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Page 251 - ... body. Rigor mortis sets in exceedingly early, and, on opening the thorax immediately after death, the heart is found contracted, rigid, motionless, and totally empty. A farther examination discloses remarkable chemical and electrical changes in the heart and other muscles. The muscular juice is acid instead of alkaline, and the external surface is electrically negative to the cut surface, instead of (as normally) positive.
Page 460 - Silicea influences the nutrition, rather than the functional activity, of the tissues which come within its sphere of action : it is hence suited to organic changes rather than to functional disorders.
Page 353 - ... fetid matter, the product of decomposition. Such power is possessed by few other medicines, and certainly exerted by none in the same degree as by mercury.
Page 135 - Sore throat ; fauces and pharynx deep red, soft palate and tonsils swollen ; swallowing painful, particularly fluids ; speech thick, feels like a lump in the throat which induces hawking; throat swollen outside and sensitive to the touch.
Page 376 - ... mutually, antidotes to each other's action. It is generally believed that strychnine exerts a specific action upon the lower or lumbar portions of the spinal column, exciting the muscular system (at least the voluntary muscles) into a state of tetanic contraction, and ultimately producing death indirectly, by rendering respiration mechanically impossible, by virtue of the permanent contraction of the pectoral muscles ; and not, as was once supposed, by its action upon the heart. It is also well...
Page 51 - ... form. The pulse was now small and so rapid as hardly to be counted ; the surface had become cold and dry ; the livid color of the skin, when pressed out with the finger, returned very slowly ; the whole was a most complete picture of torpor...
Page 298 - ... cord and the nerves at their peripheral extremities, also in mechanical injuries, wounds by nails or splinters in the feet, needles under the nails, squeezing or hammering of the toes and fingers, especially the tips of the fingers, when the nerves have been lacerated or torn, with excruciating pains. It prevents lockjaw from wounds in the soles of the feet, or of the fingers and palms of the hands (Prof.
Page 471 - Desires light and company ; worse in the dark and solitude; awakens with a shrinking look, as if afraid of the first object seen.
Page 297 - Hysterical females and young girls whose bowels are apt to bloat and who are subject to attacks of diarrhoea, with colicky pains and frequent urging to stool, or where the sphincters art weak, causing great difficulty in retaining the faeces, and where the least excitement or mental trouble produces the attack. "Hempel. Air-Passages. — "Spasmodic dry cough, always worse by lying down, relieved by sitting up.
Page 125 - The patient cannot go to sleep, because she cannot get herself together; her head feels as though scattered about, and she tosses about the bed .to get the pieces together.