The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly Journal Containing a Retrospective View of Every Discovery and Practical Improvement in the Medical Sciences ..., Partes 32-33

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W. A. Townsend Publishing Company, 1856
 

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Página 58 - ... 3. Wipe and cleanse the mouth and nostrils. "4. In order to restore the natural warmth of the body : move a heated covered warming-pan over the back and spine. Put bladders or bottles of hot water, or heated bricks, to the pit of the stomach, the arm-pits, between the thighs, and to the soles of the feet. Foment the body with hot flannels.
Página 346 - If the child be at the breast, keep him entirely to it. If he be weaned, and under two years old, give him milk and water and cold water to drink. If he be older, give him toast and water, and plain water from the pump, as much as he chooses ; let it be quite cold — the colder the better. Weak black tea, or thin gruel, may be given, but not caring, unless he be an infant at the breast, if he take nothing but cold water.
Página 161 - ... on each side. A grooved director, slightly curved, and small enough to pass readily through the stricture, is next introduced, and confided to one of the assistants. The surgeon, sitting or kneeling on one knee, now makes an incision in the middle line of the perinaeum or penis, wherever the stricture is seated.
Página 208 - ... from puerperal fever that he determined to deliver no more for some time, but that his partner should attend in his place. This plan was pursued for one month, during which not a case of the disease occurred in their practice. The elder practitioner, being then sufficiently recovered, returned to his practice, but the first patient he attended was attacked by the disease and died.
Página 208 - Dr. Ramsbotham asserted, in a Lecture at the London Hospital, that he had known the disease spread through a particular district, or be confined to the practice of a particular person, almost every patient being attacked with it, while others had not a single case. It...
Página 283 - V. Replace the patient on his face, his arms under his head, that the tongue may fall forward, and leave the entrance into the •windpipe free, and that any fluids may flow out of...
Página 27 - She could still flex the thigh on the pelvis, and the leg on the thigh, but she could not raise her heel from the bed.
Página 134 - Such were the effects of liquor potassae on the urine. The effect produced on other excretions was not obvious. The skin and the intestines appeared quite unaffected, and as all the potash was found in the urine, the reason of this is easily understood. In most of the experiments there were no subjective symptoms of any kind. On two occasions, there was rather sharp frontal headache, languor, depression, slight lumbar pain, and aching of the legs, after the large flow of urine. On the night of the...
Página 44 - M. on the following day, I again introduced the tube into the dog's larynx, and conveying it down, nearly the whole length of his trachea, but not below the tracheal bifurcation, I injected into the bronchi the ounce syringe full of a strong solution of the nitrate of silver, of the strength of thirty grains to the ounce of water. This amount, in proportion to the weight of the animal, would be equivalent to three ounces of the solution of this strength to an adult. The respiration of the animal...
Página 211 - In the cervical canal the mucous membrane was perfect ; but at the os uteri internum, it ceased as abruptly as though it had been dissected away with a knife above this point. Blood was oozing at numerous points from broken vessels in the sub-mucous tissue.

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