A Handbook of the theory and practice of medicine

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Lindsay & Blakiston, 1874 - 1052 pagina's
 

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Pagina 848 - ... from the size of a pin's head to that of a pea ; scattered through a large body of sand or clay ; and in this state it is called by the Mandingoes sanoo munko,
Pagina 1051 - A HISTORY OF THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, from its Foundation in 1765: with Sketches of Deceased Professors, &c.
Pagina 1051 - Plates. 8vo. clotb, 12s. 6d. LECTURES ON THE GERMS AND VESTIGES OF DISEASE, and on the Prevention of the Invasion and Fatality of Disease by Periodical Examinations. 8vo.
Pagina 115 - ... may if it is the body of a person who has died of an infectious disease, or if he considers immediate burial necessary, direct that the body be buried immediately, without removal to the mortuary.
Pagina 204 - ... into punctures, or rubbed on scarified surfaces. PHENOMENA FOLLOWING VACCINATION. — At the end of the second or beginning of the third day, little papular elevations are visible over the points of inoculation, with slight redness around. The elevation and redness increase, and by the fifth or sixth day, distinct vesicles form. These are round or oval, bluish-white, raised at the margin, and depressed in the centre.
Pagina 513 - The circumstances under which paracentesis ought to be performed for pleurisy are the following : — "1. In all cases of pleurisy, at whatever date, where the fluid is so copious as to fill one pleura, and begins to compress the lung of the other side ; for in all such cases there is the possibility of sudden and fatal orthopnoea.
Pagina 409 - With regard to the employment of emetics, the revulsive action through which they are supposed to exert an influence upon croup is altogether problematic. Still less may we promise ourselves help from their diaphoretic effect. They are only indicated where obstructing croup-membranes play a part in producing the dyspnoea, and when the child's efforts at coughing are insufficient to expel them.
Pagina 513 - ... 2. 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 479 - Cells, the products of inflammation, accumulate in the alveoli and minute bronchi, crowd upon each other, becoming densely packed, and thus by their mutual pressure they bring about their own decay, as well as that of the lung textures, by interfering with their nutrition, the alveolar walls being also themselves damaged by the inflammatory process.

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