The Medical Age, Volume 4George S. Davis, 1886 - Medicine |
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... taken care of in St. Mary's and Harper hospitals ; they have a large accommodation and are not half full , and owe something to the state and city for exemption from taxation . DR . LYSTER said that DR . FLINTERMANN had the argument ...
... taken care of in St. Mary's and Harper hospitals ; they have a large accommodation and are not half full , and owe something to the state and city for exemption from taxation . DR . LYSTER said that DR . FLINTERMANN had the argument ...
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... taken place , but to leave the boil or carbuncle to nature . Since the furuncle is a parasitic affection , the essence of the treat- ment ought to consist in destruction of the parasite . One of the first precepts is to apply no ...
... taken place , but to leave the boil or carbuncle to nature . Since the furuncle is a parasitic affection , the essence of the treat- ment ought to consist in destruction of the parasite . One of the first precepts is to apply no ...
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... taken by mouth . Beef - tea , milk and brandy have been largely used for this purpose , and I have heard of arrowroot being so used in considerable quantities . Some amount of stimulation can be attained by the use of some of the ...
... taken by mouth . Beef - tea , milk and brandy have been largely used for this purpose , and I have heard of arrowroot being so used in considerable quantities . Some amount of stimulation can be attained by the use of some of the ...
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... taken up by the hæmoglobin of the blood- corpuscles to the point of almost complete saturation , i . e . , within nine - tenths of the point of saturation . The oxygen here is in the form of ozone , as has been sometimes asserted , but ...
... taken up by the hæmoglobin of the blood- corpuscles to the point of almost complete saturation , i . e . , within nine - tenths of the point of saturation . The oxygen here is in the form of ozone , as has been sometimes asserted , but ...
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... taken three times a day before meals . The drugs should be absolutely pure . DR . DEFOE says he has tried this remedy thoroughly , and finds it a specific for the worry of nervous women and for incipient melancholia . - New York Medical ...
... taken three times a day before meals . The drugs should be absolutely pure . DR . DEFOE says he has tried this remedy thoroughly , and finds it a specific for the worry of nervous women and for incipient melancholia . - New York Medical ...
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Page 287 - ... the result which requires but a minimum of the digestive act. Such fluid can be flavored and drank as a nutritive beverage, specially acceptable in febrile conditions. Flavored with lemon, ginger, cloves or other flavoring agents to give variety— a matter far too much neglected in the treatment of the sick — it can be largely used. Or wine, either red wine as claret, or sherry, or port, can be added to it when a little stimulant is required, and brandy when a stronger stimulant is indicated....
Page 56 - It has long been known that in the vertebrate kingdom one sex bears rudiments of various accessory parts, appertaining to the reproductive system, which properly belong to the opposite sex ; and it has now been ascertained that at a very early embryonic period both sexes possess true male and female glands. Hence some remote progenitor of the whole vertebrate kingdom appears to have been hermaphrodite or androgynous.
Page 287 - The body-temperature is kept up by the combustion of grape sugar. Grape sugar is supplied from carbo-hydrates, either the insoluble starch, or the soluble sugar. Starch forms a great portion of our food and is converted into grape sugar within the body. Where the system is unequal to the digestion of starch, as in feeble digestion, or conditions of acute disease, then predigested starch must be furnished to the organism. Otherwise the system will perish of exhaustion, just as a fire dies out when...
Page 246 - Sanitary Convention, under the auspices of the Michigan State Board of Health, held its sessions June 1 and 2, 1886.
Page 60 - Fumigate with sulphur dioxide for twelve hours, burning three pounds of sulphur for every 1000 cubic feet of air space in the room ; then wash all surfaces with one of the above-mentioned disinfecting solutions, and afterward with soap and hot water; finally throw open doors and windows and ventilate freely.