Modern medical therapeutics

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Brinton, 1878 - 598 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 459 - About the end of the second week the tongue sometimes becomes very dry, red, chapped, perhaps coated in the centre with a brownish fur, and at the same time marked meteorism develops. Ten drops...
Pàgina 205 - Even new milk in any quantity is not generally borne well during a course of oil ; and many find malt liquor too heavy, increasing the tendency to bilious attacks. A plain nutritious diet of bread, fresh meat, poultry...
Pàgina 173 - Two tablespoonfuls every three hours until the hemorrhage is arrested. In spite of the fashionable outcry against complicated prescriptions, Dr. Dobell recommends the above as the most efficacious and the most rational combination of remedies for a case of profuse tubercular pulmonary hemorrhage. In any given case, either of the ingredients may be omitted, if the symptoms indicate that it is not required, or that it has already done its duty. The object of the ergot is to contract the vessels ; of...
Pàgina 29 - Potassium may be stated as follows, in the usual order of their occurrence: 1. Contraction of the pupils. 2. Drowsiness. 3. Weakness of the arms and legs. 4. Depression of mind. 5. Failure of memory. 6. Delusions. The first three of these are. I think, usual accompaniments of an active dose of the medicine.
Pàgina 281 - If the dose be vomited, it should be repeated immediately, and the patient should lie still, and take no more liquid for half an hour, by which time the oil will have passed from the stomach into the bowels. Within an hour or two the oil will usually have acted freely. Then a tablespoonful of brandy may be taken in some thin arrowroot or gruel ; and if there be much feeling of irritation, with a sense of sinking, from five to ten drops of laudanum may be given in cold water. These means will suffice...
Pàgina 245 - That in a weak organ, acting because of its weakness with great rapidity, it will reduce the number of its contractions, and, as it were, strengthen or tone them down. To strengthen and quicken the action of a weak...
Pàgina 364 - Oj.) in sweetened water with a little lemon-juice. If at the end of this time the kidneys were beginning to act I allowed a little milk, but not more than a pint in the twenty-four hours ; if, however, the uraemia continued with little or no urinary secretion, I persevered with the water and bitartrate of potash, and in severe cases nothing else has been given for thirty-six hours. Dry cupping, mustard poultices...
Pàgina 68 - ... a shrinking of the brain from this cause. Moreover, we have only to observe its effects upon the human subject to be convinced that this is one of the most important results of its employment. The flushed face, the throbbing of the carotids and temporals, the suffusion of the eyes, the feeling of fullness in the head, all disappear as if by magic under its use.
Pàgina 469 - ... disappeared, or during the intervals between them, tends in most cases still further to derange nature, by determining to the uterus at an unseasonable time, when there is no natural tendency to that organ ; under such circumstances the very same means will frequently fail and prove injurious, which applied so as to coincide with the time of the natural effort, would have been successful. To illustrate these principles by an example : we are consulted in the case of a young woman, affected with...
Pàgina 24 - That the quantity of these medicines to be taken each day must be large enough to produce an evident though not complete anaesthesia of the fauces and upper parts of the pharynx and larynx...

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