Practice of Medicine: Containing the Homeopathic Treatment of Diseases |
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Page 708 - For chronic recurrent appendicitis with marked thickening, and plastic exudate into the surrounding tissues. 13. If you ask when to operate, I advise following the indicated line of rational surgery. If the quick pulse and pain do not subside speedily, or show improvement within a few hours, it will be good surgery to operate — if the patient will allow you to do so. If they do not, continue the "Oil Treatment
Page 569 - Disagreeable eructations ; nausea ; staggering like a drunken man when walking; deafness to the sound of the voice, but exquisite sensitiveness to the sounds of passing vehicles ; he remarked as each vehicle rolled by that it sounded like the roaring of immense cannons right into his ear; also annoying buzzing in ears.
Page 227 - ... after a few days, and that no definite relation between the severity of the disease and the degree and time of development of the substances causing the reaction has been established. For these reasons a single negative result in any suspected case only renders doubtful the existence of typhoid fever. In those cases in which the reaction is absent after the ninth day, it may be reasonably assumed that the large majority will not prove to be typhoid fever...
Page 228 - Directions for Preparing Specimens of Blood. — The skin covering the tip of the finger is thoroughly cleansed and then pricked with a clean needle deeply enough to cause several drops of blood to exude. Two large drops are then placed on the glass slide, one near either end, and allowed to dry without being spread out on the surface of the slide. After they have dried, the slide is placed in the holder and returned in the addressed envelope to a culture station, or mailed to the laboratory. The...
Page 227 - ... are wanting. It is a peculiar callous look and an orange-yellow or saffron-yellow hue of all the prominent parts of the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet — parts which, as is well known, are more or less rosy in health and become bluish in cases of cyanosis. The phenomenon is explained by the enfeebled action of the heart, a diminished amount of blood in the capillaries, and the dryness of the skin. He has observed it in every case seen by him during the last two great epidemics...
Page 708 - The easily diagnosed pus case requires speedy surgical attention. 15. That half an ounce of sweet oil followed by a glass of hot water, taken half an hour before meals, should be continued until pain or soreness ceases, which may be three months. As improvement ensues take two doses a day, and finally one.
Page 708 - Trendelenberg position. 7. That glycerine and water, in the proportion of I to 4, is to be used at times to dissolve impaction. 8. That food in acute attacks should be omitted and only water allowed and that freely. Later, oatmeal gruel strained, milk peptonized, mutton or chicken broth with strained rice gruel. 9. All of the above suggestions should be carried out as indicated, vigorously, systematically, and perseveringly. 10. The remedies used throughout as indicated, are : Aconite, veratrum vir.,...
Page 228 - Two large drops tire then placed on the glass slide, one near either end, and allowed to dry without being spread out on the surface of the slide. After they have •dried, the slide is placed in the holder and returned in the addressed envelope to a culture station, or mailed to the laboratory. "Directions for Obtaining Specimens of Serum from Blisters.— The shield (designed to protect the blister from rupture) is stripped from its protecting gauze and applied to the- skin somewhere on the anterior...
Page 530 - It is customary with the old school physicians to shave the scalp and apply an iodoform ointment for two or three days. The internal administration of the drug will probably do as much if not more good. I have used it in the second decimal trituration giving one tablet every two hours.
Page 227 - ... or dried blood solution is added to twenty parts of the culture, the presence of a previous or existing typhoid infection may, for diagnostic purposes, be practically considered as established.