A Year-book of therapeutics, pharmacy and allied sciences. 1872

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W. Wood, 1872
 

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Pagina 44 - On the 2d of the present month I visited Mrs. Matthews, at South Bend, and was indeed astonished at the rapid change which had taken place. The tumor had become soft, the color natural, the secondary glandular deposits had all disappeared. The improved complexion, muscular firmness, and elasticity of spirits, all pointed to an early and complete recovery. * Mrs. Handy, residing on M Street, in this city, was the next subject of experiment with the cundurango. This was a highly-typical and fearfully-advanced...
Pagina 43 - ... raised edges, hard and scarlet-colored, bleeding profusely at the slightest touch, emitting an odor of the most sickening and disagreeable kind, discharging a brownish, cancerous, limpid fluid; the countenance bloated, tallowy-looking, with a bluish pallor of the whole face; the lips turned blue at the least exertion, so that I have been very much alarmed, fearing a rapid crisis and dissolution; at the same time the tumor itself enlarged with fearful rapidity, so much so that I could notice the...
Pagina 319 - Take of phosphorus six grains, suet six hundred grains, melt the suet in, a stoppered bottle capable of holding twice the quantity indicated ; put in the phosphorus, and when liquid, agitate the mixture until it becomes solid ; roll into three-grain pills, and cover with gelatine. Each pill will contain one-thirtythird of a grain of phosphorus.
Pagina 43 - I notice about one-third of the surface has turned from a scarlet to a white color, and it has commenced suppurating as though the thing were dead and coming out. The whole tumor is very much flattened, the discharge is different and not near so offensive. The greatest improvement is in her complexion. From a tallowy, puffy-looking, and somewhat bluish skin, she is regaining her old natural look, the skin shrinking, becoming wrinkled and clear. " I am so happy in the prospect of a cure that I feel...
Pagina 28 - ... and mental depression. We may therefore infer that the formation of sulphur compounds within the circulation from disease might account for some examples of excessive temporary prostration, for the cause of which we have as yet no satisfactory explanation. — Medical Times and Gazette, April, 1871.
Pagina 43 - The stony condition of the tumor has given place to softness. This morning I notice about one-third of the surface has turned from a scarlet to a white color, and it has commenced suppurating as though the thing were dead and coming out. The whole tumor is very much flattened, the discharge is different and not near so offensive. The greatest improvement is in her complexion. From a tallowy, puffy-looking, and somewhat bluish skin, she is regaining her old natural look, the skin shrinking, becoming...
Pagina 227 - Must fyrst serve God, forsee the end, be clenly, pity the poore. 2. Must not be suborned for money to hurt mankynde. 3. His place of dwelling and shop to be clenly to please the sences withal. 4. His garden must be at hand with plenty of herbes, seedes and rootes. 5. To sow, set, plant, gather, preserve and kepe them in due tyme. 6. To read Dioscorides, to know ye natures of plants and herbes. 7. To invent medicines, to chose by coloure, fast, odour, figure, etc.
Pagina 103 - If diarrhoaa occur, a mixture containing laudanum and sulphuric acid may be given. In regard to the time when a small-pox patient may be considered free of danger to his neighbors, Dr. Collie says that this cannot be until all the products of disease are removed from his body, and until he presents all the ordinary indications of health, such as a normal temperature, a quiet pulse, a clean tongue, a clear mind, etc. — Philadelphia Medical Times.
Pagina 102 - Effervescing drinks and lemonade may also be allowed. For heat of skin the patient may be sponged with cold water two or three times daily. If there be much restlessness or sleeplessness, the following repeated in half an hour, if needed, will be found...
Pagina 166 - ... have been, most satisfactory of all the cases treated in the Dumfries Infirmary (several of which were of the confluent type); not one has, on recovery, presented the slightest trace of disfiguration. The application, moreover, was most grateful to the patients' feelings, allaying the itching and irritation, and preventing the desire to scratch off the scabs which is so annoying to the sufferers in the later stage of the disease. In the case of gunpowder burning, the acid, in addition to its...

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