Therapeutic means for the relief of pain

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MacMillan, 1874 - 230 pages
 

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Page 229 - Allbutt (TC)— ON THE USE OF THE OPHTHALMOSCOPE in Diseases of the Nervous System and of the Kidneys ; also in certain other General Disorders. By THOMAS CLIFFORD ALLBUTT, MA, MD Cantab., Physician to the Leeds General Infirmary, Lecturer on Practical Medicine, &c.
Page 79 - Two such opposed kings encamp them still In man as well as herbs, grace and rude will; And where the worser is predominant, Full soon the canker death eats up that plant.
Page 229 - Plates. 410. $s. 6d. ON THE TREATMENT OF HYPERPYREXIA, AS ILLUSTRATED IN ACUTE ARTICULAR RHEUMATISM BY MEANS OF THE EXTERNAL APPLICATION OF COLD. 8vo.
Page 1 - pleasure is a reflex of the spontaneous and unimpeded exertion of a power of whose energy we are conscious ; pain is a reflex of the overstrained or repressed exertion of such a power.
Page 218 - It is merely to use strips of plaster, putting on two or three layers in the following manner : — The first strip is laid on obliquely in the direction of the ribs, the second across the course of the ribs, the third in the direction of the first, about half overlapping it, the fourth as the second, and so on until the entire side is covered. A strip is also passed over the shoulder, which is kept down by another fixed round the side across its ends.
Page 13 - And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it. His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow: and for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.
Page 95 - He arrives at the following conclusions : 1. Chloral is an agent of great value in the relief of pain during parturition. 2. It may be administered under favorable circumstances during and at the close of the second stage, with the result of producing absolute unconsciousness in the same sense in which we understand unconsciousness under chloroform. 3. When thus given successfully, it has this advantage over chloroform, that it requires no interference with the patient. 4. It is desirable to retain...
Page 73 - habitual " diseases, in which the recurrence keeps up the tendency, prophylactic treatment has, in relation to final cure, a preeminence it does not possess in diseases in which habit has no place. For such diseases it is the treatment. It does more than spare your patient an attack of his malady ; it breaks, pro tanto, that chain of sequences which is the very life of the morbid tendency.
Page 96 - ... we expect the labour to recommence with fresh vigour and effect. The disadvantage of this plan, however, is that during the action of the remedy the labour is suspended, and much time is thus lost. If, however, chloral is administered instead of the opiate ordinarily employed, the probabilities are that the same refreshing rest will be obtained without any suspension of the pains or protraction of the labour. The character of the uterine contractions will be observed to alter ; they will become...
Page 18 - ... was burning hot, took it out and deliberately returned it to its proper place to the destruction of the skin of the palm and fingers. This of itself would be an accident of incessant occurrence if the monitor were wanting which makes us drop such materials more hastily than we pick them up. Pain is the grand preserver of existence...

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