The Philadelphia University Journal of Medicine and Surgery, Volume 13

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W. Paine, 1869

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Page 328 - That it shall be unlawful for any person within the limits of said state, who has not attended two full courses of instruction and graduated at some school of medicine, either of the United States or some foreign country, or who cannot produce a certificate of qualification from some state or county medical society, and is not a person of good moral character...
Page 163 - Besides, it is apt to produce disturbance of the gastric functions of an unpleasant character. Acting upon the idea that the natural alkaloidal principles of bark, in their simple, unchanged condition, separated from the gross, woody, and other matters, would better subserve all therapeutical ends than the barks themselves, or any one of the alkaloids separately employed, cincho-quinine has been prepared.
Page 164 - It is wholly composed of the bark alkaloids; 1st, quinia; 2d, cinchonia; 3d, quinidia; 4th, cinchonidia; 5th, other alkaloidal principles present in barks, which have not been distinctly isolated, and the precise nature of which are not well understood. In the beautiful white amorphous scales...
Page 328 - ... nor more than one hundred dollars for such offense, and upon conviction for a second violation of this act, shall, in addition to the above fine, be imprisoned in the county jail of the county in which said offense...
Page 163 - It is to be regretted that we cannot remove the different families of kinates from the bark in their natural state of saline combination. It seems reasonable to suppose their action upon the system would be more salutary than in other forms. It is easy to isolate the kinic acid, and having the alkaloids, the kinates of quinia...
Page 330 - Death by syncope or sudden stoppage of the action of the heart is, doubtless, far less under control, and has apparently formed the principal cause of the fatal issues in almost all the cases in which patients have perished...
Page 189 - It has the great advantage of being nearly tasteless. The bitter is very slight, and not unpleasant to the most sensitive, delicate woman or child. 3d.
Page 384 - It exerts the full therapeutic influence of sulphate of quinine, in the same doses, without oppressing the stomach or creating nausea. It does not produce cerebral distress, as sulphate of quinine is apt to do, and in the large number of cases in which it has been tried, it has been found to produce much less constitutional disturbance.
Page 384 - Professor of Pathology and Therapeutics ; Director of the Medical Clinic of the University of Tubingen, A TEXT-BOOK OF PRACTICAL MEDICINE, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY.
Page 88 - The pressure of the blood on the brain keeps it in a stimulated or wakeful state, and the pulsations in the head are often painful. Let such rise and chafe the body and extremities with a brush or towel, or rub smartly with the hands, to promote circulation and withdraw the excessive amount of blood from the brain, and they will fall asleep in a few moments.

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