Medical consultation bookE. Von Boeckmann, 1893 - 776 pages |
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... diseases - their changes -- the impossibility for a time , always , to fix on a certain diagnosis , led us to use ... disease , and you will remove the disease itself . On the General Character of Pre- scriptions . Prescriptions may be ...
... diseases - their changes -- the impossibility for a time , always , to fix on a certain diagnosis , led us to use ... disease , and you will remove the disease itself . On the General Character of Pre- scriptions . Prescriptions may be ...
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... disease ? Symptomatology alone is apt to lead us into polypharmacy . But even where the nature of the disease is well understood , as in some in- curable diseases , as cancer , the last stages of phthisis , etc. , and we are obliged to ...
... disease ? Symptomatology alone is apt to lead us into polypharmacy . But even where the nature of the disease is well understood , as in some in- curable diseases , as cancer , the last stages of phthisis , etc. , and we are obliged to ...
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... diseases - with aloes to render its action more certain and less irritating — with cantharidin it renders protection to the kidneys . Nearly all the narcotics unite with characteristic effects . Conium and hyoscyanus have an action of ...
... diseases - with aloes to render its action more certain and less irritating — with cantharidin it renders protection to the kidneys . Nearly all the narcotics unite with characteristic effects . Conium and hyoscyanus have an action of ...
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... diseases , one destroying the force of another . This is not only the case in the effects of counter - irritants , or any other medical disease enforced as a remedial agent ; but it may exist between two violent constitutional diseases ...
... diseases , one destroying the force of another . This is not only the case in the effects of counter - irritants , or any other medical disease enforced as a remedial agent ; but it may exist between two violent constitutional diseases ...
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... diseases , that is , the loss of an enormous amount of fluid in some mysterious way , and in the renal symp- tomatology of the two they diverge to the ut- most extreme . Do these two diseases betray two different morbid conditions of ...
... diseases , that is , the loss of an enormous amount of fluid in some mysterious way , and in the renal symp- tomatology of the two they diverge to the ut- most extreme . Do these two diseases betray two different morbid conditions of ...
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Page 193 - Place the patient on the floor or ground with the face downwards, and one of the arms under the forehead, in which position all fluids will more readily escape by the mouth, and the tongue itself will fall forward, leaving the entrance into the windpipe free. Assist this operation by wiping and cleansing the mouth. If satisfactory breathing commences, use the treatment described below to promote Warmth.
Page 193 - Whilst the above operations are being proceeded with, dry the hands and feet, and as soon as dry clothing or blankets can be procured, strip the body and cover or gradually reclothe it, but taking care not to interfere with the efforts to restore breathing.
Page 193 - Place the patient on the back on a flat surface, inclined a little upwards from the feet; raise and support the head and shoulders on a small firm cushion or folded article of dress placed under the shoulder-blades.
Page 193 - Replace the patient on the face, raising and supporting the chest well on a folded coat or other article of dress. Turn the body very gently on the side and a little beyond, and then briskly on the face, back again; repeating these measures cautiously, efficiently, and perseveringly about fifteen times in the minute, or once every four or five seconds, occasionally varying the side.
Page 22 - Nevertheless, the degree of this action is observed to vary a good deal in different cerebral organizations ; and it is also found that certain stimulants exercise a peculiar and characteristic influence upon special or individual faculties. Thus ammonia and its preparations, as well as musk, castor, wine, and ether, unquestionably enliven the imaginative powers, and thus serve to render the mind more fertile and creative. The empyreumatic oils are apt to induce a tendency to melancholy and mental...
Page 27 - The excito-secretory action of the salt is probably due to the bitterness as well as to the irritant and specific properties of the salt, and not to osmosis. 3. The low diffusibility of the salt impedes the absorption of the secreted fluid.
Page 679 - For dinner, five or six ounces of any fish except salmon, any meat except pork, any vegetable except potato, one ounce of dry toast, fruit out of a pudding, any kind of poultry or game, and two or three glasses of good claret, sherry, or Madeira — Champagne, Port and Beer forbidden.
Page 679 - Beef and mutton in moderation, with horseradish as a relish ; fish and eggs, green vegetables and fruit, especially lemons. The skimmed milk diet has been advocated by some authors.
Page 392 - A wide-mouth glass-stop pered bottle is half filled with cotton or fine sponge, and upon this two or three drachms of the solution are poured. When occasion for its use occurs the mouth of the bottle is to be applied to the temple or as near as possible to the seat of pain, so closely that none of the volatile vapor may escape, and retained there four or five minutes or longer. For a minute or so nothing is felt, then comes a THE CANADA MEDICAL RECORD.