The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences: Being a Digest of British and Continental Medicine, and of the Progress of Medicine and the Collateral SciencesJ. Churchill, 1870 |
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Page 94 - BY WILLIAM A. HAMMOND, MD, Professor of Diseases of the Mind and Nervous System In the...
Page 54 - The indications are four : — > " 1. To remove the cause. 2. To improve the general tone of the system. 3. To increase the amount of blood in the spinal cord, and improve the nutrition of this organ. 4. To set up a counter-irritant action in the vicinity of the disordered region of the cord.
Page 258 - ... afford immediate relief to distension at a very slight risk to the mother, and lead to the natural termination of pregnancy in the birth of a living child, if proper precautions be taken to prevent the escape of ovarian fluid into the peritoneal cavity, and the entrance of air into this cavity, and into the cavity of the cyst.
Page 72 - Spender begins, then, by desiring an adult patient to take a pill composed as above three times a day, immediately after the principal meals. He is cautioned that at first there will be probably no apparent effect, and that two or even three days may pass before any medicinal evacuation of the bowels takes place, perhaps even then difficult and discomforting. But within the next forty-eight hours there will be most likely an evacuation of the bowels once or possibly twice in the day; but nothing...
Page 119 - ... in which every kind of operation fails to call forth consciousness. 3. During the narcotism, there are intervals of apparent exalted sensibility. 4. In the transition from drowsiness to stupor, there is no stage of muscular excitement; but in birds there is vomiting, as is common in the same animal in the second stage of narcotism from chloroform.
Page 114 - ... resisted great doses of opium, Indian hemp, etc., 120 grains failed to produce any effect. When used for anodyne and other medicinal purposes, a continuation of smaller doses — as 10 or 20 grains several times a day — is sufficient. In administering chloral I have given it only by the mouth and by enema ; almost always as a draught. It is somewhat acrid and pungent to most palates, and hence requires to be diluted well with water, and to have added to it a large quantity of syrup.
Page 125 - ... comparing it with chloroform and other anaesthetics containing chlorine. He showed that this ether produced no excitation of the nervous centres which supply the vascular system as chloroform does ; and that, consequently, there was absence of muscular spasm, of contraction of bloodvessels and of syncope from fatal contraction of the heart. When it was carried to the extent of arresting life in the inferior animals it produced death, by paralyzing the organic nervous centres. This extreme result...
Page 72 - The quantity of extract of aloes, in all but extraordinary cases, should not exceed one grain. It is conveniently given in the form of a pill. With this pill there should always be mixed a dose of sulphate of iron, varying from one to three grains ; this is the essential point of the treatment. Any other tonic of the neurotic kind cannot supply the place of the iron ; for the purpose I am now relating, iron is not onlyfaci/e princeps, but is not interchangeable by anything else.
Page 39 - All that is required is a spirit-lamp with a sufficiently large wick. Such lamps are made of tin. and sold by most surgical instrument makers. The lamp should hold sufficient spirit to burn for half an hour. The patient sits undressed in a chair with the lamp between his feet, rather than under the chair. An attendant then takes two or three blankets and folds them...
Page 113 - I am not aware of any special contraindications to the employment of chloral when used for somniferous purposes. Even in head and chest affections, where I should have been chary of having recourse to opium as an hypnotic, I have employed chloral with perfect success. The contraindications to opium offered by a tendency to constipation, etc., do not exist against chloral.