A System of practical medicine v. 1, 1885, Volume 1Lea Bros. & Company, 1885 |
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... course of the least resistance . It is probable that this course is de- fined by the pre - existing spaces within the tissues of the part , the lymph- spaces . The exudation is more abundant in parts richly provided with blood - vessels ...
... course of the least resistance . It is probable that this course is de- fined by the pre - existing spaces within the tissues of the part , the lymph- spaces . The exudation is more abundant in parts richly provided with blood - vessels ...
Page 53
... course of time , and the parenchymatous cells become degenerated and absorbed . Interstitial inflammations are likely to become chronic in character , and , from the outset , are usually associated with parenchymatous changes . An ...
... course of time , and the parenchymatous cells become degenerated and absorbed . Interstitial inflammations are likely to become chronic in character , and , from the outset , are usually associated with parenchymatous changes . An ...
Page 54
... course of the excretions . If they lie within the cavities of the body not opening ex- ternally , their removal is accomplished through the medium of the circu- lating lymph and blood , by absorption . The liquid portion of the exuda ...
... course of the excretions . If they lie within the cavities of the body not opening ex- ternally , their removal is accomplished through the medium of the circu- lating lymph and blood , by absorption . The liquid portion of the exuda ...
Page 60
... course of a month the thrombus may have been wholly removed , or a period of months may clapse and the thrombus and granulation - tissue still be present side by side . The calcification of a thrombus takes place when the latter becomes ...
... course of a month the thrombus may have been wholly removed , or a period of months may clapse and the thrombus and granulation - tissue still be present side by side . The calcification of a thrombus takes place when the latter becomes ...
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... course under the influence of gravity and the direction and force of the current , which are determined by the ... course of the arterial circulation , and are distributed over the different regions and organs of the body . Usually ...
... course under the influence of gravity and the direction and force of the current , which are determined by the ... course of the arterial circulation , and are distributed over the different regions and organs of the body . Usually ...
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acid acute affected appearance arteries attack become blood blood-vessels body bowels carbolic acid catarrhal cause cavities cells cholera cold color complication condition congestion connection contagious convalescence course danger death degeneration delirium diagnosis diarrhoea diphtheria disease disinfected doses epidemic epithelium eruption erysipelas especially exanthem exudation fatal favorable febrile fibrin frequently gangrene glands hemorrhage hospital important increased infection inflammation inflammatory inoculation instances intestinal kidneys larynx latter lesions less liver lungs lymph lymphatic malarial measles meningitis mild morbid mucous membrane Murchison muscles normal observed occasionally occur organs pain paroxysm patient period pharynx physician poison present produced pulse pyrexia quinia rarely regarded relapsing fever result rötheln scarlatina scarlet fever severe skin small-pox sometimes spleen stage surface swelling symptoms temperature thrombus tion tissue treatment tubercles tumors typhoid fever typhus fever ulceration urine usually vaccination variola vessels virus vomiting week yellow fever
Popular passages
Page 481 - Chinese potters had better command of their materials than in the latter part of the seventeenth and the early part of the eighteenth century.
Page 23 - 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 699 - Clothing, etc.. It is best to burn all articles which have been in contact with persons sick with contagious or infectious diseases. Articles too valuable to be destroyed should be treated as follows : (a.) Cotton, linen, flannels, blankets, etc., should be treated with the boiling-hot zinc solution.
Page 698 - Disinfection is the destruction of the poisons of infectious and contagious diseases. Deodorizers, or substances which destroy smells, are not necessarily disinfectants, and disinfectants do not necessarily have an odor.
Page 176 - The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Page 665 - ... bacteria and develop as such in the system and cause the symptoms. It is, however, possible that they may act upon the exudations of the trachea as the yeast plant acts upon sugar, and cause the production of a septic poison which differs from that of ordinary putrefaction, and bears such relations to the system as to, when absorbed, cause the systemic symptoms of diphtheria.
Page 539 - I have treated this fever in houses crowded from attic to basement with children and others, who have, nevertheless, escaped infection.
Page 699 - Afterward they should be hung in the open air, beaten and shaken. Pillows, beds, stuffed mattresses, upholstered furniture, etc., should be cut open, the contents spread out and thoroughly fumigated. Carpets are best fumigated on the floor, but...
Page 699 - Premises. Cellars, yards, stables, gutters, privies, cesspools, water-closets, drains, sewers, etc., should be frequently and liberally treated with copperas solution. The copperas solution is easily prepared by hanging a basket containing about sixty pounds of copperas in a barrel of water.
Page 286 - Agglutinins begin to appear in the blood serum about the end of the first, or the beginning of the second, week of the disease, with low titers of 1:20 to 1:40.