Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences, Volume 1Charles Eucharist de Medicis Sajous F.A. Davis, 1889 - Medicine |
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... phthisis the anatomical signs of an infection of the blood by the parasite are wanting in more than half the cases . When this infection is observed , it proceeds with slight and discontinuous steps , altogether different from the ...
... phthisis the anatomical signs of an infection of the blood by the parasite are wanting in more than half the cases . When this infection is observed , it proceeds with slight and discontinuous steps , altogether different from the ...
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... phthisis is by no means so contagious as small - pox , else the human race would have become extinct . Certain conditions are requisite to infection . The disease is usually contracted through the organs of respiration . Dried sputa ...
... phthisis is by no means so contagious as small - pox , else the human race would have become extinct . Certain conditions are requisite to infection . The disease is usually contracted through the organs of respiration . Dried sputa ...
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... phthisis amounts to 15 per cent . of the whole mortality in the world at large , in prisons it constitutes 40 or 50 per cent .; that is , one - half of the whole mor- tality . Different prisons show different results - thus , Austria ...
... phthisis amounts to 15 per cent . of the whole mortality in the world at large , in prisons it constitutes 40 or 50 per cent .; that is , one - half of the whole mor- tality . Different prisons show different results - thus , Austria ...
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... phthisis , were found to be almost all diseased . The author learned that the sick man was in the habit of walking in the garden , and it had been noticed that the chickens had eagerly seized upon the matter expectorated by him . The ...
... phthisis , were found to be almost all diseased . The author learned that the sick man was in the habit of walking in the garden , and it had been noticed that the chickens had eagerly seized upon the matter expectorated by him . The ...
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... Phthisis being of long duration , each individual case can infect all the susceptible persons who come in contact with it for a number of years , and in this way the epidemic becomes prolonged . The duration of epidemics , as they are ...
... Phthisis being of long duration , each individual case can infect all the susceptible persons who come in contact with it for a number of years , and in this way the epidemic becomes prolonged . The duration of epidemics , as they are ...
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Page xiv - Revised and Edited by Louis Starr, MD, Clinical Professor of Diseases of Children in the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; Physician to the Children's Hospital, Philadelphia.
Page xiv - Essentials of Diseases of Children. By WILLIAM M. POWELL, MD, Attending Physician to the Mercer House for Invalid Women at Atlantic City, NJ ; late Physician to the Clinic for the Diseases of Children in the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Crown octavo, 222 pages. Cloth, $1.00; interleaved for notes, $1.25. [See Saunders...
Page 19 - ... from a few minutes to several hours, according to the condition of the patient, and the nature of the offending cause ; Junod observing, that the most prolonged derivations often proved the most effective.
Page 43 - the outside of a horse is the best thing for the inside of a man.
Page 9 - He was able to demonstrate the presence of tubercle bacilli in the milk or in the sediment, and with this milk or sediment he was able to produce tuberculosis both by inoculation and ingestion.
Page 72 - ... by reacting on infectious matter pass from a state of tension to a state of rest under new relations. The agency through which these changes almost universally become operative is the vapor of water. " When sulphur is burned in a...
Page 61 - This disease has no latent stages, and second and third attacks are due to reinfection. 7. One attack, as a rule, gives at least temporary immunity. 8. After the limited period of immunity has expired, the previous attack may act as a predisposing cause to other attacks, if it has left the mucous membrane of the throat in an irritated and inflamed condition. This is more likely to occur in scrofulous subjects. 9. Complications may occur from the entrance into the body of septic germs.
Page 72 - ... sulphur, and a heavy gas is the result, which tends to settle at the bottom of the chamber and to run out through the lower cracks. Any moisture present is at once seized by this rather inactive anhydride, first forming sulphurous acid, and then, by oxidation from the air, sulphuric acid.
Page 31 - As a remedial agent in typhoid and remittent fevers, it is unsurpassed, aborting them at the outset under favorable conditions, and greatly mitigating their severity and danger under circumstances less favorable.
Page 37 - The following method is a certain means of determining by which of these diseases the eruption is produced. If, upon stretching a portion of the skin the papule becomes im]>alpable to the touch, the eruption is caused by measles; if, on the contrary, the papule is still felt when the skin is drawn out the eruption is the result of small-pox. l...