On Slight Ailments: Their Nature and Treatment |
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Page 25
... sensitive person , or need- lessly vexing such an one when it is necessary to communicate un- pleasant things , and to the successful exercise of glaring imposture and pitiless humbug . One now and then gets , in a sense , an ...
... sensitive person , or need- lessly vexing such an one when it is necessary to communicate un- pleasant things , and to the successful exercise of glaring imposture and pitiless humbug . One now and then gets , in a sense , an ...
Page 60
... sensitive nerve - fibres spread out beneath the epithelium of the mucous membrane of the mouth , brought about by the contact of some pungent or acid material , is sufficient to cause a very free salivary secretion . A small piece of ...
... sensitive nerve - fibres spread out beneath the epithelium of the mucous membrane of the mouth , brought about by the contact of some pungent or acid material , is sufficient to cause a very free salivary secretion . A small piece of ...
Page 68
... sensitive surface generally is only temporary , and consequent upon the changes which have occurred just beneath the epithelium , where extremely delicate afferent nerve fibrils are distributed in immense numbers , but the condition may ...
... sensitive surface generally is only temporary , and consequent upon the changes which have occurred just beneath the epithelium , where extremely delicate afferent nerve fibrils are distributed in immense numbers , but the condition may ...
Page 85
... sensitive nerve - fibres would transmit impressions of a painful character . The state of the mucous membrane I have just referred to may soon give place to the normal condition , or it may persist and lead on to a state of things which ...
... sensitive nerve - fibres would transmit impressions of a painful character . The state of the mucous membrane I have just referred to may soon give place to the normal condition , or it may persist and lead on to a state of things which ...
Page 86
... sensitive tissues in connection with the alimentary canal . Fortunate are all who pass through life without discovering that sensitive nerves are distributed to the intestines . We know nothing of the changes taking place in the stomach ...
... sensitive tissues in connection with the alimentary canal . Fortunate are all who pass through life without discovering that sensitive nerves are distributed to the intestines . We know nothing of the changes taking place in the stomach ...
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accumulation acid action affected afferent nerves alimentary canal altered attack become bilious bioplasm blood body Calomel capillary vessels cause cells changes chilblains circulation Cloth cold Colocynth color condition conjunctiva consequence considerable constipation cure derangement diarrhoea diet digestion discomfort disease distended distributed disturbance drachm Edition epithelium excited feel fluid frequently gastric juice give glands grains hydrochloric acid Illustrations important increased inflammation intestinal canal irritating jaundice large bowel little arteries liver living matter malady Medical medicine minute morbid mouth mucous membrane mucus muscular fibres nausea nerve-centre nerve-fibres nerves nervous occur ordinary organs ounce pain papillæ particles pass pathological patient pepsine perhaps persons phenomena pill Podophyllin Potash powder practitioner prescribed probably purgative quantity Quinine relieved remedies result rheumatism secretion sensitive serious sick headache skin slight ailments small doses sometimes soon sore stomach substances suffer surface symptoms take place temperature tion tissues tongue treatment vertigo
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