zacterin in arthritis, Leroy Richard Smith
Study of the use of estrogenic hormones in the treatment of the male pseudohermaphrodie, David V. Stephenson
Five-year follow-up on carcinoma of the ovary in private practice, Robert Morrison Strykerr
The Ascending paralysis of the potassium intoxication syndrome, Robert Lawrence Tupper
Irradiation of the nasopharynx as a prophylactic measure against chronic upper respiratory infections and their aftermath : a review of American literature, John Henry Wachal
Beta sitosterol : a new therapeutic approach to the management of atherosclerosis, Leon Donald Wanek
Effect of nitrogen mustard on wound healing, David Sherrill Weeks
Some biologic aspects of the aging process, Harry Wallace Weigel
Abnormalities in the protein-bound carbohydrate of blood in the collagen diseases, Hobart Wiltse
A review of Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease with an introduction to an improved method of treatment, Robert Lemoyne Yekel