The Retrospect of Medicine: Being a Half-yearly Journal, Containing a Retrospective View of Every Discovery and Practical Improvement in the Medical Sciences, Volum 69

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Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1874

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Pàgina lxi - ... so high a degree in consequence of the application of hydrate of chloral, the patients would have dropped from their chairs, and both their pulse and respiration would have been considerably retarded. I have seen croton-chloral acting in the same way on healthy individuals. In some cases of tic douloureux, the remarkable phenomenon is exhibited that pain ceases before sleep sets in. I am sorry to say, however, that this remedy acts only as a palliative in this dreadful disease. I nevertheless...
Pàgina 164 - Senior Surgeon to University College Hospital, and Holme Professor of Clinical Surgery in University College, London. A New Edition, being the Sixth, revised and enlarged ; with 712 Woodcuts.
Pàgina 165 - The air of our London rooms is loaded with this organic dust, nor is the country air free from its pollution. However ordinary daylight may permit it to disguise itself, a sufficiently powerful beam causes the air in which the dust is suspended to appear as a semi-solid rather than as a gas. Nobody could, in the first instance, without repugnance place the mouth...
Pàgina 166 - Nobody could, in the first instance, without repugnance place the mouth at the illuminated focus of the electric beam and inhale the dirt revealed there. Nor is the disgust abolished by the reflection that, although we do not see the nastiness, we are churning it in our lungs every hour and minute of our lives. There is no respite to this contact with dirt; and the wonder is, not that we should from time to time suffer from its presence, but that so small a portion of it would appear to be deadly...
Pàgina xxxiv - That most collected statistics as to the duration of treatment and freedom from relapse are misleading and worse than useless, because usually the treatment was far too short to be effectual. " That it has not yet been proved that there are any special forms of syphilitic disease in which mercury ought to be avoided, although, as a general rule, it is acknowledged that it must be used with more caution in all forms which are attended by ulceration than in others.
Pàgina xxi - EXCHANGES. 257 cerned, seems sufficiently efficacious. It is merely to use strips of plaster, putting on two or three layers in the following manner: The first strip is laid on obliquely in the direction of the ribs, the second across the course of the ribs, the third in the direction of the first, about half overlapping it, the fourth the same as the second, and so on until the entire side is covered.
Pàgina 106 - The limb was shortened about one inch, toes turned inward, and the head of the bone felt in its new situation. The reduction was attempted by the mode described above, the man being fully relaxed by ether. The effect of the first attempt was to throw the head on to the obturator foramen, making the limb longer than the other, and producing the deformity characteristic of that dislocation. From this point, by a slight alteration of the movement, the head could be made to slip back to its original...
Pàgina 131 - There are no operations of importance that the surgeon has to perform which have been more benefited and simplified by the introduction of the galvanic cautery than those upon the tongue ; for there are none in which, without its use, hemorrhage is more troublesome or dangerous, and there are none with its use which more .satisfactorily exhibit its bloodless character. Indeed, before the introduction of the galvanic cautery or ecraseur, operations on the tongue were very rarely performed.
Pàgina 266 - That mercury is probably a true vital antidote against the syphilitic virus, and that it is capable of bringing about a real cure.
Pàgina 296 - The cord cannot be broken, as no traction is made on it. Adherent placenta is less frequently met with. The introduction of the hand into the womb is avoided, and so, also, as a consequence, is the ingress of air. Finally, the tonic and energetic contraction of the womb, following this manoeuvre, prevents the occurrence of haemorrhage or of unruly after-pains.

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