Modern domestic medicineSimpkin and Marshall, 1827 - 614 páginas |
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acid acute administered affected alkaline ammonia animal food aperient appears applied bark bladder bleeding blisters blood blood-letting body bowels calomel carbonate cause chest chronic clyster cold colocynth complaint compound costiveness cough cure debility decoction diet digestive organs discharge disease disorder dose drachm draught drops dropsy efficacious emetic employed eruption exercise extract fever flatulency fluid frequently gentian given Glauber's salt gout gravel guaiacum gum arabic habit half a drachm henbane indigestion inflammation inflammatory infusion ipecacuan irritation James's powder laudanum lotion means medicine mercury mild mixed mucilage muriatic muriatic acid night occasionally ointment opium ounces pain patient Peruvian bark pill pint proper pulse purgative quantity recommended relief remedy resorted rheumatism rhubarb salt skin sometimes stimulant stomach sulphate symptoms table-spoonfuls Take taken tea-spoonful three grains three or four thrice a day tincture tion tonic treatment TREATMENT.-The tumour twice or thrice typhus ulcer urine vegetable vomiting warm bath wine
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Página 164 - They who are afflicted with it, are seized while they are walking, (more especially if it be up hill, and soon after eating) with a painful and most disagreeable sensation in the breast, which seems as if it would extinguish life, if it were to increase or to continue; but the moment they stand still, all this uneasiness vanishes.
Página 235 - ... the breast is spasmodically beaten, the muscles of the chest are agitated in every way, and the patient bursts into violent paroxysms of laughter, sobbing, or screaming, utters incoherent expressions, and is in a state of temporary delirium. On the cessation of the spasms...
Página 275 - ... much impaired, and the speech is indistinct and incoherent. If the disease affects the extremities, and has been of long duration, it not only produces a loss of motion and sensibility, but likewise a considerable flaccidity and wasting away in the muscles of the parts affected.
Página 233 - ... a hoop. The coughing continues till either a quantity of mucus is thrown up from the lungs, or the contents of the stomach are evacuated by vomiting. On the first coming...
Página 186 - ... early in the morning, leaving the patient with a greater feeling of feebleness and relaxation. This assemblage of symptoms may be considered as constituting the first stage. In what may be regarded as the second stage, in which the disease is evidently established and generally hopeless, the cough increases in frequency, and, from being dry, is accompanied with a purulent mucus, varying from a watery whey-like matter occasionally tinged with blood, to an expectoration of genuine pus, which may...
Página 92 - Fevers," says, with equal truth and precision, that " in the earlier stages of exercise, before profuse perspiration has dissipated the heat, and fatigue debilitated the living power, nothing is more safe, according to my experience, than the cold bath. This is so true, that I have, for some years, constantly directed infirm persons to use such a degree of exercise, before immersion, as may produce some increased action of the vascular system, with some increase of heat, and thus...
Página 167 - Compound Extract of Smart-weed should be given in doses proportionate to the age of the patient, and the severity of the case. Being composed of the extract of smart-weed, or water pepper, Jamaica ginger...
Página 289 - Porrigo appears in distinct and even distant patches, of an irregularly circular figure, upon the scalp, forehead, and neck.* It commences with clusters of small light yellow pustules, which soon break and form thin scabs...
Página 233 - the use of this medicine as the most certain means of curing the disease in its second stage ; and when there has been little fever present, and a sufficient quantity of the bark has been given, it has seldom failed of soon putting an end to the disease.
Página 134 - A second belt is to encircle the dislocated thigh-bone, immediately above the knee, and with this, extension is to be made in the direction of the line made by the limb, when it is brought across the other thigh a little above the knee. As soon as the head of the bone has been brought on a level with the cavity into which it is to be returned, by the assistants, who are making the extension, the surgeon is to force it into the cavity by pressing on the large protuberance of the...