Practical therapeuticsLindsay & Blakiston, 1866 - 815 pages |
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Acetate Acid action acute administered advantage advises Ammonia anthelmintic applied astringent beneficial benefit blisters blood bowels Calomel Camphor Carbonate Chloroform Chronic Cinchona combined Copland cure decoction diaphoretic Diarrhea diluted disease diuretic doses of gr Dyspepsia effects efficacy emmenagogue employed enema external favorably Fevers grains gutt Hemorrhage increased inflammation inflammatory infusion injection Iodide Iodine Ipecacuanha Iron irritation Journ Lancet large doses Linn Liver Lond medicine Mercury mucilage mucous nervous Nitrate observes occasionally ointment Opii Opium pain patient Pharm Phthisis pill poison Potash powerful Pract Prep produce Prop proves Pulv purgative quantity Quinine Rectified Spirit relief remedy Rheumatism salt Scrofulous sedative skin small doses Soda solution speaks highly stimulant stomach Strychnia Sulphate Sulphuric symptoms Syphilis Syst Tartar Emetic Therapeutic thrice daily Tincture tion tonic treatment Ulcers urine uterus vomiting
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Page 209 - The strongest doses of chloroform vapour, when admitted freely into the lungs, destroy animal life by arresting the action of the heart ; whilst by moderate doses the heart's action is much weakened for some time before death ensues, respiration generally, but not invariably, ceasing before the action of the heart...
Page 209 - ... when admitted freely into the lungs, destroy animal life by arresting the action of the heart ; whilst by moderate doses the heart's action is much weakened for some time before death ensues, respiration generally, but not invariably, ceasing before the action of the heart, death being due both to the failure of the heart's action and to that of the respiratory function.
Page 174 - The state is at once recognized by the strange balancing gait of the patient, a constant rubbing of the hands, perpetual giggling, and a propensity to caress and chafe the feet of all bystanders of whatever rank. The eye wears an expression of cunning and merriment which can scarcely be mistaken, there is no increased heat or frequency of circulation, and the skin and general functions are in a natural state.
Page 224 - Without entering minutely into the medicinal action of caffeine, (theine,) it will surely appear a most striking fact, even if we were to deny its influence on the process of secretion, that this substance, with the addition of oxygen and the elements of water, can yield taurine, the nitrogenized compound peculiar to bile : 1 at.
Page 384 - In all constitutions, robust as well as delicate, under all circumstances, the result is the same. In the very worst cases, when the strength of the patient is almost exhausted, after the whole range of remedies has been tried in vain, the disease running its course swiftly and surely to a fatal issue...
Page 232 - It is sure to remain in intimate contact with the skin until union is complete — and being quite impervious to water, and presenting a polished surface, it allows the surrounding parts to be washed, without regard to the wound or dressing.
Page 233 - For straight incisions of whatever length, provided the edges can be brought together without great difficulty, it is better to apply the solution in immediate contact with the skin — as follows : The bleeding should be arrested, and the skin thoroughly dried. If the lips of the wound are themselves in contact, the surgeon has only to apply a coating of the solution lengthwise, over the approximated edges, by means of a camel's hair pencil, leaving it untouched after the brush has once passed over...
Page 639 - ... may be given in doses of one or two drachms, to be repeated according to its effects. The best vehicle is cold water ; some will bear and derive advantage from two or three doses of this medicine in the day, experiencing from its use a diminution of headache, and removal of flatulence, together with a moderate action of the bowels and kidneys.
Page 263 - Digitalis seldom succeeds in men of great natural strength, of tense fibre, of warm skin, of florid complexion, or in those with a tight and cordy pulse. If the belly in ascites be tense, hard, and circumscribed, or the limbs in anasarca solid and resisting, we have but little hope. On the contrary, if the pulse be feeble and intermitting, the countenance pale, the lips livid, the skin cold, the swollen belly soft and fluctuating, or the anasarcous limbs readily pitting upon pressure of the finger,...
Page 445 - When opium is given for the relief of a pain, particularly of a periodical character, a third part of the dose which was required to relieve the paroxysm is required to prevent its recurrence. In fact, a moderate dose given in the interval will sometimes prevent the accession of the fit, when no quantity, however great, can control it after it has once set in.