The Medical Summary: A Monthly Journal of Practical Medicine, New Preparations, Volume 30

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R. H. Andrews
1908 - Medicine
Edited by R.H. Andrews.

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Page 88 - The woman about to become a mother, or with her new-born infant upon her bosom, should be the object of trembling care and sympathy wherever she bears her tender burden, or stretches her aching limbs.
Page 88 - The very outcast of the streets has pity upon her sister in degradation when the seal of promised maternity is impressed upon her. The remorseless vengeance of the law, brought down upon its victim by a machinery as sure as destiny, is arrested in its fall at a word which reveals her transient claim for mercy. The solemn prayer of the liturgy singles out her sorrows from the multiplied trials of life, to plead for her in the hour of peril. God forbid that any member of the profession to which she...
Page 67 - Professor of Surgery in the St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons, one of the oldest and strongest medical schools of the West.
Page 195 - Comprising a description of a method of treatment destined to occupy an important place as a cure for rupture, owing to the extreme simplicity of the technic and its advantages from an economic standpoint.
Page 267 - BY AIME PAUL HEINECK, MD, Professor of Surgery, Reliance Medical College; Adjunct Professor of Surgery, University of Illinois; Surgeon to the Cook County Hospital Our knowledge concerning this acute infectious disease is incomplete.
Page 152 - The Pneumococci stern and haughty Declared the Gonococci naughty, And would not care to stay at all, If they were present at the ball. The ball began, the mirth ran high, With not one thought of danger nigh.
Page 271 - ... that intraspinal injections of magnesium sulphate in doses •which do not affect the respiratory center or other vital functions, are capable of abolishing completely all clonic convulsions and tonic contractions in cases of tetanus occurring in the human subject. The relaxing effects of the injections may last twenty-four hours or longer. In the case •which I report, none of the vital functions •were influenced by the intraspinal injections of magnesium sulphate. In some parts of the body,...
Page 89 - To keep a chill off, give ten drops every hour until six or eight doses are taken, beginning so the. last dose will come one or two hours before the chill is due. At other times give a dose every three or four hours.
Page 36 - ... bright light . Don't permit a child to assume a sitting posture at an early age. Spinal curvature may thus be produced, especially if the infant be rachitic. Don't anticipate the natural efforts at locomotion, otherwise unsightly curving of the limbs may result, necessitating later operative procedures. Don't designate the symptoms of rheumatism by the popular term "growing pains.
Page 117 - Despondency or lack of faith will often sink the stoutest constitution almost to death's door; faith will enable a bread pill or a spoonful of clear water to do almost miracles of healing, when the best medicines have been given over in despair. The basis of the entire profession of medicine is faith in the doctor and his drugs and his methods.

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