Medico-chirurgical Transactions, Volume 421859 |
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Achillis affected amount of urea amputations amputations of expediency aneurism appearance artery astragalus attack bladder blood bone bowel breast Bright's disease bronchus cancer carotid cause of death cavity cent chest chloride of sodium cicatrix cold stage commenced connexion corresponding dilatation disease dislocation Dispensary divided extremities dose examination extension fatal formed fracture Guy's Hospital H.M. the Queen hæmorrhage hernia hernial sac hot stage hour humerus inch increased Infirmary inguinal canal inoculations instances kidney King's College Hospital Lecturer limb lung Medicine months muscles nerve observed occurred old tendon opening operation orifice oscillation ozonized pain paralysis passed patient period peritoneal peritoneum Physician portion posterior pressure pulsation pulse pyæmia quantity reduced remained reparative process result rise Royal scirrhus scrotum secondary sheath side sores strangulated street surface Surgeon sweating stage symptoms temperature tendo Achillis thigh tion tissue Trans tumour upper urea urine uterus whilst WILLIAM
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Page 337 - ... their tendons, obtained by means of subcutaneous division, and the development of new tendon formed for the purpose of reuniting the divided extremities of the old tendon. The mechanical and physiological effects of this increased length of the tendons were described; and lastly the author stated that when recontraction of the foot takes place, and the deformity returns at a distant period after tenotomy, this does not depend upon absorption of the new material, or new tendinous tissue formed...
Page 298 - That in children, though not so in adults, a tolerance of the remedy is speedily established, so that the dose may be safely increased, rapidly, but gradually. 4thly. That special care should be taken in apportioning the dose to the age of the patient, and in not increasing the dose too rapidly, inasmuch as the usual toxical effects of the drug will be produced if too large a dose be given before a sufficient tolerance of the drug has been established.
Page 324 - ... a blastematous material, in which the cell forms do not develop beyond the stage of nuclei, appears to be the proper reparative material from which new tendon is developed. This nucleated blastema soon becomes vascular, capillary vessels having been seen in it on the eighteenth day ; the nuclei assume an elongated, spindle, or oat-shaped form, and are seen after the addition of acetic acid to be arranged in parallel linear series. The tissue becomes gradually more fibrillated...
Page 298 - ... found that, however given, very small doses usually produce dryness of the tongue and fauces ; that two grains daily will often excite vertigo and dizziness, and that it is not possible to establish a tolerance of the larger doses as in children. He was thus led to the conclusion that — 1st. The tolerance of belladonna is not attributable to the counteracting influence of choreic spasms, but is in some way connected with the age of the patient. 2dly. That a much larger dose than is usually...
Page 83 - That exhaustion is the cause of death in 33 per cent, of the fatal cases, and in 8 per cent, of the whole number amputated.
Page 147 - The average number of children produced by eacli married woman was 5' 2 among the uterine cases, and 3^89 among those with cancer in other situations. (3.) The duration of life was found to vary greatly, according to the seat of the disease. In the cases of cancer of 'the breast, those who had been operated on lived 53 months, whilst those in whom the disease was allowed to take its natural course lived only 33 months.
Page 414 - Transactions,' died on April 19th, 1859, a year after the operation. On a post-mortem examination, no stone was discovered in the bladder. The kidneys were somewhat congested, but in other respects healthy in appearance. There was an opening in the bladder at the lower part of the posterior wall, of the diameter of a goose-quill, evidently not of recent date. The bladder, corresponding to this aperture, was intimately united by old adhesions to that part of the circumference of the sigmoid flexure...
Page 85 - ... number. 5. That traumatic complications prove fatal in 15 per cent, of the fatal cases, and secondary hemorrhage, cerebral or thoracic complications, about 7 per cent, each; renal disease proving a cause of death, in 3'5 per cent. Secondary Amputations. — 1. That 50 per cent, are fatal ; 68 per esnt of the lower extremity, and 12'5 per cent of the upper.
Page 147 - Phthisis was traced in 37 per cent, of the families of the cancer patients. (6.) In reference to secondary cancer, it was found that the disease was either local or did not extend beyond the lymphatic glands in about half the cases. There were secondary tumours in 79 per cent, of the breast cancers, in 23 per cent, of the uterine cases, and in 54 per cent, of the instances of true cancer in other organs. (7.) That a great variety of diseases was found in the bodies of those dying with cancer.
Page 343 - I prescribed the oil totally divested of all prejudice in its favour, and I have always been reluctant on imperfect grounds to refer results to the operation of medicines. If ozonized oil can reduce the rapidity of the circulation — a feature of great prominence in phthisis, — this remedy possesses a most valuable property, rendered still more valuable by its contributing at the same time to improve the general health.