The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences: Being a Digest of British and Continental Medicine, and of the Progess of Medicine and the Collateral Sciences, Volumes 48-49

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J. Churchill, 1869
 

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Página 106 - Dose, 2 grains, after each meal. Bismuth probably aids digestion more than any mineral tonic, and is of use when there is gastric disturbance. The bromides are serviceable when the nervous system has been irritated; when it is exhausted they do harm. Phosphorus is very useful in most forms of nervous headache. The best results are obtained from dilute phosphoric acid, in doses of...
Página 58 - Ccd-liver oil, when taken into the system in sufficient quantities, and for a sufficient length of time, acts as a nutrient, not only adding to the fat of the body, but also promoting the healthy growth of other tissues, and in some way, as an alterative, counteracting the morbid tendency to the proliferation of the decaying cells of pus, tubercle, and kindred cacoplastic and aplastic matters.
Página 23 - ... or by nitrate of potash, and they observe : "It appears to us that there is not sufficient evidence to prove that any of the advocated systems of treatment have power to prevent the heart becoming diseased.
Página 175 - The treatment consisted in the application of a strong solution of nitrate of silver to the scrotum of the affected side, followed by gentle pressure.
Página 156 - ... overlapping the paste half an inch all round; this must be left for a short period, say ten minutes, by which time any superabundant paste will have been taken up by the extra lint, which is then to be carefully cut away with a sharp pair of scissors ; in an hour, or at most two, the lint covering the paste will have become dry and hard, and it will adhere closely and firmly to the cancer. In the course of twenty-four hours the surrounding parts will commence to swell, become red, and to a certain...
Página 20 - The means by which typhoid fever may be prevented from spreading are very simple, very sure, and their cost next to nothing. They are founded on the discovery that the poison by which this fever spreads is almost entirely contained in the discharges from the bowels. These discharges infect — 1. The air of the sick room. 2. The bed and body linen of the patient. 3. The privy and the cesspool; or the drains proceeding from them. From the privy or drain the poison often soaks into the well, and infects...
Página 97 - The blood, from the swollen infiltrated cellular structures of the head and nose, where the snake inflicted the severest bite, presented a peculiar appearance; thousands of small acicular crystals were mingled with the altered blood-corpuscles, and as the bloody serum and effused blood dried, the blood-corpuscles seemed to be transformed into crystalline masses, shooting out into crystals of hcematin in all directions.
Página 62 - The only way to ascertain what that dose is, is to make each case a separate experiment, and this can only be done in the way I describe. 7. By giving the remedy three or four hours before the attack is likely to come on, the treatment becomes prophylactic. If by taking a dose every night for thirty nights the attacks have been for that time prevented, the patient has ceased to be an asthmatic for a month. This is a very different thing from having had thirty attacks in the same time which have been...
Página 88 - The affected part should be well washed with soap and water, then with water alone, to remove every particle of soap, as the soap would decompose the nitrate of silver ; then to be wiped dry with a soft towel. The concentrated solution of four scruples of the nitrate of silver to four...
Página 157 - ... forty-eight hours to three days, according to circumstances, bread-and-water poultices are to be constantly applied and changed every two or three hours ; the pain, redness, and swelling will by this time have subsided, and a distinct line of demarcation be seen extending entirely around the cancerous mass ; the skin ulcerates, and a fissure is formed, separating the slough from the healthy tissues ; the fissure continues to deepen, until the entire cancer comes away, leaving a healthy cup-like...

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