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Mazique 1975 NMA Distinguished Service Medalist Dr. Edward Craig Mazique of Washington, D.C., 59th president of the National Medical Association in 1959-60, was the choice of the House of Delegates to receive the 30th Distinguished Service Medal of the Association at its 80th Annual Convention in Miami Beach, Florida. Dr. Mazique was born in Natchez, Mississippi, March 21, 1911, the sixth of nine
Dr. Edward C. Mazique (right) receives from Dr. A. A. Williams, chairman of the Council on Awards, the NMA Distinguished Service Medal for 1975.
children of Alex L. and Addie B. Wilkerson Mazique. He received his preliminary education in the public schools of Natchez and was awarded the B.S. by Morehouse College in 1933 and the A. M. by Atlanta University in 1934. For the next three years he was director of education and instructor in science at State A. & I. College, Forsyth, Georgia. He then entered the Howard University College of Medicine from which he received the M.D. in 1941. He interned in Freedmen's Hospital, where he remained for an additional year as an assistant resident in internal medicine. He has practiced medicine in Washington, D.C. since 1943. He was awarded an honorary Sc.D. by Morehouse in 1974, the same year in which he became a trustee of his alma mater. Dr. Mazique's entry into medical practice was vigorous and ambitious and after early ups and downs, it has become eminently successful. His interest in the public weal dated from medical school days. He quickly affiliated with the Medico-Chirurgical Society,
contributing significantly to the work of several committees, most important of which was an Ad Hoc group appointed to negotiate the admission of Negro physicians into the Medical Society of the District of Columbia which began its work in 1949. The racial barriers were dropped in 1952.1 The other members of this committee were Drs. John Sinclair Perry and Ulysses L. Houston with the writer as chairman.1 Dr. Mazique was elected vice president of Medico-Chi in 1950 and became president in 1951, serving additional terms in 1952 and 53, and again in 1957 and 58, five in all.2 In the NMA, Dr. Mazique was elected to the Board of Trustees in 1957, resigning on his selection as president-elect in 1958. He was a member of the Judicial Council, 196168, and acting chairman of the Council on Awards in 1968. He also served as legal representative of the NMA in 1961-62. Dr. Mazique was president of the Howard University Medical Alumni Association, 1970-71, and president of the Howard University Alumni Federation, 1971-72. He has served on the Public Welfare and the Emergency Medical Service Committees of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia, 1971, and was chairman of the Health Advisory Council of the Washington Technical Institute, 1969. Dr. Mazique has twice journeyed abroad with medical interests. In 1960 he visited the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia as a memberlof a group of 12 NMA physicians who wished to learn as much as possible about health programs and institutions in those countries. This tour has been dealt with in separate articles by Dr. Leroy R. Swift3 and Dr. Mazique in the July 1961 issue of this Journal. In 1962 Dr. Mazique went to Lagos, Nigeria, as leader of a group of four for ceremonies in connection with a fund-raising drive for the Ojike Memorial Hospital. This project was described by Dr. Mazique in an article in this Journal for January 1964.; In 1973 he made an extensive tour of Africa with his wife on which he secured
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excellent movies of different fauna and peoples. Dr. Mazique has been extensively involved in community, civic and political affairs. He was one of three Afro-Americans appointed to the first Citizens Advisory Council to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia when this was established in 1951. He served on the Board of Directors of the Washington Home Rule Committee from 1952-1960. Since 1954, he has been a member of the Medical Advisory Board of the Visiting Nurses Association. He has given major attention to the YMCA, having served as a member of the Board of the 12th Street (now Anthony Bowen) Branch since 1952, and as its chairman in 1960. He was chosen as a member of the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan YMCA in 1962 and presently serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of Management of this organization. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of United Community National Bank since 1963 and serves also on the Board of the D.C. Council on Alcoholism, the African Academy of Arts and Research and was a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the Community Chest Foundation of the District of Columbia for several years beginWning in 1953. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the D.C. Branch of the NAACP, 1952-57, and serves on the Advisory Committee of the Southeast Neighborhood House. He has been vice president of the Board of Directors of Hospital Services Agency, also, a member of the Board of Directors of the Boys Club of Greater Washington in 1970, and of the Board of Directors of the American Capital Life Insurance Company, 1971. In the same year he was a member of the Board of Counselors of the School of Business of Federal City College and a professional member of the National Association of Disability Examiners of the National Rehabititation Association. He was at one time chairman of the Board of Directors of Jet Supermarkets. At Morehouse College he maintains a dining room named in honor of his later brother, Dr. Douglas Wilkerson Mazique.6
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He is a member of the American Public Health Association, the American Medical Association and the American Geriatric Society. Since 1972 he has served as advisor to the Washington chapter of the American Association of Medical Assistants. In politics he was a member of the Democratic Central Committee of the District of Columbia, 1955-60, alternate delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1964 and treasurer for the Fauntroy for Congress Campaign, 1970-71. He belongs to the Omega Psi Phi and Chi Delta Mu fraternities. Dr. Mazique has testified on health matters before Congressional Committees and given addresses in many parts of the country. He has received the recognition of numerous awards. Dr. Mazique was first married to Jewel Crawford of Forsyth, Georgia in 1937. They had two sons, Edward and Jeffrey, a senior and sophomore respectively, in the Howard University College of Medicine. His present wife is the former Frances Margurite Byrd, who has two daughters by a former marriage. W. MONTAGUE COBB, M.D. LITERATURE CITED
1. COBB, W.M. In, "Negroes in Medicine," by Dietrich C. Reitzes. Chap. X. The Nation's Capital-Washington, D.C., Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1958, pp. 190-230. 2. Medico-Chi at Ninety, 1884-1974. JNMA, v. 66, pp. 257-261, 1974. 3. SWIFT, L.R. Medical Mission to Moscow. JNMA, v. 53, pp. 346-351, 1961. 4. MAZIQUE, E.C. Public Health and Medical Care in Russia. JNMA, v. 53, pp. 352-355, 1961. 5. Ojike Nigerian Hospital Project. JNMA, v. 56, pp. 112-114, 1964. 6. Douglas Wilkerson Mazique. JNMA, v. 56, p. 550, 1964. PUBLICATIONS BY DR. EDWARD C. MAZIQUE
1. Disseminate Lupus Erythematosus Unsuccessfully Treated with Penicillin, Roentgen Ray Castration and Serum Albumin. Ann. Int. Med., v. 25, p. 859, 1946. 2. Integration Enters Medicine (President's Inaugural Address). JNMA, v. 51, pp. 381-390, 1959. 3. Fellows of the NMA (President's Column). JNMA, v. 51, pp. 388, 397, 1959. 4. Doctors and Lawyers (President's Column). JNMA, v. 51, pp. 474, 495, 1959. (Concluded on page 443.)
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Ruptured Tubo-Ovarian Abscess
tubo-ovarian masses, diagnosis usually presents little problem. In the absence of a history of previous infection and particularly in dealing with older patients, diagnosis may be difficult. Many other causes of abdominal pain such as ectopic pregnancy, ovarian torsion, appendicitis, diverticulitis, acute colitis, perforated peptic ulcer, and mechanical intestinal obstruction of whatever cause may produce many of the same symptoms. CONCLUSION
Intra-abdominal rupture of a pelvic abscess is a serious complication of pelvic inflammatory disease. Management consists of vigorous supportive measures and antibiotic therapy followed within a few hours by surgery, usually hysterectomy, with bilateral salpingooophorectomy and drainage. Appendectomy is recommended where possible. Antibiotics should be type specific where possible but always intensive in concentration and broad in spectrum. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The author wishes to express his appreciation to Miss Olga Boich, medical records administrator, Queen of Angels Hospital, Miss Marilyn Stiefel, medical records administrator, Temple Hospital, and to Mrs. Joelle Jennings and Ms. Sharyn Lloyd, Queen of Angels Hospital for their assistance in the preparation of this paper. LITERATURE CITED
1. RICCI, J. The Geneology of Gynecology. Phila.: The Blackiston Co. 1950. 2. FLEMING, A. Discovery of Penicillin. Brit. J. Exper. Path., 10:226, 1929. 3. JONES, C. P. and B. CARTER, W. THOMAS and R. N. CREADICK. Antibiotic and Chemotherapeutic Agents in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Obstet. & Gynecol., 5:365, 1955. 4. DUBOS, R. J. Studies on Bactericidal Agent Extracted from Soil Bacillus; Preparation of Agent. Its Activity In-vitro, J. Exper. Med., 70:1, 1939.
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5. CHAIN, E. and F. P. FLOREY and W. ALLEN. Penicillin as a Chemotherapeutic Agent. Lancet, 2:226, 1940. 6. FLOREY, H. W. and M. A. JENNINGS. Some Biological Properties of Highly Purified Penicillin. Brit. J. Exper. Patho., 23:120, 1942. 7. WALKER, V. N. and W. S. BAKER, Jr. Surgical Management of Acute Pelvic Infection Refractory to Conservative Therapy. Am. J. Obstet. & Gynecol., 82:497, 1961. 8. COLLINS, C. G. and F. W. JANSEN. Treatment of Pelvic Abscess. Clin. Obstet. & Gynecol., 2:512, 1959. 9. De ALVAREZ, R. R. and D. C. FIGGE. Influence of Antibiotics on Pelvic Inflammatory Disease. Obstet. & Gynecol., 5:765, 1955. 10. TE LINDE, R. W. Operative Gynecology. 2nd ed. Phila.: J. B. Lippincott, Co. 1953. 11. MOHLER, R. W. Study and Classification of Pelvic Inflammatory Disease. Am. J. Obstet. & Gynecol., 57:1077, 1949. 12. TRACTENBERG, I. Clinical Evaluation and Analysis of 268 Cases of Pelvic Infection. J. Internat. Coll. Surg., 9:724, 1946. 13. TRITSCH, J. E. and I. H. SAXE and E. SCHNEIDER. Pelvic Inflammatory Disease: Survey of 300 Consecutive Cases, with Special Reference to Treatment. N. Eng. J. Med., 235:414, 1946. 14. BADRA, P. L. and J. R. YOUNG, R. K. LAROS, Jr. and E. P. PETERSON. Suppurative Salpingitis after Laparoscopic Tubal Cauterization. Obstet. & Gynecol., 42:511, 1973. 15. WRIGHT, F. C. Tubo-ovarian Abscess Associated with Laparoscopic Tubal Cauterization and the Intrauterine Contraceptive Device. Am. J. Obstet. & Gynecol., 119:1133, 1974. 16. PHILLIPS, J. A Spectrum of Radiologic Abnormalities due to Tubo-ovarian Abscess. Radiology, 110:336, 1974. 17. HOHNER, C., et al. Symposium on Management of Gyn Infections. Cont. Obstet. & Gynecol., 5:128, 1975. 18. DUDLEY, A. G. and,F. LEE, and D. BARCLAY. Ovarian and Tubo-ovarian Abscess in Pregnancy: Report of a Case and Review of the Literature. Military Med., 135:403, 1970. 19. AINSWORTH, G. D. and F. LEE, and D. BARCLAY. Ovarian and Tubo-ovarian Abscess in Pregnancy. Military Med., 135:403, 1970.
(Mazique, from page 476.) 9. Medical Dimensions in the Nuclear Age (Presi5. Meetings and Reflections Thereon. (President's dent's Retiring Address). JNMA, v. 52, pp. 352Column). JNMA, v. 52, pp. 52, 71, 1960. 360, 1960. 6. Doctors and Politics (President's Column). 10. Public Health and Medical Care in Russia. JNMA, v. 52, pp. 136, 151, 1960. JNMA, v. 53, pp. 352-355, 1961. 7. A Governor's Health Conference (President's 11. Ojike Nigerian Hospital Project. JNMA, v. 56, Column). JNMA, v. 52, pp. 198, 219, 1960. pp. 112-114, 1964. 8. Southern Exposure (President's Column). JNMA, v. 52, pp. 278, 314, 1960.
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Mazique 1975 NMA Distinguished Service Medalist Dr. Edward Craig Mazique of Washington, D.C., 59th president of the National Medical Association in 1959-60, was the choice of the House of Delegates to receive the 30th Distinguished Service Medal of the Association at its 80th Annual Convention in Miami Beach, Florida. Dr. Mazique was born in Natchez, Mississippi, March 21, 1911, the sixth of nine
Dr. Edward C. Mazique (right) receives from Dr. A. A. Williams, chairman of the Council on Awards, the NMA Distinguished Service Medal for 1975.
children of Alex L. and Addie B. Wilkerson Mazique. He received his preliminary education in the public schools of Natchez and was awarded the B.S. by Morehouse College in 1933 and the A. M. by Atlanta University in 1934. For the next three years he was director of education and instructor in science at State A. & I. College, Forsyth, Georgia. He then entered the Howard University College of Medicine from which he received the M.D. in 1941. He interned in Freedmen's Hospital, where he remained for an additional year as an assistant resident in internal medicine. He has practiced medicine in Washington, D.C. since 1943. He was awarded an honorary Sc.D. by Morehouse in 1974, the same year in which he became a trustee of his alma mater. Dr. Mazique's entry into medical practice was vigorous and ambitious and after early ups and downs, it has become eminently successful. His interest in the public weal dated from medical school days. He quickly affiliated with the Medico-Chirurgical Society,
contributing significantly to the work of several committees, most important of which was an Ad Hoc group appointed to negotiate the admission of Negro physicians into the Medical Society of the District of Columbia which began its work in 1949. The racial barriers were dropped in 1952.1 The other members of this committee were Drs. John Sinclair Perry and Ulysses L. Houston with the writer as chairman.1 Dr. Mazique was elected vice president of Medico-Chi in 1950 and became president in 1951, serving additional terms in 1952 and 53, and again in 1957 and 58, five in all.2 In the NMA, Dr. Mazique was elected to the Board of Trustees in 1957, resigning on his selection as president-elect in 1958. He was a member of the Judicial Council, 196168, and acting chairman of the Council on Awards in 1968. He also served as legal representative of the NMA in 1961-62. Dr. Mazique was president of the Howard University Medical Alumni Association, 1970-71, and president of the Howard University Alumni Federation, 1971-72. He has served on the Public Welfare and the Emergency Medical Service Committees of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia, 1971, and was chairman of the Health Advisory Council of the Washington Technical Institute, 1969. Dr. Mazique has twice journeyed abroad with medical interests. In 1960 he visited the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia as a memberlof a group of 12 NMA physicians who wished to learn as much as possible about health programs and institutions in those countries. This tour has been dealt with in separate articles by Dr. Leroy R. Swift3 and Dr. Mazique in the July 1961 issue of this Journal. In 1962 Dr. Mazique went to Lagos, Nigeria, as leader of a group of four for ceremonies in connection with a fund-raising drive for the Ojike Memorial Hospital. This project was described by Dr. Mazique in an article in this Journal for January 1964.; In 1973 he made an extensive tour of Africa with his wife on which he secured
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excellent movies of different fauna and peoples. Dr. Mazique has been extensively involved in community, civic and political affairs. He was one of three Afro-Americans appointed to the first Citizens Advisory Council to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia when this was established in 1951. He served on the Board of Directors of the Washington Home Rule Committee from 1952-1960. Since 1954, he has been a member of the Medical Advisory Board of the Visiting Nurses Association. He has given major attention to the YMCA, having served as a member of the Board of the 12th Street (now Anthony Bowen) Branch since 1952, and as its chairman in 1960. He was chosen as a member of the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan YMCA in 1962 and presently serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of Management of this organization. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of United Community National Bank since 1963 and serves also on the Board of the D.C. Council on Alcoholism, the African Academy of Arts and Research and was a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the Community Chest Foundation of the District of Columbia for several years beginWning in 1953. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the D.C. Branch of the NAACP, 1952-57, and serves on the Advisory Committee of the Southeast Neighborhood House. He has been vice president of the Board of Directors of Hospital Services Agency, also, a member of the Board of Directors of the Boys Club of Greater Washington in 1970, and of the Board of Directors of the American Capital Life Insurance Company, 1971. In the same year he was a member of the Board of Counselors of the School of Business of Federal City College and a professional member of the National Association of Disability Examiners of the National Rehabititation Association. He was at one time chairman of the Board of Directors of Jet Supermarkets. At Morehouse College he maintains a dining room named in honor of his later brother, Dr. Douglas Wilkerson Mazique.6
NOVEMBER, 1975
He is a member of the American Public Health Association, the American Medical Association and the American Geriatric Society. Since 1972 he has served as advisor to the Washington chapter of the American Association of Medical Assistants. In politics he was a member of the Democratic Central Committee of the District of Columbia, 1955-60, alternate delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1964 and treasurer for the Fauntroy for Congress Campaign, 1970-71. He belongs to the Omega Psi Phi and Chi Delta Mu fraternities. Dr. Mazique has testified on health matters before Congressional Committees and given addresses in many parts of the country. He has received the recognition of numerous awards. Dr. Mazique was first married to Jewel Crawford of Forsyth, Georgia in 1937. They had two sons, Edward and Jeffrey, a senior and sophomore respectively, in the Howard University College of Medicine. His present wife is the former Frances Margurite Byrd, who has two daughters by a former marriage. W. MONTAGUE COBB, M.D. LITERATURE CITED
1. COBB, W.M. In, "Negroes in Medicine," by Dietrich C. Reitzes. Chap. X. The Nation's Capital-Washington, D.C., Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1958, pp. 190-230. 2. Medico-Chi at Ninety, 1884-1974. JNMA, v. 66, pp. 257-261, 1974. 3. SWIFT, L.R. Medical Mission to Moscow. JNMA, v. 53, pp. 346-351, 1961. 4. MAZIQUE, E.C. Public Health and Medical Care in Russia. JNMA, v. 53, pp. 352-355, 1961. 5. Ojike Nigerian Hospital Project. JNMA, v. 56, pp. 112-114, 1964. 6. Douglas Wilkerson Mazique. JNMA, v. 56, p. 550, 1964. PUBLICATIONS BY DR. EDWARD C. MAZIQUE
1. Disseminate Lupus Erythematosus Unsuccessfully Treated with Penicillin, Roentgen Ray Castration and Serum Albumin. Ann. Int. Med., v. 25, p. 859, 1946. 2. Integration Enters Medicine (President's Inaugural Address). JNMA, v. 51, pp. 381-390, 1959. 3. Fellows of the NMA (President's Column). JNMA, v. 51, pp. 388, 397, 1959. 4. Doctors and Lawyers (President's Column). JNMA, v. 51, pp. 474, 495, 1959. (Concluded on page 443.)
Vol. 67, No. 6
Ruptured Tubo-Ovarian Abscess
tubo-ovarian masses, diagnosis usually presents little problem. In the absence of a history of previous infection and particularly in dealing with older patients, diagnosis may be difficult. Many other causes of abdominal pain such as ectopic pregnancy, ovarian torsion, appendicitis, diverticulitis, acute colitis, perforated peptic ulcer, and mechanical intestinal obstruction of whatever cause may produce many of the same symptoms. CONCLUSION
Intra-abdominal rupture of a pelvic abscess is a serious complication of pelvic inflammatory disease. Management consists of vigorous supportive measures and antibiotic therapy followed within a few hours by surgery, usually hysterectomy, with bilateral salpingooophorectomy and drainage. Appendectomy is recommended where possible. Antibiotics should be type specific where possible but always intensive in concentration and broad in spectrum. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The author wishes to express his appreciation to Miss Olga Boich, medical records administrator, Queen of Angels Hospital, Miss Marilyn Stiefel, medical records administrator, Temple Hospital, and to Mrs. Joelle Jennings and Ms. Sharyn Lloyd, Queen of Angels Hospital for their assistance in the preparation of this paper. LITERATURE CITED
1. RICCI, J. The Geneology of Gynecology. Phila.: The Blackiston Co. 1950. 2. FLEMING, A. Discovery of Penicillin. Brit. J. Exper. Path., 10:226, 1929. 3. JONES, C. P. and B. CARTER, W. THOMAS and R. N. CREADICK. Antibiotic and Chemotherapeutic Agents in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Obstet. & Gynecol., 5:365, 1955. 4. DUBOS, R. J. Studies on Bactericidal Agent Extracted from Soil Bacillus; Preparation of Agent. Its Activity In-vitro, J. Exper. Med., 70:1, 1939.
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5. CHAIN, E. and F. P. FLOREY and W. ALLEN. Penicillin as a Chemotherapeutic Agent. Lancet, 2:226, 1940. 6. FLOREY, H. W. and M. A. JENNINGS. Some Biological Properties of Highly Purified Penicillin. Brit. J. Exper. Patho., 23:120, 1942. 7. WALKER, V. N. and W. S. BAKER, Jr. Surgical Management of Acute Pelvic Infection Refractory to Conservative Therapy. Am. J. Obstet. & Gynecol., 82:497, 1961. 8. COLLINS, C. G. and F. W. JANSEN. Treatment of Pelvic Abscess. Clin. Obstet. & Gynecol., 2:512, 1959. 9. De ALVAREZ, R. R. and D. C. FIGGE. Influence of Antibiotics on Pelvic Inflammatory Disease. Obstet. & Gynecol., 5:765, 1955. 10. TE LINDE, R. W. Operative Gynecology. 2nd ed. Phila.: J. B. Lippincott, Co. 1953. 11. MOHLER, R. W. Study and Classification of Pelvic Inflammatory Disease. Am. J. Obstet. & Gynecol., 57:1077, 1949. 12. TRACTENBERG, I. Clinical Evaluation and Analysis of 268 Cases of Pelvic Infection. J. Internat. Coll. Surg., 9:724, 1946. 13. TRITSCH, J. E. and I. H. SAXE and E. SCHNEIDER. Pelvic Inflammatory Disease: Survey of 300 Consecutive Cases, with Special Reference to Treatment. N. Eng. J. Med., 235:414, 1946. 14. BADRA, P. L. and J. R. YOUNG, R. K. LAROS, Jr. and E. P. PETERSON. Suppurative Salpingitis after Laparoscopic Tubal Cauterization. Obstet. & Gynecol., 42:511, 1973. 15. WRIGHT, F. C. Tubo-ovarian Abscess Associated with Laparoscopic Tubal Cauterization and the Intrauterine Contraceptive Device. Am. J. Obstet. & Gynecol., 119:1133, 1974. 16. PHILLIPS, J. A Spectrum of Radiologic Abnormalities due to Tubo-ovarian Abscess. Radiology, 110:336, 1974. 17. HOHNER, C., et al. Symposium on Management of Gyn Infections. Cont. Obstet. & Gynecol., 5:128, 1975. 18. DUDLEY, A. G. and,F. LEE, and D. BARCLAY. Ovarian and Tubo-ovarian Abscess in Pregnancy: Report of a Case and Review of the Literature. Military Med., 135:403, 1970. 19. AINSWORTH, G. D. and F. LEE, and D. BARCLAY. Ovarian and Tubo-ovarian Abscess in Pregnancy. Military Med., 135:403, 1970.
(Mazique, from page 476.) 9. Medical Dimensions in the Nuclear Age (Presi5. Meetings and Reflections Thereon. (President's dent's Retiring Address). JNMA, v. 52, pp. 352Column). JNMA, v. 52, pp. 52, 71, 1960. 360, 1960. 6. Doctors and Politics (President's Column). 10. Public Health and Medical Care in Russia. JNMA, v. 52, pp. 136, 151, 1960. JNMA, v. 53, pp. 352-355, 1961. 7. A Governor's Health Conference (President's 11. Ojike Nigerian Hospital Project. JNMA, v. 56, Column). JNMA, v. 52, pp. 198, 219, 1960. pp. 112-114, 1964. 8. Southern Exposure (President's Column). JNMA, v. 52, pp. 278, 314, 1960.
