A System of practical medicine v. 1, 1885, Volume 1Lea Bros. & Company, 1885 |
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Page 38
... increased destruction of tissue , a quickened and modified pulse , accelerated breathing , increased thirst , diminished appetite , and diminished quantity and altered quality of the secretions . The sensorial disturbances include ...
... increased destruction of tissue , a quickened and modified pulse , accelerated breathing , increased thirst , diminished appetite , and diminished quantity and altered quality of the secretions . The sensorial disturbances include ...
Page 39
... increased production of heat as determined by Wood , if admitted , may be regarded as the result of a modified circulation . The preservation of a normal range of temperature in general is to be recognized as the result of variations in ...
... increased production of heat as determined by Wood , if admitted , may be regarded as the result of a modified circulation . The preservation of a normal range of temperature in general is to be recognized as the result of variations in ...
Page 40
... increased production of heat in fever is generally admitted , although it alone is not to be regarded as the essential feature in the elevated range of the temperature . The fasting man or animal under ordinary circum- stances is not ...
... increased production of heat in fever is generally admitted , although it alone is not to be regarded as the essential feature in the elevated range of the temperature . The fasting man or animal under ordinary circum- stances is not ...
Page 41
... increased quantity of blood , and lymph , and to the exudation . These constituents of the swelling are not of equal importance . Although the quantity of blood in the part is increased , no considerable swelling is produced , pro ...
... increased quantity of blood , and lymph , and to the exudation . These constituents of the swelling are not of equal importance . Although the quantity of blood in the part is increased , no considerable swelling is produced , pro ...
Page 45
... increased porosity which is so essen- tial a factor in inflammation . The discovery of the immediate cause of the various infective diseases , as measles , scarlatina , variola , cholera , dysentery , mumps , whooping cough , cerebro ...
... increased porosity which is so essen- tial a factor in inflammation . The discovery of the immediate cause of the various infective diseases , as measles , scarlatina , variola , cholera , dysentery , mumps , whooping cough , cerebro ...
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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.