Clinical Therapeutics: Lectures in Practical Medicine : the Treatment of Nervous Diseases, of General Diseases, and of Fevers

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G.S. Davis, 1885 - 491 pagina's

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Pagina 51 - A disease of the nervous system manifesting itself by pains which appear to follow the course of certain nerves, ramifying sometimes into a few, sometimes into all the terminal branches of those nerves.
Pagina 50 - In spite of extensive researches into the functions of the nervous system, we have not yet succeeded in obtaining precise and certain data concerning neuralgia.
Pagina 457 - Vaccinae, A Disease Discovered in Some of the Western Counties of England. Particularly Gloucestershire, and Known by the Name of the Cow Pox...
Pagina 362 - Guttmann has given kairin in cases of pneumonia, measles, phthisis, typhoid fever, scarlatina, pleurisy, peritonitis, erysipelas, ague, septicaemia, and apparently always with advantage. On the other hand, Dr. H. Menche's (of Rheydt) experience with it in the pyrexial stages of pneumonia, pleurisy, and pernicious anaemia was unfavorable, which has been attributed by others to the use of large doses. In rheumatism, he found that its use was followed by diminution of the pain, but not by any reduction...
Pagina 85 - Bear constantly in mind the truth that the aim of your discipline should be to produce a self-governing being ; not to produce a being to be governed by others. Were your children fated to pass their lives as slaves, you could not too much accustom them to slavery during their childhood ; but as they are...
Pagina 90 - I do not intend here to enter into the details as to the physiological action of these bromides, of which I shall have more to say when I come to the treatment of epilepsy.
Pagina 35 - When we desire to modify the cutaneous sensibility and nutrition in general we make use of static electricity; when we wish to limit electricity to a group of muscles, or when we wish to restore contractility to certain muscles, we use the faradic machine; when, finally, we wish to modify the molecular state of certain nerves, or give a new activity to certain tissues, we employ galvanism.1 1 [Here, in the original, follows an exposition by Dr.
Pagina 324 - Take of Iodide of arsenic, Red iodide of mercury, each, thirty-five grains. Distilled water, half a pint. Rub the iodides with half a fluidounce of the water, and when they have dissolved, add the remainder of the water and filter.
Pagina 455 - On the Varieties and Modifications of the Vaccine Pustule, occasioned by an Herpetic State of the Skin, 13 pp., quarto, Cheltenham, H.
Pagina 363 - Nothnagel. It has the constitution of a secondary chinoline base, being one of a number of chinoline derivatives prepared by Prof. Skraup, and is represented by the systemic name, "tetrahydroparachinanisol." The salts of this base, which have an acid reaction, are freely soluble in water, and have the property of forming green compounds when treated with solution of ferric chloride and oxidizing agents. On account of this peculiarity, the cumbrous systemic name has been dropped in favor of the shorter...

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