A Manual of practical therapeutics considered chiefly with reference to articles of the materia medicaChurchill, 1871 - 875 pages |
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Page 431 - Even new milk in any quantity is not generally borne well during a course of oil ; and many find malt liquor too heavy, increasing the tendency to bilious attacks. A plain nutritious diet of bread, fresh meat, poultry...
Page 474 - I am fully persuaded that opium never did or can arrest a physiological labor. I have many times been called to cases in which the pains have returned regularly and with increasing intensity for a number of hours without producing dilatation to any extent, and after giving a full opiate have had the satisfaction of finding a marked improvement after sufficient time had elapsed for its absorption, the patient having even harder contractions with less distress than before, and the os uteri being speedily...
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Page 767 - ... symptoms, which are apt to follow the introduction of the drugs by the mouth and rectum, are not usually experienced when such drugs are injected under the skin. 4 That as a general rule, to which, however, there may be exceptions, clear neutral solutions of drugs, introduced subcutaneously, are more rapidly absorbed and more intense in their effects than when introduced by the rectum or the mouth.
Page 61 - In this disease the saccharine particles of the food are not changed in the stomach ; whilst the starch, which most articles of vegetable diet contain in considerable quantities, not having its peculiar properties annulled, and its proneness to the saccharine fermentation being favoured by the warmth and moisture of the stomach, is converted into sugar, which, being readily soluble, is absorbed into the circulation.
Page 155 - Introduce the lime into a stoppered bottle containing the water, and shake well for two or three minutes. After twelve hours the excess of lime will have subsided, and the clear solution may be drawn off with a siphon as it is required for use, or transferred to a green glass bottle iimisbed with a well-ground stopper.
Page 767 - ... other methods ; and, on the other hand, certain unpleasant symptoms, which are apt to follow the introduction of the drugs by the mouth and rectum, are not usually...
Page 609 - ... power. It is used as a medicine in cases of Paralysis. But when the lesion of the nervous centre is of recent occurrence, or when it has been of so serious or extensive a nature as to admit of no repair in the course of time, the remedy will be ineffectual. It is only successful in cases where the injury to the nervous centre has healed up, and where the limb continues paralyzed merely because the motor nerves have lost the power to transmit the necessary impulse, from having been so long unaccustomed...
Page 644 - ... may be given in doses of one or two drachms, to be repeated according to its effects. The best vehicle is cold water ; some will bear and derive advantage from two or three doses of this medicine in the day, experiencing from its use a diminution of headache, and removal of flatulence, together with a moderate action of the bowels and kidneys.
Page 235 - ... or blunt end of a penholder. Almost as fast as applied the collodion solidifies. In contracting it draws closely together the edges of the prepuce, and thus the exit for the escaping urine is closed.