The Year-book of treatment for 1884-1899 v.10, 1894, Volume 10Cassell & Company, Limited, 1894 |
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Page 20 - Barling showed, at a meeting of the Birmingham and Midland Counties branch of the British Medical Association...
Page 43 - The authors conclude that the human organism is in no wise appreciably affected by the most powerful magnets known to modern science ; that neither direct nor reversed magnetism exerts any perceptible influence upon the iron contained in the blood, upon the circulation, upon ciliary or protoplasmic movements, upon sensory or motor nerves, or upon the brain.
Page 45 - Assistant Physician to the Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, Brompton ; Lecturer on Materia Medica at the Charing Cross School of Medicine and Assistant Physician to the Hospital Sm.
Page 288 - Fiscal. 2. That in each sanitary district a registered medical practitioner should be appointed as public medical certifier of the cause of death in cases in which a certificate from a medical practitioner in attendance is not forthcoming.
Page 51 - ... following days. From this time the patient's condition commenced to improve in a remarkable fashion. The jaundice soon began to diminish, and the appetite was better. Eventually even the liver became less in size, as well as the spleen. At the time of his discharge, after three months of such treatment, the jaundice had disappeared, there was no bile pigment in the urine, and the stools were pale-yellow in Keview, Aug.
Page 32 - These are the chief signs. Kast is of the opinion that a cumulative action of the drug produces, instead of a transitory diminution of the nervous excitability, a permanent depression thereof, just similar to that caused by a single large dose. He finds that the dose best calculated to produce a hypnotic effect is about 30 grains for a man and half the quantity for a woman.
Page 25 - ... do is to breathe, and so frightened are we for congestion, even passive congestion of the lung, that we act as if we placed them in peril by permitting- them to make the slightest effort. Yet here we are giving a medicine which produces vomiting, during which the face swells, the blood stagnates in the veins by which it is being conveyed to the auricles: and consequently, the pulmonary veins become distended. One might expect that such treatment would cause the haemoptysis to return in a much...
Page 48 - Diarrhea due to dietetic errors, and that which is common in adults and infants in summer, is well controlled by the administration of salol and bismuth or chalk. 2. Opium is rarely necessary where salol is used. 3. Salol controls the abdominal pain equally as well as opium. 4. It is perfectly safe, having no bad after-effects. 5. It constantly corrects the fetor of the stools.
Page 181 - ... reality of the suffering or the benefit derived from the operation. The curative effects of the proceeding are most gratifying if the sutures are made to pass into the kidney-substance and the loose fibre-cellular capsule is shortened and stitched also to the muscles and fascia of the loin. Tuffier stated at the Surgical Congress in Paris, when speaking on the distant results of renal surgery, that in every case of nephrorrhaphy the result was perfect when the operation was clearly indicated.
Page 297 - ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MEDICINE. By American Teachers. Edited by WILLIAM PEPPER, MD, LL.D., Provost and Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine and of Clinical Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania.