The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery, Issues 10-12W. A. Townsend Publishing Company, 1845 - Medicine |
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Page viii - He either retains his consciousness to the last, or is affected with slight wandering delirium ; the pupils are dilated ; general muscular tremors, or even slight convulsions, supervene ; the pulse becomes imperceptible, both at the wrist and heart; the temperature of the surface sinks still lower than before ; and at length, after a few hurried gasps, death by syncope takes place.
Page 26 - On the other hand, when regurgitation takes place, the same thing may be said. When there is obstruction to the passage of the blood from the auricle to the ventricle, dilatation is the morbid consequence. If there were no receptacle for the blood to regurgitate into, it would press on the affected parts, and rupture would be the consequence.
Page 194 - Care should be taken to avoid cutting the posterior tibial artery before it divides into the plantar branches, as, in two cases where I did so, there was partial sloughing of the flap. If the ankle-joint is sound, the malleolar processes should be removed by cutting pliers; but if the articulating surfaces of the tibia and fibula be diseased, a thin slice of these bones should be sawn off.
Page 184 - The knee is more easily reached. As we slip our hand along the anterior surface of the protruding arm, and along the anterior surface of the thorax of the child, we always, if the attitude of the child has not been altered by improper attempts at version, or very irregular uterine action, find the knees near the region of the umbilicus of the infant — the lower extremities, as you are aware, being folded up...
Page 114 - ... adhesion between the opposite sides of the artery at the point compressed is never required. 4. The pressure should not be so great as to interrupt the circulation in the artery at the point compressed ; an essential agent in the cure being that a current of blood should pass through the sac. 5. Compression by means of two or more instruments, one of which is alternately relaxed, is much more effectual than by any single instrument, and in many instances the pressure can be maintained by the...
Page 184 - In few or no cases of turning is it proper or requisite to bring down both extremities, unless in the complication of turning under rupture of the uterus. In that case, but in that only, ought we to follow at once this procedure — and here we follow it, because, if we left the other extremity loose in the uterus or abdomen, it would be apt to increase the lesion in the walls of the organ, if it happened to get involved in the aperture, or impacted against its edges. In some very rare instances...
Page 73 - TREATMENT OF THE ITCH IN BELGIUM. The following circular has been addressed to military surgeons by the Inspector-General of the Belgian army : — Each patient is to be supplied with an ounce or an ounce and a half of liquid sulphuret of lime in a small pot ; this quantity he is to rub carefully and slowly with his hands on every part that is covered with papulae.
Page 191 - ... blood through the vessels of the inflamed part, and excessive action of the heart,) co-exist in that disease, it seems but reasonable to infer that the primary effects of inflammation, being identical with those of undue compression of the blood, are the mere consequences of that physical cause. 2. That there is no relation between the composition of the effused matters and the extent of the dilatation of the coats of the vessels, as measured by the quantity of blood they contain.
Page 67 - If sugar be present, the fluid assumes a reddish colour, and in a few hours the edge of the deposit of oxide...
Page 97 - But the place where these adhesions are most frequently visible, is between the crura of the stapes and the adjoining walls of the tympanic cavity : this, for example, was the case in twenty-four instances out of a hundred and twenty dissections — being a fifth of the number. In one dissection, the bands of adhesion were five in number ; and in other instances they were so strong, that, in removing the stapes, the mucous membrane was torn from the surface of the promontory (No.