A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of Practitioners and Students of Medicine

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Lea, 1866 - 867 páginas

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Página 664 - ... the two most ready solutions appear to be, either that the altered quality of the blood affords irregular and unwonted stimulus to the organ immediately; or, that it so affects the minute and capillary circulation, as to render greater action necessary to force the blood through the distant sub-divisions of the vascular system.
Página 388 - ... (Gypsum). I detected it in the form of an opaque white substance without lustre, and, to the naked eye, devoid of crystalline structure, in cakes and somewhat rounded masses varying in size from that of a small pea to that of a...
Página 84 - However produced, the occurrence of pnrnlent collections in different situations is characteristic of pytemia, as determined by clinical observation, so that these collections constitute evidence of the existence of a purulent infection of the blood. Frequently collections are found in different organs, and numerous collections in the same organ. They vary in size from that of a pin's head to a walnut. They may be circumscribed, constituting, in fact, abscesses, or the pus may be infiltrated. The...
Página 249 - I would rank exercise and out-door life far above any known remedies for the cure of the disease. There are grounds for believing that the advantage of a change of climate mainly consists in its being subsidiary to a change of habits as regards exercise and out-door life. So deeply impressed am I with the correctness of this view of the regiminal management of the disease, that I cannot express myself too emphatically in trying to enforce its practical importance.
Página 448 - Ixxxj., or opium four hundred and seventy-two (472) grains. On the third day, she took 236 grains. On the fourth, 120 grains. On the fifth, 54 grains. On the sixth, 22 grains. On the seventh day, 8 grains. After which, the treatment was wholly suspended. This woman was not addicted to drinking, and after her recovery, she assured me repeatedly that she did not know opium by sight, and had never taken it, or any of its preparations, unless it had been prescribed by a physician. This is, perhaps,
Página 407 - ... pint of water till free dejections are obtained. Purgatives are useful in removing from the system the lead contained in the contents of the bowels. A drachm of dilute sulphuric acid in a quart of sweetened water should be taken in the 24 hours. It is advised that this kind of lemonade might be used at meals by lead workers, as at this period much lead is thought to be introduced into the system. It would form an insoluble compound with any lead entering the stomach. Its efforts for good are...
Página 338 - It was only the strong adhesion of the diseased parts of that organ to the concave surface of the lobe of the liver, which, being over the ulcer, had prolonged the patient's life by preventing the escape of the contents of the stomach into the cavity of the abdomen.
Página 650 - The urine furnishes important symptoms. The quantity is usually scanty. It may be quite small, and suppression sometimes occurs. The specific gravity rarely, if ever, exceeds that of health, viz., about 1.020, and, not infrequently, it is more or less diminished. The diminution denotes deficiency of urea. Tested with heat or nitric acid, the urine is found to contain albumen usually in considerable, and frequently in great, abundance.
Página 325 - A remarkable change has taken place within the last quarter of a century in the opinions of physicians respecting the occurrence of acute inflammation of the stomach.
Página 620 - A young female becomes anaemic, and after exhibiting various symptoms of feeble general circulation, with headache, drowsiness, and impaired sensorial functions, suddenly becomes worse ; passes into a state of stupor, with dilated pupils, sometimes varied by slight manifestations of delirium, throbbing of the carotids, and partial heat of the head, and dies comatose.

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