Pediatrics, Volume 3Pediatric Publishing Company, 1897 - Children |
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Page x - ... For four weeks I had been suffering with neuralgia of a very severe type and attended with considerable febrile movement. I tried the various compounds and other preparations, lauded as 'just as good,' but with no real advantage, and with no little heart disturbance. "On Saturday, I went to Arcola, and while there was taken very sick with one of my neuralgic attacks. I sent to the drug store for some genuine antikamnia.
Page x - I took it in eight to ten grain doses at intervals of two hours. The effect was magical, the first dose relieved the severity of the pain, while the second quieted it entirely, and I went to bed, sleeping all night with one awakening of a few moments only, a thing I had not done in four weeks. This experience on my own person has thoroughly convinced me of the superiority of the genuine antikamnia.
Page ix - THE UNABRIDGED, The purpose of which has been not display nor the provision of material for boastful and showy advertisement, but the due, judicious, scholarly, thorough perfecting of a work which in all the stages of Its growth hits obtained in an equal degree the favor and confidence of scholars and of the general public.
Page x - I never realized the vast difference between genuine antikamnia and the various substitutes that are being palmed off, until within the past few days; and the realization was all the more pronounced because I, myself, was the patient. For four weeks I had been suffering with neuralgia of a very severe type and attended with considerable febrile movement. I tried the various compounds and other preparations, lauded as 'just as good' but with no real advantage and with no little heart disturbance.
Page 286 - Beginning with slight symptoms after several days' incubation, the process gradually increases, at first in intensity, then in extent, and reaches its acme in both respects at the end of the second or beginning of the third week.
Page 154 - ... and nicotine, a complex substance, which, when analyzed, is found to contain a fluid alkaloid — nicotine proper, a volatile substance containing ammonia, and a bitter resinous extract. Numerous other substances are often produced, but those mentioned are always present, and to them can be traced the evil effects of smoking. These are more readily taken into the lungs when smoking cigars and cigarettes than when a pipe is used ; as the stem of a pipe, if porous and clean, absorbs the nicotine.
Page 158 - ... injunction to open the mouth wide and press down the tongue. In this way can be secured, after one or two attempts, a perfect view of the tonsils, and in many instances even of the epiglottis and the adjacent folds. The reason why this is preferred is based on. first, the fact that a child, or even an adult, does not fear any injury from his own finger; second, his own effort will not provoke emesis or straining, as a trial will convince the reader; third, there is no danger of contamination...
Page 157 - It is well known that many children have a dread of the doctor's visit — especially should the visit be made because of throat disease. The fears are increased if a spoon or tongue depressor is thrust down into the throat without ceremony. All of this may be overcome by a method used by...
Page 47 - If a great deal of pain is present in the spine the patient must be lifted out of bed by means of the bedcloth on which he lies, and, with it, lowered into the bath. The head should not be touched during transportation. After the bath, the patient is wrapped into a woolen blanket, and has a light cover thrown over him; no drying or rubbing of the body is to be attempted. In this envelopment the patient is to remain an hour, when he may be removed. The time of day for the bath is unimportant, but...