The Retrospect of Medicine, Volum 53

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Simpkin, Marshall & Company, 1866
 

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Pàgina xx - It was the first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, till I confess it began to be something of a bore to me.
Pàgina 373 - Sedgwick; on January 24th of this year. On the 29th of the same month I •used it again on the same lady for the extraction of three •very difficult teeth, Dr, Sedgwick again operating. The results were as satisfactory as in the previous case, where the ice and salt ether apparatus was used. I have used the apparatus also in connection -with my friend Mr. Adams, who had a case at the Great Northern Hospital of deep dissecting abscess in the thigh of a young •woman. In the abscess there was a...
Pàgina 385 - ... 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 377 - The part consequently dies for the moment, and is insensible, as in death ; but as the vis a tergo of the body is unaffected, the blood, so soon as the external reducing agency is withdrawn, quickly makes its way again through the dead parts, and restoration is immediate. The extreme rapidity of the action of this deadening process is the cause of its safety.
Pàgina 385 - ... incisions, excisions, and evulsions, and perhaps 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, (fee., and as a styptic, and for the destruction by freezing of erectile and other growths.
Pàgina 381 - ... obtained by the employment of ether alone : I mean, the degree of anaesthesia from the spray of absolute ether can be determined by the distance from the part at which the spray is directed : by removing the jet three inches from the part, a moderate effect is produced, nearly equivalent to the dilution of seven parts of ether with one of chloroform. The condition of the patient generally ought likewise to be considered. Aged and weak people become anaesthetic very readily, and for them the milder...
Pàgina 52 - ... changed its meaning in the course of time. Some authors have applied it to chorea, others to fevers, others to various nervous disorders. At present, however, we understand by ataxy, not a disease of itself, but merely a symptom to which various disorders may give rise, and which essentially consists of a want of co-ordination of voluntary movements, and a tendency on the part of the patient to lose his balance, but without actual loss of power, and apart from tremor, chorea, and paralysis.
Pàgina 83 - Accordingly, he directed her to begin with half a-drachm of the tincture (supplied by Bell to the Hospital, and having the strength of one drachm of the bean to one ounce of rectified spirit of wine) administered three times a day in water, and increased it by ten drops at a dose, making no alteration in diet. She very quickly improved in muscular steadiness, and on September 10 the nurse reported " she has cut her own food to-day for the first time.
Pàgina 369 - ... the increased oxidation, the increased flow of blood, the altered nutrition are identical in kind with the first actions of inflammation ; and when the series of actions are repeated over and over again for years, the result is the same as might have been produced in a shorter time by an ordinary inflammation when no alcohol •whatever had been taken.

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