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abdomen abscess acid aconite acute albuminuria antiseptic appeared asphyxia attack Blackley Blake blood bowels bronchi bronchitis bryonia Carfrae catalepsy catarrhal cause chest chronic condition congestion cough cow-pox cured Cyclopædia deafness diarrhoea dilatation dilution diphtheria discharge disease doses drug action DUDGEON Dyce Brown dyspnoea eczema EDWARD BLAKE effects eruption especially expectoration experience eyes fact fever followed frequently give given glands hæmorrhage Hahnemann headache homœopathic hospital Hughes increased indicated inflammation irritation kefir larynx London lung lymph Materia Medica medicine months morbid mucous membrane mucus nausea nervous observed occurred operation organs pain paper pathology patient pessary pneumonia poisoning polypi practice prescribed present produced provings pulse râles regard relieved remedy removed ROTH seen sepia skin sleep small-pox somnambulism suffered symptoms tartar emetic temperature therapeutic thought throat tinnitus tion tissue tongue tracheotomy treated treatment tumour ulceration urine uterus vaccination vascular vomiting
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Page 275 - It will, in short, become possible to introduce into the economy a molecular mechanism which, like a very cunningly contrived torpedo, shall find its way to some particular group of living elements, and cause an explosion among them, leaving the rest untouched.
Page 6 - The younger part of the population of this and the surrounding villages, from the age of thirty downwards, began to be deprived of the use of their limbs below the waist by paralytic strokes, in all cases sudden, but in some more severe than in others. About half the youth of this village of both sexes became affected during the years 1833 and 1834 ; and many of them have lost the use of their lower limbs entirely, and are unable to move.
Page 436 - Regarding nntipyrin, he thought that if we did use drugs that were not proved, we must be all the more precise in using them. Dr. ROTH wished to call the attention of the Society to the fact that medicines...
Page 360 - Nasal Polypus, with Neuralgia, Hay Fever and Asthma in Relation to Ethmoiditis.
Page 130 - ... thighs were thickly covered with an eruption of bright red, small, conical, distinct, hard pimples with an inflamed base like lichen simplex. The itching from this was intolerable, irritating him at times almost to frenzy. This began to appear on the fifth day of the use of the drug...
Page 597 - There is frequently, too, an increased and excoriating catarrhal secretion from the nasal mucous membrane. These accompaniments probably do not stand to one another in the relation of cause and effect, but are the general and local signs, as De Wecker puts it, of a feeble power of cuticular resistance. In obstinate cases — in...
Page 524 - ... sequelae. 3. Treatment constitutional and local. In looking through the literature of diphtheria nothing strikes one so much as the vast array of drugs, each one of which in its turn has been vaunted as a specific when used internally or topically applied. How few of these, alas, have borne the test of experience is only too well known, and it would serve no useful purpose to go into detail as to cases treated with most of these. During the last decade, however, our allopathic confreres have...
Page 77 - Let us build further and more securely upon foundations already laid, and not allow ourselves to be enticed too far into the proving of new and perhaps valueless or unneeded materials. Unless an article promises to be useful in spheres in which we require new remedies...
Page 129 - Saurel (Rev. Therap. du Midi, 1855, p. 109) when advising the treatment of pneumonia by tartar emetic, says, " I know that in cases of poisoning by tartar emetic various symptoms of irritation and marked dyspnoea are observed during life, and after death engorgement or hepatisation of the lungs, the principal cause of these symptoms. This," he adds, " may give a kind of pleasure to the partisans of similia simililnis.
Page 479 - ... These may arise either from the weakened state of the muscular tissue, or from a disturbance of the controlling power of the pneumogastrics. But these doctrines, which embody the generally received views on the subject, have lately been impugned by Dr. Handfield Jones, in a very able and interesting paper read before the British Medical Association, at its annual meeting, in London, August, 1862. It is published at length in the British Medical Journal, of August 23d, in that year. Dr. H. Jones...