The Monthly Abstract of Medical Science, Volume 4

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Henry C. Lea, 1877
 

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Pagina 433 - On examining the bodies of such patients after death I have , failed to discover any organic lesion that could properly or reasonably be assigned as an adequate cause of such serious consequences...
Pagina 433 - It makes its approach in so slow and insidious a manner that the patient can hardly fix a date to his earliest feeling of that languor which is shortly to become so extreme.
Pagina 433 - The patient can no longer rise from his bed, the mind occasionally wanders, he falls into a prostrate and half-torpid state, and at length expires. Nevertheless, to the very last, and after a sickness of, perhaps, several months...
Pagina 433 - ... attempting it; the heart is readily made to palpitate; the whole surface of the body presents a blanched, smooth, and waxy appearance; the lips, gums, and tongue seem bloodless; the flabbiness of the solids increases; the appetite fails; extreme languor and faintness supervene, breathlessness and...
Pagina 536 - ... treatment. In these cases it is not any imperfection in the process of blood manufacture which is to be remedied, for the blood is made rapidly and quickly, only to be lost at each menstrual period. It is here desirable rather to limit the rapidity of the blood formation, so that when the several vascular turgescence of the menstrual period comes, it will not find the blood-vessels too distended with blood. This will lead to diminished catamenial loss, and so the blood waste will be economized.
Pagina 580 - The safest mode of remittance is by bank check or postal money order, drawn to the order of the undersigned ; where these are not accessible remittances for subscriptions may be made at the risk of the publishers by forwarding in registered letters.
Pagina 545 - ... from the size of a pin's head to that of a split pea, with a depressed dark scurf in the centre, surrounded with an inflamed base declining in two or three days.
Pagina 516 - ... is one (the face) in which these movements would be impossible, the operator must gently tuck in the nerve into its bed. A small bit of drainage tube is to be placed at the bottom of the wound, which may then be appropriately closed by a few sutures. Lister's dressing and spray ought to be used in these cases, as rapid union and a small scar must be tried for.
Pagina 258 - It has been given in doses of from five to ten grains three times a day. The...
Pagina 516 - Were a hook used for the stretching, there would be a danger of locally injuring the nerve itself, which is not possible when the finger is used. In the case of small nerves it would be impossible to pass the finger beneath them, and hence a thin elastic band may be substituted. In this way an elastic traction can be exercised without the risk of bruising or otherwise injuring the nerve itself. The last part of the operation consists of the dressing. If the stretched nerve does not recede when the...

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