Cincinnati Medical and Dental Journal, Volume 3M.A. Spencer, 1887 |
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Page 160 - Thou art every where present, we believe that Thou art in this patient's stomach, in every fibre, in every cell, in every atom, that Thou art the sole, only Reality of that stomach. Heavenly, Holy Reality, we will try not to be such hypocrites and infidels, as every day of our lives to affirm our faith in Thee...
Page 160 - Help us to stoutly affirm with our hand in Your hand, with our eyes fixed on Thee, that we have no dyspepsia, that we never had dyspepsia, that we will never have dyspepsia, that there is no such thing, that there never was any such thing, and that there never will be any such thing. Amen.
Page 62 - The production of a new organ in an animal body, results from the supervention of a new want (besoin) continuing to make itself felt, and a new movement which this want gives birth to and encourages.
Page 52 - DC, said there was sometimes difficulty in recognizing the contractions of the uterus, and they might be excited by polypi, by the retention of menstrual fluid, or by fibroids. They were principally of value after the third month. During the first and second months we had no positive means of diagnosis. In single women the diagnosis of pregnancy could not be certainly made by uterine contractions alone. An important point in searching for this sign was to irritate the uterus slightly to make it contract....
Page 423 - you are right ; but I wish, nevertheless, to make your remark a text for a little parting advice. You see me at a little over forty in full practice, my rooms...
Page 216 - ... till the eye becomes inflamed, bind a handkerchief around the head, and go to bed. This is all wrong. The better way is not to rub the eye with the cinder in it at all, but rub the other eye as vigorously as you like. A few years since I was riding on the engine of the fast express from Binghamton to Corning. The engineer, an old schoolmate of mine, threw open the front window, and I caught a cinder that gave me the most excruciating pain. I began to rub the eye with both hands. "Let your eye...
Page 52 - The sign mentioned was especially valuable before the fetal heart-sounds could be distinguished, and in the third month when it could be employed in addition to Hegar's sign. One important result of these contractions was that when the uterus contracted forcibly, its contained blood was suddenly emptied into the surrounding parts, distending them, and thus favoring the dilatation of the parturient canal. Dr. AFA King, of Washington...
Page 115 - OTIS in your hat, that you may have them always handy for reference : 1. Fully explain to the patient the inefficiency of popular remedies, and the dangers attending their use. 2. Secure absolute personal cleanliness, thereby preventing infection of other parts, and insist upon as nearly perfect rest in bed as the exigencies of the case will permit. 3. Soak the penis frequently in water as hot as can be borne, but more especially during the act of micturition. 4. Recommend milk as a diet, and prescribe...
Page 419 - ... one-fourth of a pound to two pounds. 4. Air or gas can be forced through the whole alimentary canal from anus to mouth under a pressure varying from one-third of a pound to two pounds and a half.
Page 12 - I feel that the country should be congratulated to-day upon the presence at our capital of so many of our own citizens, and those representing foreign countries who have distinguished themselves in the science of medicine, and are devoted to its further progress. My duty in this connection is a very pleasant and a very brief one. It is simply to declare that the Ninth International Medical Congress is now open for organization and for the transaction of business.