Therapeutics

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J.B. Lippincott, 1894 - 1007 pages
 

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Page 762 - A neutral principle obtained from elaterium, a substance deposited by the juice of the fruit of Ecballium Elaterium.
Page 591 - They are covered by an external brown membrane, and an inner reddish-yellow one, and are an inch and a half to two and a half inches in length, with a longitudinal groove. Internally, they are white, fleshy, and solid, and contain an acrid, bitter, milky juice. As found in the shops, they are in the dried state, sometimes whole, but...
Page viii - A primary knowledge of the end to be accomplished, and a secondary acquaintance with the instruments, are a necessity for successful human effort ; and until the sway of this law is acknowledged by physicians, medicine can never rise from the position of an empirical art to the dignity of applied science.
Page 756 - ... articles of food rich in phosphates, such as oat-meal, disagree ; where, from the character of the motions, there is a deficient or defective secretion of bile It is thus of service in cases of chalky stools or white fluid motions. I have also found it of service in many cases of green stools.
Page ix - Niemeyer's assertion, that experiments made with medicaments upon the lower animals or upon healthy human beings have, as yet, been of no direct service to our means of treating disease, and that a continuation of such experiments gives no prospect of such service, it is certain that in these experiments is the only rational scientific groundwork for the treatment of disease. We must discover what influence a drug exerts when put into the body of a patient before we can use it rationally; and we...
Page 85 - One pole (usually the negative) is placed at the epigastrium, while the other is passed over the forehead and top of the head, by the inner borders of the sterno-cleido-mastoid muscles, from the mastoid fossa to the sternum, at the nape of the neck, and down the entire length of the spine.
Page 144 - That ether usually acts very much more powerfully upon the respiration than upon the circulation, but that occasionally, and especially when the heart is feeble, ether is capable of acting as a cardiac paralyzant, and may produce death by cardiac arrest at a time when the respirations are fully maintained.
Page 770 - To soothe and diminish irritation of the genito-urinary organs. The value of water in fulfilling this and the next indication has already been pointed out. By lessening the acidity of the urine and rendering soluble the uric acid which is present, the alkalies are equally important in carrying out the present and the following indication. 4. To alter the urinary secretion so as to prevent the deposition of calculous material. Notwithstanding it has been claimed otherwise, I think it indubitable that...
Page ix - Evidently, it is his especial province to find out what are the means at command, what the individual drugs in use do when put into a human system. It is seemingly self-evident that the physiological action of a remedy can never be made out by a study of its use in disease.
Page 363 - ... harm; that to a certain extent it is capable of replacing ordinary food, so that if it be scanty, or even if it be coarse and not easily digested, alcohol in some form or other, is of great advantage; that in all cases it should be taken well diluted, so as not to irritate the stomach; and that wine or malt liquors are certainly preferable to spirit.

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