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Page 148 - ... adhesion of the organ to the parietes, and so facilitated the future opening of the abscess. When, on the other hand, no pus was found, a good deal of anxiety was felt in the earlier cases lest the puncture should be followed by any evil results. Such moments of anxiety soon ceased...
Page 212 - I have had instances," he says, "of a disease which, though evidently arising from the chin-cough contagion, never put on any other form than that of a common catarrh.
Page 251 - By this she meant that there were differences in the kinds of fat accumulated under the subcutaneous tissues of men just as there are differences in subcutaneous fats which accumulate in horses. The horse fed on grass soon gets thin by hard work, while the fat laid on when the horse is feeding on hay and corn is much more permanent. Persons fattened on cod-liver oil soon lose the fatness again, and this, I think, points to the power of ready transformation which the oil possesses. Supposing that...
Page 252 - Supposing that it does possess this power, we can readily see how very advantageous it will be. In chronic bronchitis and in catarrh and pneumonia we have a rapid cellgrowth, but want of development. The cells lining the respiratory cavities are produced in great numbers, but they do not grow as they ought to do. They remain more or less lymphoid cells instead of developing into proper epithelium. They so rapidly form and are thrown off so quickly that they have not time to get proper nutriment,...
Page 33 - Bright's disease, and yet it seemed distinct from both. As to treatment, much might be done by good management, by which he meant the adjusting of the quantity and quality of the food to the diminished excrementitious activity, the withholding of such agents as directly lessen the secretory power of the kidney, aiding the kidney in its work by making the supplementary excretory organs fulfil that part of the work which the kidney was unable to do, and generally by placing the patient in those conditions...
Page 148 - ... could be detected. Such patients presented symptoms varying in every degree. At the one extreme, cases of general cachexia, with irregular slight febrile attacks, would exhibit symptoms as frequently attributable to deranged stomach or bowels or lungs only, as to the liver itself; while at the other, slight general enlargement of the organ would be found associated with that peculiar form of
Page 99 - Account of an Investigation into the Action of Galvanism on Blood and on Albuminous Fluids.
Page 351 - at the outset one abscess of considerable size. Such occurs only by the coalescence of a number of small ones seated in the follicles. Meanwhile, the muscular tissue, which constitutes so large a portion of the prostate gland, is unaffected, except that it is in a constant state of contraction, thereby inducing urethral and rectal tenesmus.
Page 222 - Three or four fragments had been successively crushed when it was found that the screw and two pins by which the lithotrite is fastened to the shaft had given way, so that the two portions of the instrument became separated. No means for connecting the handle with the shaft could be extemporized.
Page 183 - Murchison have most authoritatively shown that it is neither necessary nor useful to extract the whole of the fluid, and that the removal of just so much as may be necessary to relieve substantially the mechanical distress will in most cases give the necessary spur to the natural process of absorption, by means of which the rest of the fluid will be taken up. One rule seems absolute ; the withdrawal of fluid must be arrested the moment that the patient begins to complain of constricting pain in the...