North American Journal of Homoeopathy, Volum 15

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1867
 

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Pàgina 588 - He answered and said. Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not : one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.
Pàgina 159 - ... of cholera patients, are capable, in connexion with well-known localizing conditions, of propagating the cholera poison; and that rigidly enforced precautions should be taken in every case of cholera to permanently disinfect or destroy those ejected fluids by means of active chemical agents; also that with the same object in view, the strictest cleanliness of person and premises should be enforced upon all "who have charge of the sick; also, that all privies, water-closets, and. cesspools should...
Pàgina 485 - Of the contrivances invented to supplement bandages, many were even more objectionable, and little improvement has been made in general treatment up to the present time. Having successfully used interdental splints, in many cases which had proved unmanageable under the usual treatment, I am convinced that they are superior to all other appliances. .» When a well adapted splint is on the teeth and gum, the other parts around the bone are, to a great extent, a countersupport to the splint. Thus the...
Pàgina 250 - When a man is seized with cholera, he should at once lie down, be well wrapped up in blankets, and take every five minutes four drops of the saturated tincture of camphor. In very severe cases, the dose ought to be increased to from five to twenty drops every five minutes. In the case of a man of advanced age, accustomed to take wine and spirits, where the drug given in drops...
Pàgina 306 - ... and bitter taste. If some shavings of camphor are thrown on the surface of perfectly clean water in a large basin, the pieces immediately begin to move rapidly, some round on their centres, others from place to place. The cause of these motions is unknown. Camphor exists in many plants, but is chiefly derived from two, one a native of China and Japan, much resembling the laurel.
Pàgina 463 - ... the floor; stoves were placed in each hospital ward to insure a draught; all windows were kept open day and night ; the clothing taken from cholera patients was sent directly to the boilers ; a ward was established for patients with the diarrhoea, and the value of this measure is shown by the fact that of the large number received into this ward only one died. It was difficult, however, to persuade these poor creatures to report themselves at this stage of the disease.
Pàgina 196 - ... its free delivery; 15° below zero is easily produced by this apparatus. The bottle, when not in use, should be kept tightly corked, a precaution by no means superfluous, as the liquid readily loses its more volatile parts by evaporation, leaving a denser and consequently less efficient residue. In this, and in several more expensive forms of apparatus in metal, both with...
Pàgina 192 - ... extremity of the outer tube. Now, when the bellows are worked, a double current of air is produced, one current descending and pressing upon the ether forcing it along the inner tube, and the other ascending through the outer tube and playing upon the column of ether as it escapes through the fine jet. By having a series of jets to fit on the lower part of the inner tube, the volume of ether can be moderated at pleasure ; and by having a double tube for the admission of air, and two pairs of...
Pàgina 196 - ... the extraction of teeth, may be thus effected with admirable ease and certainty; and for these purposes surgeons will use it, as also, perhaps, for the relief of neuralgia, chronic rheumatism, <5cc., and as a styptic and for the destruction by freezing of erectile and other growths.
Pàgina 195 - Richardson not being absolutely necessary to congeal the tissues with the rhigolene, as in his experiments with common ether. I have for convenience used a glass phial, through the cork of which passes a metal tube for the fluid, the...

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