Bronchitis and kindred diseasesRedfield, 1854 - 382 páginas |
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... fact that so many of that class of persons have been troubled with it of late years . It is an affection of the voice - making organs , which are at the top or beginning of the wind - pipe , answering to that moveable protuberance in ...
... fact that so many of that class of persons have been troubled with it of late years . It is an affection of the voice - making organs , which are at the top or beginning of the wind - pipe , answering to that moveable protuberance in ...
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... fact , the dread of it has been an incubus on me , paralyzing my energies and weighing down my spirits . In the summers , too , I have been subject to attacks of bilious fever and bilious colic . A year ago , I attended court soon after ...
... fact , the dread of it has been an incubus on me , paralyzing my energies and weighing down my spirits . In the summers , too , I have been subject to attacks of bilious fever and bilious colic . A year ago , I attended court soon after ...
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... fondly hoped - oh ! how ardently ! —that he might be restored . If a knowledge of the fact would give any additional interest to the case , I will only say , he is one 2 A MERCHANT'S CASE . 25 In walking home, at sundown, half a mile ...
... fondly hoped - oh ! how ardently ! —that he might be restored . If a knowledge of the fact would give any additional interest to the case , I will only say , he is one 2 A MERCHANT'S CASE . 25 In walking home, at sundown, half a mile ...
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... fact , and act upon it rationally and practically , and could prevent its being turned into ridicule by ig- norant and unprincipled peripatetic lecturers , not one need die of consumption , where thousands now do . The Author dislikes ...
... fact , and act upon it rationally and practically , and could prevent its being turned into ridicule by ig- norant and unprincipled peripatetic lecturers , not one need die of consumption , where thousands now do . The Author dislikes ...
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... fact will excite in all who have little chil- dren , he here states , that Croup , of which so many die in spring and fall , is a disease of the windpipe itself ; as soon as the small blood vessels on its inner walls be- come clogged up ...
... fact will excite in all who have little chil- dren , he here states , that Croup , of which so many die in spring and fall , is a disease of the windpipe itself ; as soon as the small blood vessels on its inner walls be- come clogged up ...
Términos y frases comunes
abscess affection ailments amount appetite applied asthma attack auscultation become begins body boiled bowels breast breathing Bronchitis cause chilliness cholera Chronic Laryngitis clergyman cold common cold constitution consumptive disease consumptive persons costive cough curable cure damp death decay died digestion dyspepsia effort expectoration fact fatal feeling fever flesh frequent fresh gentleman give given half hoarseness hope inches invalid less live lung measurement means medicine ment minutes months morning mucus nature never night sweats observed opinion pain patient perfectly phlegm phthisis physician pint practice pulse reader remedy restored scrofulous sick sleep slight sometimes soon sore spirometry spitting of blood stages stomach strength suffering sumption swallowing symp symptoms thing throat Throat-Ail tickling tion tonsils treatment tubercles tubercular uvula voice voice organs walk warm weak weeks windpipe yellow matter
Pasajes populares
Página 89 - Sir, I wish you to understand the true principles of the government; I wish them carried out; I ask nothing more...
Página 88 - I pray you Master Lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself.
Página 228 - ... doses of emetic tartar, amounting in all to five or six grains, with no other effect than a copious discharge from the bowels. The powers of life seemed now manifestly yielding to the force of the disorder. Blisters were applied to the extremities, together with a cataplasm of bran and vinegar to the throat. Speaking, which was painful from the beginning, now became almost impracticable; respiration grew more and more contracted and imperfect, till half after eleven o'clock on Saturday night,...
Página 227 - Discovering the case to be highly alarming, and foreseeing the fatal tendency of the disease, two consulting physicians were immediately sent for, who arrived, one at half after three, the other at four o'clock in the afternoon.
Página 341 - A physician is a man who pours drugs, of which he knows little, into a body of which he knows less.
Página 88 - I feel as if I were to be myself again." — Sir Walter Scott. " I resign my soul to God, and my daughter to my country.
Página 227 - The disease commenced with a violent ague, accompanied with some pain in the upper and fore part of the throat, a sense of stricture in the same part, a cough, and a difficult rather than a painful deglutition, which were soon succeeded by fever, and a quick and laborious respiration.
Página 227 - ... an injection was administered, which operated on the lower intestines ; but all without any perceptible advantage, the respiration becoming still more difficult and distressing. Upon the arrival of the first of the consulting physicians, it was agreed, as there...
Página 228 - Vapours of vinegar and water were frequently inhaled; ten grains of calomel were given, succeeded by repeated doses of emetic tartar, amounting in all to five or six grains, with no other effect than a copious discharge from the bowels. The powers of life seemed now manifestly yielding to the force of the disorder. Blisters were applied to the extremities, together with a cataplasm of bran and vinegar to the throat. Speaking, which was painful from the beginning, now became almost impracticable;...
Página 77 - The fifth year we were silent. The sixth he was taken away ; I never knew where — to execution or to liberty ; but I was glad when he was gone : even solitude was better than the dim vision of that pale, vacant face. After that I was alone. Only one event broke in upon my nine years