A Clinical Treatise on the Endemic Fevers of the West Indies: Intended as a Guide for the Young Practitioner in Those CountriesJ. Churchill, 1837 - 309 páginas |
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... greater discussions respecting their nature , nor to more oppo- site modes of practice , than those which constitute what is called the " Endemic " of the West Indies . Doubts and dif- ficulties beset the path of the young practitioner ...
... greater discussions respecting their nature , nor to more oppo- site modes of practice , than those which constitute what is called the " Endemic " of the West Indies . Doubts and dif- ficulties beset the path of the young practitioner ...
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... - ponding valleys , through each of which runs a river or rivulet , having its origin in one of the loftier hills of the central chain . The greater number of these valleys on the leeward side 4 TOPOGRAPHY OF ST . LUCIA . MALARIA.
... - ponding valleys , through each of which runs a river or rivulet , having its origin in one of the loftier hills of the central chain . The greater number of these valleys on the leeward side 4 TOPOGRAPHY OF ST . LUCIA . MALARIA.
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... greater number of these valleys on the leeward side are in a state of cultivation more or less complete ; others are so narrow , and their inclosing hills so steep and high , as to lose the name of valley in that of ravine . To windward ...
... greater number of these valleys on the leeward side are in a state of cultivation more or less complete ; others are so narrow , and their inclosing hills so steep and high , as to lose the name of valley in that of ravine . To windward ...
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... and vegetable matter . Marsh or Swamp . Both these terms are used to signify a tract of country of greater or less extent , the surface of which is habitually covered with stagnant water , and the soil underneath is formed Marsh or Swamp.
... and vegetable matter . Marsh or Swamp . Both these terms are used to signify a tract of country of greater or less extent , the surface of which is habitually covered with stagnant water , and the soil underneath is formed Marsh or Swamp.
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... greater than that of any dunghill , and communicates a tingling , unpleasant feeling to the hand . The vapour which arises from it is very evident , being opaque , like smoke , and though it fills the canal , ascends only to the height ...
... greater than that of any dunghill , and communicates a tingling , unpleasant feeling to the hand . The vapour which arises from it is very evident , being opaque , like smoke , and though it fills the canal , ascends only to the height ...
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Términos y frases comunes
abdomen ænema appearance apyrectic arachnoid bilious black vomit bleeding body bowels calomel cause cavities cerebellum chest coagulated cold stage colour commencement complains conjunctivæ continued convulsions countenance dark death delirium disease distended dose dura mater ecchymosis effects emetic emollient engorged epigastrium evacuations existence extremities febrile fever fomentations gall-bladder gastric gastritis gastro-enteritis glysters greater number headache healthy heat hirudines hot and dry hot stage inflammation injected intense intermission intermittent intestine irritation læsion leeches Lucia lungs malaria matter moist morning mucous coat mucous membrane mucus nausea nervous night noon o'clock P. M. observed occasionally organ pain pale paroxysm patient perspiration pia mater pressing the epigastrium produced purgative quinæ quinine remittent restlessness Sectio Cadaveris serum severe rigors skin hot slight softened stomach stool stupor subsided supination surface symptoms temperament thickened thirst tion tongue urine vascular vessels viscera vomiting warm West Indies yellow bile yellow fever yellow suffusion
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Página 18 - ... so easily. In general, if he be guilty of any imprudences, he feels restless at night, and can only sleep during the cool of the morning. He feels out of sorts ; has pains in the back and extremities, as if from fatigue ; be complains of headache, sickness and nausea ; and if these symptoms are not attended to immediately, suffers what is vulgarly called an attack of seasoning fever.
Página 17 - A European, or a native after a long residence in a temperate and healthy climate, arriving in St. Lucia, complains of a feeling of weight in the atmosphere — a something which resists the wish for exertion or exercise. Both his mind and body are oppressed ; his intellect is clouded ; his spirits are low and desponding, and all pre-existing love of enterprise vanishes. If his residence be protracted, he has slight febrile movements, which come on regularly or irregularly, not sufficiently severe...
Página i - Quid verum atque decens euro et rogo, et omnis in hoc sum ; Condo et compono quae mox depromere possim.
Página 19 - The surface of the body was cold, the countenance expressed great anxiety, the pulse was small and scarcely perceptible, the patient was insensible to surrounding objects, and in a state of coma, only interrupted by severe convulsions.
Página 19 - One of them fell down apparently in a state of asphyxia, and the other was so affected as to be incapable of assisting him. The man most affected, after lying...
Página 6 - I think it may even be fairly presumed that water, for as long as it can preserve the figure of its particles above the surface, is innoxious, and that it must first be absorbed into the soil, and disappear to the eye, before it can produce any mischievous effects. The most ignorant peasant of Lincolnshire knows, that there is nothing to be apprehended from the ditches of his farm till they have been dried up by the summer heat; and though the inhabitant of Holland may point to the unexhausted foul...
Página 60 - The author's object was to find some "method of avoiding the disgust which the bitterness of quinine always excites ; and after repeated trials, he says he found it best to dissolve eight grains of the sulphate in half an ounce of rectified spirit and rub it, in two doses with an interval of a quarter of an hour between them, along the spine. In intermittent fever this should be done at the beginning of the cold fit; and it very often prevented even a single recurrence of it.
Página 19 - ... by another paroxysm, equal in violence to the last, except that the cold stage was scarcely perceptible.
Página 20 - The other man never suffered further inconvenience ; he said that the vapour had no perceptible smell ; that it was warm and moist, like steam, stopped the respiration for a moment, and produced a sense of faintness and trembling of the whole body.
Página 17 - ... exercise. Both his mind and body are oppressed ; his intellect is clouded ; his spirits are low and desponding, and all pre-existing love of enterprise vanishes. If his residence be protracted, he has slight febrile movements, which come on regularly or irregularly, not sufficiently severe to prevent his pursuing his usual avocations, but which, nevertheless, are sufficient to induce him- to throw himself upon a sofa and require a powerful effort of resolution to combat. In this manner his body...