The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly Journal Containing a Retrospective View of Every Discovery and Practical Improvement in the Medical Sciences ..., Volumes 52-53William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan W. A. Townsend Publishing Company, 1866 - Medicine Being an analysis of the British and foreign medical journals and transactions; or, a selection of the latest discoveries and most practical observations in the practice of medicine, surgery, and the collateral sciences, for the past year, made chiefly with reference to the treatment of disease. |
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Page 83 - exhibited atropia in various forms, both in pill and in solution ; but my later experience has led me to the adoption of a plan of treatment, of which the following is an outline. The subjoined draught is given the first thing in the morning and the last thing at night on an empty stomach.
Page 21 - Cases of undoubted Typhus, with daily Records of the Temperature, the Respirations, and the Pulse.—In all of the following cases the eruption of typhus was distinct. Most of them were admitted about the end of the first or the beginning of the second week ; but it is always a difficult matter to
Page 286 - bad cases of dysmenorrhoea there is frequently retention of the fluid of the uterus, owing to mechanical obstruction at the junction of the cervix with the body of the uterus. Where the cervix is hard and dense, cutting operations are most indicated, but under other circumstances the use of tents is preferable. (Dr. Graily Hewitt, p.
Page 258 - F., it proved that the mercury was easily depressed by this agent to 19° below zero, and that the skin could be with certainty frozen hard in five or ten seconds. A lower temperature might doubtless be produced, were it not for th'e ice which surrounds the bulb of the thermometer. This result may
Page 258 - at 70° F., one of the most volatile liquids obtained by the distillation of petroleum, and which has been applied to the production of cold by evaporation. It is a hydrocarbon, wholly destitute of oxygen, and is the lightest of all known liquids, having a specific gravity of 0.625. It has been shown that petroleum, vaporized and carefully condensed at different
Page 171 - gouty or rheumatic taint, or when the patient is much addicted to the use of stimulants, and when there is a tendency to acidity of the stomach, and to the. deposit of lithates in the urine. The indications, indeed, for the use of alkalies in eczema and psoriasis are nearly the same.
Page 250 - a double tube for the admission of air, and two pairs of hand bellows, the volume of ether and of air can be equally increased at pleasure, and with the production of a degree of cold six below zero. When the ether spray thus produced is directed upon the outer skin, the
Page 60 - It is of the utmost importance to improve the sleep, which is generally so bad in patients attacked with a morbid increase of the reflex excitability. For this purpose an invaluable remedy has recently been discovered : it is the bromide of potassium. Excepting when pain is one of the causes preventing sleep (in which
Page 291 - The Restoration of Health ; or The Application of the Laws of Hygiene to the Recovery of Health; forming a Manual for the Invalid, and a Guide in the Sick-Room. By
Page 292 - Stimulants and Narcotics ; their mutual relations. With special researches on the action of Alcohol, Ether, and Chloroform, on the Vital Organism. By Francis