Outlines of the Chief Camp Diseases of the United States Armies as Observed During the Present War: A Practical Contribution to Military MedicineJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1863 - 356 pagina's |
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acid adynamic affection appearance army becomes beef tea bile biliary blood bowels camp fevers catarrh cause cells character chronic diarrhoea color complications condition congestion connective tissue considerable convalescence corpuscles cough course deaths debility delirium described diaphoretics diarrhoea diet disease disorder doses Dover's powder dysentery early stages employed enlarged enteric fever epidemic epithelium especially exists expectoration fatal febrile reaction follicles followed frequently gradually grains granular hepatic hospitals icteroid hue ileum indicated Inflammation intestinal jaundice large number less liver lungs malarial influence mean strength measles ment mucous membrane observed occasionally occur opium ordinary pain paroxysm pathological patient peculiar period phenomena pill pneumonia podophyllin present produce prostration pulse quantity quinia readily regiment region remedies remittent reported result rheumatism scorbutic scurvy sick skin sometimes sulphate surgeon symptoms tendency tents tion treatment troops typho-malarial fever typhoid fever typhus ulceration United States army urine usually vegetable ventilation wounds zymotic
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Pagina 80 - In other cases the whitish or yellowish-white coat, moderately thick on each side of the median line, is thinner toward the middle, tips, and edges, with single enlarged papillae projecting as conical red elevations through the fur. If the disease is not checked by remedies, very frequently, in spite of treatment, a train of symptoms, closely resembling the corresponding stages of enteric fever, sets in toward the latter part of the first or the beginning of the second week. The pulse becomes more...
Pagina 311 - ... the utmost caution. These objections are very similar to those which lie against the use of tartar emetic, and the only fact which justifies the use of veratrum viride in preference, is that the prostration resulting from its excessive action is of much briefer duration than that which follows the operation of the antimonial. Aconite in the form of the tincture of the root is sometimes employed, in the dose of one or two drops every two hours, with a view to its effect upon the pulse. It has,...
Pagina 65 - ... and one pound of potatoes per man shall be issued at least three times a week, if practicable ; and, when these articles cannot be issued in these proportions, an equivalent in value shall be issued in some other proper food, and a ration of tea may be substituted for a ration of coffee, upon the requisition of the proper officer...
Pagina 129 - To prepare this broth, half a pound of the flesh of a recently killed animal, (beef, or the flesh of a fowl,) is chopped fine, and well mixed with a pound and an eighth of distilled water, to which four drops of pure muriatic acid, and from half to a drachm of common salt, have been added. After an hour, the whole is thrown on a common hair seive, and the fluid is allowed to run off without pressure.
Pagina 121 - ... acid mixture. Each of these packages requires half a fluid ounce of the sulphuric acid mixture, and yields about 57 cubic inches of chlorine. This quantity, when thus liberated gradually in a space containing about 20,000 times its volume of air, is borne without inconvenience by persons generally, and is not injurious even in pulmonary diseases. As very much depends upon the ventilation of apartments wherein it is to be used, no absolute rules of application can be laid down, except that it...
Pagina 275 - Nov. 23d to 30th, the weather was cool, damp, with considerable sleety rain and snow. During this time (there being between six and seven hundred men in camp), many of the tents were furnished with ticks, which were filled with straw for the men to sleep on. In the centre of each tent was a fire, built in a hole in the ground, from which the smoke was led off by an underground flue, extending to the outside of the tent. The straw ticks were arranged around the fire, several in a tent, and each tick...
Pagina 326 - Habitual and confirmed intemperance or solitary vice, in degree sufficient to have materially enfeebled the constitution. 10. Chronic rheumatism, unless manifested by positive change of structure, wasting of the affected limb, or puffiness or distortion of the joints, does not exempt. Impaired motion of...
Pagina 345 - Bisections not given in the foregoing table. Also brief information on each of the following heads, when applicable: FEVERS — Their character and symptoms, an outline of the plans of treatment found most efficient, with remarks on the location and sanitary condition of camps or quarters, during the prevalence of these disorders...
Pagina 275 - In the center of each tent was a fire, built in a hole in the ground, from which the smoke was led off by an underground flue, extending to the outside of the tent. The straw ticks were arranged around the fire, several in a tent, and each tick accommodated two men. On December 1st, the weather became colder, and snow fell to the depth of about an inch.
Pagina 347 - Zymotici. ($J/«), leaven.) Diseases that are either epidemic, endemic, or contagious ; induced by some specific body, or by the want or by the bad quality of food.