Anemia in Porto Rico

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Bureau of printing and supplies, 1904 - 120 páginas
 

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Página 64 - If the patient is directed to stare intently into the observer's eyes, there will be noticed a symptom which it is difficult to describe, but which I have found more constant than almost any other noticed, namely: After a moment, the length of time apparently varying slightly according to the degree of the disease, the pupils dilate and the patient's eyes assume a dull, blank, almost stupid, fish-like or cadaveric stare, very similar to that noticed in cases of extreme alcoholic intoxication.
Página 113 - Uno Dos Tres Cuatro Cinco Seis Siete Ocho Nueve Diez Once Doce Trece Catorce Quince Diez y seis Diez y siete Diez y ocho Diez y nueve Veinte...
Página 39 - He is, however, no stronger than the Central-African negro whose proteid is chiefly of vegetable origin, assisted occasionally by fish and game. Both, however, have a proteid and carbohydrate constituent in their foods, although one derives it from animal, the other from vegetable sources. The Polynesian warrior is more ferocious on a diet of plantains than the Eskimo who eats nothing but fish, meat, and fats. The Japanese are essentially a rice-eating people with a small but potent amount of nitrogenous...
Página 82 - The chief interest centered around the eosinophiles. There is no doubt that the following conclusions may be drawn with safety (conclusions which, by the way, were suggested in the report of the Ponce cases in 1903) : "1. Very severe chronic cases, with poor resisting power and exhausted blood-making organs, have little or no eosinophilia.
Página 96 - ... In other cases disturbances of the vasomotor system doubtless play a part. * * * In these instances there is a sudden or gradual accumulation of blood in the interior with reduction of the amount customarily present In the skin. The consequence of this is an anemic appearance without actual anemia. In general, diseases which have been cited as productive of anemia do not so frequently produce profound anemia as is thought. Referring again to Stengel: Taking blood examinations of 100 consecutive...
Página 3 - AN ACT To provide for the study and suppression of the disease known as "Anemia
Página 29 - PeptoMangan (Gude) in the treatment of uncinariasis, were selected on account of their extreme severity, and thus these cases represent the most crucial test to which any iron preparation can be subjected. The results obtained with this treatment were extremely gratifying. In nearly all of the cases we find such notes as these : "Excellent condition,
Página 68 - CIRCULATORY SYSTEM. — The apex beat is pronounced in light cases; in moderate cases it may be displaced downward and to the left; in marked cases there is a reduction in the force of the apex beat, which is replaced by a wavy, indefinite pulsation in the epigastrium, or an impulsive, tumultuous heaving of the whole pericardium, and in these cases cyanosis, chiefly in the lips, may be noticed: a presystolic thrill is not infrequent in moderate and especially in severe cases (Ashford, King, and Gutierrez)...
Página 101 - A\e have not shared the opinion of many as to the danger of administering thymol under a certain amount of precaution. The experiences of two of us in some hundreds of cases in Ponce demonstrated that its danger was greatly exaggerated and generally resulted from a solution in alcohol or oil. We came to know that thymol was an exceedingly inoffensive drug, as a result of our further acquaintance with it, for we have had no death that we can attribute to it unless it was the indirect cause of death...

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