The Continental and British Medical Review,: Or Monthly Therapeutical Journal, Volume 11837 |
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abscess action acute affected antiphlogistic appeared applied arthropathia articulation attack attention auscultation bandage baths bladder bleeding blisters blood body bones bowels calomel cancer cartilages cause cauterization cavity chest child chronic cicatrix cicatrization continued convulsions cornea cough cure dilated discharge disease doses drachm efficacious effusion employed erysipelas external fever fluid frequently give gland glottis gout grains head heart hospital increased inflammation injections irritation labour larynx leeches lesion less limb lung lymphatic means medicine mercury method months morbid mucous membrane muscles nature neck nerve nervous nitrate observed operation opinion opium organs ounce pain patient phthisis pleura practitioners prescribed pressure produced proved pulse quinine remarkable remedy respiration respiratory sound result rheumatism scrofulous shew side skin slight sometimes spinal stomach strychnia sufficient surface surgeon swelling symptoms taken therapeutic tion tissue treated treatment tumour ulceration urethra urine uterus vagina veins vomiting womb wound
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Pagina 123 - ... among their female children. If you would go further, so as to make them understand in what their error consists ; what they ought to do, and what they ought to leave undone, you need only point out the difference between the plans usually pursued in the bringing up of the two sexes. The boys are sent at an early age to school, where a large portion of their time is passed in taking exercise in the open air ; while their sisters are confined to heated rooms ; taking little exercise out of doors,...
Pagina 192 - It is found in a clayey soil, in pieces from the size of a grain of millet, to that of a hazel nut, at the depth of one, two, three, four, and five feet.
Pagina 342 - ... intermitting pulse, occasional vomiting, a pale contracted countenance, a sense of coldness ; but the tongue is seldom furred, nor are the vital or natural functions much disordered.
Pagina 340 - ... depending on disease of the heart, with effusion into some of the thoracic cavities, and in which we commonly prescribe mercury in combination with squill and digitalis, the patient is not at first sensible of any improvement, but almost invariably, as soon as the gums become affected, he experiences relief, and perhaps the very next morning after this occurrence he tells us with joy and gratitude that he is considerably better, that he has passed a night of refreshing sleep, and that he has...
Pagina 342 - The gradual approach of this diseased state is commonly indicated by paleness of the countenance, a state of general inquietude, and frequent sighing. The respiration becomes more frequent, sometimes accompanied with a sense of constriction across the thorax; the pulse is small, frequent, and often intermitting, and there is a sense of fluttering about the prsecordium.
Pagina 597 - ... and paler than the vagina, is not difficult. The whole circumference of a very large cervix cannot be examined at once: the position of the speculum requires attention ; and if the parts are not morbidly sensitive, the instrument is easily and safely turned in the vagina : this caution is important; as very lately I overlooked a rather large ulcer on the inferior and posterior surface of the neck, from a neglect of it.
Pagina 231 - ... part gain access to the circulating fluids, and tubercles of various forms, but of the same or analogous character, become developed in some distant organs or textures, which have no direct communication, except through the blood, with the parts in which the new structure was first formed.
Pagina 588 - ... nitrate of silver is to be passed over the moistened surface, taking care that not. only every part of the inflamed skin be touched, but the surrounding healthy skin, to the extent of an inch or more beyond it, in severe cases. The nitrate of silver may...
Pagina 341 - ... freely and as long as can be required for the treatment of any venereal symptom, (or indeed for the cure of any disease curable by mercury,) without the danger of reproducing the same condition. Let us then, during the early period of a mercurial course, say from the second to the twelfth day, anxiously...
Pagina 340 - ... knowledge of the treatment of this disease — I sought to discover the causes of our backwardness. After mature consideration, I was led to attribute it principally to two causes : — First. The imperfect knowledge we possess of the natural course or natural history of the Venereal Disease. Second. The very imperfect knowledge we possess of the means of directing the operation of mercury, so as to make it act in a salutary manner ; and the equally imperfect knowledge we have of the earliest...