A Manual of the practice of medicineBlakiston, son & Company, 1890 - 877 pages |
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... position until every effort has been made to find out what organ or structure may be at fault , and we should never permit ourselves to fall into the slovenly habit of ticketing all symptoms with the name of dis- eases , and treating ...
... position until every effort has been made to find out what organ or structure may be at fault , and we should never permit ourselves to fall into the slovenly habit of ticketing all symptoms with the name of dis- eases , and treating ...
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... position secondary in importance to that of the disease . which causes them . Lastly , we must in all cases counteract the tendency to death , which may , indeed , be the natural course of the disease , or may arise rather as an ...
... position secondary in importance to that of the disease . which causes them . Lastly , we must in all cases counteract the tendency to death , which may , indeed , be the natural course of the disease , or may arise rather as an ...
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... position . Etiology . - Relapsing fever attacks patients of all ages , and of both sexes , though male patients have been more numerous , in the proportion of three to two . The occurrence of epidemics is very little affected by season ...
... position . Etiology . - Relapsing fever attacks patients of all ages , and of both sexes , though male patients have been more numerous , in the proportion of three to two . The occurrence of epidemics is very little affected by season ...
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... position , sufficient fresh air , and nutritious fluid food are essential . Sponging with tepid water , or packing in wet sheets , will give temporary relief when the fever is very high , and headache may be treated with cold ...
... position , sufficient fresh air , and nutritious fluid food are essential . Sponging with tepid water , or packing in wet sheets , will give temporary relief when the fever is very high , and headache may be treated with cold ...
Page 126
... position , namely , iodide of potassium . Under its use the most serious and alarming nervous symptoms , due to syphilitic lesions , rapidly subside , ulcerating skin lesions quickly heal , and syphilitic bone pains and nodes disappear ...
... position , namely , iodide of potassium . Under its use the most serious and alarming nervous symptoms , due to syphilitic lesions , rapidly subside , ulcerating skin lesions quickly heal , and syphilitic bone pains and nodes disappear ...
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abdomen abscess acid acute affected albumin albuminuria anæmia aneurism arteries atrophy attacks becomes bile blood body bowel brain Bright's disease bronchi bronchial bronchitis cancer catarrh cause cavity cerebral changes chest chronic color commonly compression condition contraction convulsions cord cough cyst degeneration Diagnosis diarrhoea dilatation disease doses dyspnoea effusion endocarditis enlarged enteric fever especially expectoration faradic fatal fibres fluid frequent glands grains heart hemorrhage hypertrophy increased inflammation intestine irritation jaundice kidney larynx lesion less limbs liver lung meningitis mitral mucous membrane murmur muscles muscular myelitis nephritis nerve neuritis normal obstruction occasionally occur optic neuritis pain paralysis paralyzed patient peritonitis phthisis pleurisy pneumonia present pressure Prognosis pulmonary pulse pyæmia pyrexia quantity rarely reflex renal result rheumatism side skin slight sometimes spinal spleen stages stomach suppuration surface symptoms syphilis takes place temperature thickened tion tissue treatment tubercle tubercular tubes tumor ulceration urine ventricle vessels vomiting
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