New York Medical Journal, Volume 5

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Miller & Matthews, 1867
 

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Page 221 - THE FUNCTIONS AND DISORDERS OF THE REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS IN CHILDHOOD, YOUTH, ADULT AGE, AND ADVANCED LIFE, considered in their Physiological, Social, and Moral Relations.
Page 85 - It is the opinion of eminent medical authority, that " in a perfect state of things, where the best appliances which the science and skill of the age 'have provided for healing, are offered to the lunatics in as early a stage of their malady as they are to those who are attacked with fever or dysentery, probably eighty — possibly ninety — per cent, would be restored.
Page 85 - The ratio of incurables is steadily increasing for the want of greater public accommodations for the early treatment of mental disease. It is the opinion of eminent medical authority, that " in a perfect state of things, where the best appliances which the science and skill of the age have provided for healing, are offered to the lunatics in as early a stage of their malady as they are to those who are attacked with fever or dysentery, probably eighty, possibly ninety per cent, would be restored.
Page 250 - By keeping the edge of the posterior flap out of the way by a broad copper spatula or the fingers of an assistant, and taking care to keep the edge of the knife close to the bone, as in excision, the trunk of the posterior circumflex is protected.
Page 139 - ... not really cured. In typhoid fever, the rise of temperature, or its abnormal fall, will indicate what is about to happen three or even four days before any change in the pulse or other sign of mischief has been observed. A sudden fall of temperature has thus denoted intestinal hemorrhage several days before it appeared in the stools. A fall as low as 93° was noticed by Parkes in a case of this kind.
Page 462 - A distinguished surgeon in New York city, twenty-five years ago, said, when Dupuytren's operation for relaxation of the sphincter ant was in vogue, every young man who came from Paris found every other individual's anus too large, and proceeded to pucker it up. The result was that New York anuses looked like gimlet-holes in a piece of pork.
Page 443 - It might be laid down as a general law, that nature would not tolerate the concurrent progress of these two conditions.
Page 530 - ... brandy. As regards heart-disease, the utmost discrimination is required in the use of stimulants. There are cases where an undoubted benefit is produced by them; but there are others, and these I have seen repeatedly, where alcohol has induced palpitation, fluttering, great distress, and constant sleepless nights, but where, on the other hand, the withdrawal of the spirit, and the substitution of a dose of digitalis or henbane, has been of the most essential service. The administration of a stimulus,...
Page 463 - Now-a-days, even our young women must have their wombs shored up, and if a baby accidentally gets in by the side of the machinery, and finds a lodgment in the uterus, it may, perchance, have a knittingneedle stuck in its eyes before it has any. It is the easiest thing in the world to introduce a speculum and pretend to discover ulceration of the os, and subject a patient to this revolting manipulation once or twice a week, when there is, in fact, nothing the matter.
Page 203 - ... situated full as favorably, if not more so, for feeling any such influence, exhibiting little or no change of temperature. Whatever the cause was, it certainly appeared to have its seat in the head. In all these experiments, changes of position, or any other disturbing cause, were carefully avoided. Pursuing these experiments farther, it was found that anything that aroused the attention was capable of causing a greater or less rise of temperature on the part of the head, over and above that...

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