Essentials of the Principles and Practice of Medicine: A Handbook for Students and Practitioners

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Henry C. Lea, 1881 - 669 pagina's
 

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Pagina 643 - Take a sufficient quantity (say two or three quarts) of wheat bran, boil it in two successive waters for ten minutes, each time straining it through a sieve, then wash it well with cold water (on the sieve), until the water runs off perfectly clear ; squeeze the bran in a cloth as dry as...
Pagina 169 - ... fine silver or copper wire six or eight inches in length. The silver plate is then placed in immediate contact with the bedsore, and the zinc plate on some part of the skin above, a piece of chamois-skin soaked in vinegar intervening. This •must be kept moist, or there is little or no action of the battery. Within a few hours the effect is perceptible, and in a day or two the cure is complete in the great majority of cases. In a few instances a longer time is required.
Pagina 583 - ... on the back, the roll of clothing being so placed as to raise the pit of the stomach above the level of the rest of the body.
Pagina 643 - ... dry as you can, then spread it thinly on a dish, and place it in a slow oven ; if put in at night, let it remain until the morning, when, if perfectly dry and crisp, it will be fit for grinding. The bran thus prepared must be ground...
Pagina 268 - I give an ounce every two, three, or four hours, according to the severity of the case — that will be from twelve to thirty-six grains of quinine in the twenty -four hours according to the case.
Pagina 196 - In all cases of double pleurisy when the total fluid may be said to occupy a space equal to half the united dimensions of the two pleural cavities. " 3. In all cases where, the effusion being large, there have been one or more Jits of orthopnoea.
Pagina 591 - That, given an emmetropic or normal eye, the probabilities are that no harm will come to it from the educational process. On the other hand, given an eye with an anomaly of refraction, especially astigmatism, the probabilities are, other things being equal, that the educational process will be fraught with pain and danger to the eye.
Pagina 616 - ... ounces of boiling water. Mix the solutions, and wash the precipitated phosphate of iron till the washings are tasteless. Dissolve...
Pagina 44 - Paget as being chiefly or only three, namely: (i) the increased exercise of a part in its healthy functions; (2) an increased accumulation in the blood of the particular materials which a part appropriates to its nutrition or in secretion; and (3) an increased afflux of healthy blood.
Pagina 171 - An hour is chosen midway between two meals, and, the patient lying in bed, the manipulator starts at the feet, and gently but firmly pinches up the skin, rolling it lightly between his fingers, and going carefully over the whole...

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