The Practitioner, Volume 16

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John Brigg, 1876
 

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Page 85 - A Treatise on Human Physiology : designed for the use of Students and Practitioners of Medicine. By JOHN C. DALTON, MD, Professor of Physiology and Hygiene in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York.
Page 241 - how far the present use of rivers or running waters in England for the purpose of carrying off the sewage of towns and populous places, and the refuse arising from industrial processes and manufactures, can be prevented without risk to the public health, or serious injury to such processes and manufactures...
Page 368 - In the preface to that work it is however distinctly stated that these doses "are not authoritatively enjoined " and that "the practitioner must rely on his own judgment and act on his own responsibility in graduating the doses of any therapeutic agents which he may wish to administer to his patients.
Page 452 - ... drug ingested. On awakening, the patient may return at once to his normal condition, but very often he experiences a state of depression, as shown by languor, a little headache, nausea, or even vomiting, which may last for some hours.
Page 106 - Handbook, for the administration of opium in excitement and furious delirium, was to combine it with antimony. "Each drug seems to assist the action of the other; and the relative doses must be determined by the circumstances of the case. In furious delirium the tartar emetic must be given in full, and the opium in small quantities; while, if wakefulness is the chief symptom, the delirium being not very boisterous, the dose of tartar emetic must be reduced and the opium increased.
Page 232 - For example, ten drops of the tincture of the chloride of iron, ten drops of tinct nucis voinicse, and one drachm of sweet spirits of nitre may be given three times a day. Cod-liver oil increases the red corpuscles of the blood, because it is digested by the liver, and the product enters into them as an ingredient. The irritability of the...
Page 168 - Thousands were carried off for want of nourishment and care as well as by dysentery and congestion of the lungs...
Page 238 - Commission propose the following general plan for the organisation and business of the congress : — I. The congress shall consist of delegates, American and foreign, the former representing the American Medical Association and the State and Territorial Medical Societies of the Union ; the latter, the principal medical societies of other countries. II. The...
Page 241 - England for the purpose of carrying off the sewage of towns and populous places, and the refuse arising from industrial processes and manufactures, can be prevented without risk to the public health or serious injury to such processes and manufactures ; and how far such sewage and refuse can be...
Page 479 - A TEXT-BOOK OF HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY; Designed for the Use of Practitioners and Students of Medicine. Illustrated by plates, and 313 wood engravings, large 8vo, 28s.

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