Virginia Medical Monthly, Band 17

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1891
 

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Seite 246 - A NEW MEDICAL DICTIONARY: Including all the words and phrases used in Medicine, with their proper Pronunciation and Definitions, based on Recent Medical Literature. By George M. Gould, BA, MD, Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Philadelphia Hospital, etc.
Seite 594 - ... acids serving to eliminate from the body noxious matters, which, if retained, would make the brain heavy and dull, or bring about jaundice or skin eruptions and other allied troubles.
Seite 860 - ... until experience has been more extended. Physical Characters. — Somnal is a colorless liquid, resembling chloroform in its appearance and behavior when added to cold water, in which it forms globules and refuses to mix or dissolve. When shaken with water, the mixture is milky but quickly separates. It is soluble in hot water and alcoholic solutions, and dissolves resinous substances and fats. The odor is faint, not very penetrating or disagreeable, and resembles that of the spirits of nitrous...
Seite 863 - ... the digestive ferment of the carica papaya. These are the only preparations really valuable as nutrients. But the physician meets here with another difficulty, in many cases insurmountable ; the taste of the peptones is, more or less, bitter and objectionable to the palate, so that patients either absolutely refuse to take them, or take them only with the greatest repugnance. Besides this, their price is comparatively so high that frequently the physician is obliged to abstain from prescribing...
Seite 865 - Essentials of Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Prescription Writing, arranged in the form of Questions and Answers. Prepared especially for Students of Medicine...
Seite 862 - Somnal, therefore, acts well as a hypnotic in acute alcoholism as a tranquillizer and hypnotic. In a case of neuralgia of the bowels (visceral neurosis of Allbutt), where the patient had a sleepless night, a dose of twenty minims relieved nausea and pain, and the patient fell asleep. In syphilitic headache and insomnia, somnal in moderate doses failed to produce sleep, which was afterwards secured by potassium bromide and iodide, and antipyrine.
Seite 865 - ... oatmeal porridge and milk and sugar. Again, it may be mixed with chocolate, which makes a delicious beverage, or given in the form of a sandwich, and finally as a plain beef tea, simply dissolving it in hot water, adding salt. Mosquera's Beef Cacao consists of equal parts of beef meal, sugar and a superior article of Dutch cacao.
Seite 951 - The association starts with a strong and vigorous membership, and has every prospect of a most useful and successful career. The next meeting will be held in Philadelphia in September of this year.
Seite 741 - The proper subjects for treatment are patients in the initial stage of phthisis, for in them the curative action can be most fully shown, and for this reason, too, it cannot be too seriously pointed out that practitioners must in the future be more than ever alive to the importance of diagnosing phthisis in as early a stage as possible. Up to the present time the proof of tubercle bacilli in the sputum was considered more as an interesting point of secondary importance, which, though it made diagnosis...
Seite 71 - Spinal Concussion. SURGICALLY CONSIDERED AS A CAUSE OF SPINAL INJURY, AND NEUROLOGICALLY RESTRICTED TO A CERTAIN SYMPTOM GROUP, FOR WHICH is SUGGESTED THE DESIGNATION ERICHSEN'S DISEASE, AS ONE FORM OF THE TRAUMATIC NEUROSES. By SV CLEVENGER, MD, Consulting Physician Reese and Alexian Hospitals; Late Pathologist County Insane Asylum, Chicago...

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