Annals of Military and Naval Surgery and Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 11864 |
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Common terms and phrases
admissions into hospital admitted amongst amount appears Army Assistant-Surgeon attack average strength barracks Battalion Bengal blood Bombay bowels cause cent character chest China cholera cicatrix climate cold condition Corfu cure death-rate deaths delirium delirium tremens diarrhoea died diet discharge disease doses dysentery effect endemic epidemic European fatal favourable force Fort Pitt frequently hæmorrhage hepatic abscess increase India inflammation influence injury Inspector-General instances invalided ipecacuanha latter leprosy lesions less liver lower deck lungs Madras malarious Malta mean strength medical officers ment military months native nature observed occurred operation pain patient period Peshawur phthisis present prevalence proportion quinine racter ratio Regiment remarks remedy remittent removed Report Royal Artillery sanitary season ship sickness and mortality skin soldier station suffered surgeon symptoms syphilis temperature tion total number treatment troops tropical typhoid fever ulceration Umballa ventilation vessels wound yellow fever
Popular passages
Page 324 - Bombay," there is a paper by this gentleman, entitled " Cases of Cardiac Disease and Tubercular Phthisis occurring in the Queen's Royal Regiment." In this paper Dr. Hunter thus expressed his views : — " Ever since I joined the 2nd Queen's Royal Regiment
Page 310 - Not all who come in contact with the poison have the disease, for individual susceptibility and predisposition differ in different individuals, and in the same individual at different times. In...
Page 356 - That trained medical officers of health be appointed, to act in peace as in war, in connexion with these commissions. 36. That in order to render available for India the experience obtained in dealing with all classes of sanitary questions in England, two officers of the Indian Government be appointed in England to be associated with the War Office Commission for this special purpose : unless it should be thought preferable to appoint a similar commission specially for the Indian Department.
Page 224 - Wo get other fainter indications of other rifts here and there, and the question whether these rifts agree in the photograph taken in Spain with those in that taken in Syracuse is one of great importance; and it is to be hoped that before long it will be set at rest. Some observers think they agree; others think they do not. But there is an important consideration based on that photograph, to which I must draw your particular attention. I have shown you the photograph as it may be thrown on the screen;...
Page 219 - He affirms, on the contrary, that when we have just grounds for believing that abscess of the liver exists, we ought not to lose a day in evacuating it by puncture, and that we are both justified and safe in endeavouring to hit upon it with a trocar when deep-seated, avoiding the gall-bladder and large veins.
Page 191 - ... they would rather submit to this process than taste the bitter of quinine. I have never seen the slightest inflammation or irritation follow the operation except in two instances. In one of these this result was due to the instruments employed — namely, a small trocar and common glass syringe ; in the other, to quinine in suspension being used instead of in solution. Indeed, I have reason to...
Page 128 - The periodical occurrence of yellow fever, with intervals of immunity, has its parallel in a fact well known to the students of the Diatomacece and Desmidiacete, namely, that particular species which are known to exist in a definite pond or pool one season, may be at another replaced by forms never before detected in the same spot; while, again, the original species, under favourable and often unaccountable circumstances, reappear after the lapse of a certain time.
Page 203 - ... are stopped, the pulse becomes stronger, the heat and strength of the system are quickly restored, and time is allowed for medicines to act. The tourniquet may be applied to two or to the four extremities, according to the effect intended to be produced. When the individual is weak, and the state of collapse great, more care is required in emptying, by friction, the blood in the veins of the extremity to be bandaged ; and the effect will be more marked if the tourniquet be applied to four extremities....
Page 349 - That by far the larger proportion of the mortality and inefficiency in the Indian army has arisen from endemic diseases, and notably from fevers, diarrhoea, dysentery, cholera, and from diseases of the liver. 2. That the predisposition to these diseases is in part attributable to malaria, in conjunction with extremes of temperature, moisture, and variability. 3. But that there are other causes of a very active kind in India connected with stations, barracks, hospitals, and the habits of the men,...
Page 38 - ... region of the bladder. The ball fell on the ground at his feet without either injuring his clothes or even marking the skin. He did not feel much pain at the time, and walked to the hospital, a distance of two miles, with the ball in his pocket, without feeling much pain; but he died shortly afterwards from peritonitis and extensive inflammation of the bladder. The entire surface of the abdomen presented the appearance of a severe bruise in a few hours after being struck.