The Woman's Medical Journal, Volume 8

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Recorder Publishing Company, 1899
 

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Page 184 - Her heart had been irregular for some years but now the pulse was 130 and her temperature 103°. Physical examination revealed pneumonia of the right lung. I prescribed two grains of phenacetin and six grains of protonuclein to be repeated every two hours. By 10 o'clock the next day her temperature was 99 3-5° and her pulse 108; the pain in her side was less and she felt much better. The phenacetin was discontinued and the protonuclein continued. By the third day her temperature was normal and she...
Page 262 - Prompt ; it stimulates the appetite and the digestion, it promotes assimilation, and it enters directly into the circulation with the food products. The prescribed dose produces a feeling of buoyancy, and removes depression and melancholy ; hence the preparation is of great value in the treatment of mental and nervous affections. From the fact, also, that it exerts a double tonic influence, and induces a healthy flow of the secretions, its use is indicated in a wide range of diseases. NOTICE-CAUTION....
Page 262 - OF LEGAL MEDICINE AND TOXICOLOGY. Edited by FREDERICK PETERSON, MD, Clinical Professor of Mental Diseases in the Woman's Medical College, New York ; Chief of Clinic, Nervous Department, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York; and WALTER S. HAINES, MD, Professor of Chemistry, Pharmacy, and Toxicology in Rush Medical College, Chicago.
Page 101 - as it were — we begin the treatment as follows: 1. Inject a quarter of a grain of cocaine dissolved in a drachm of water into the membranous portion of the urethra. 2. Anoint the largest...
Page 341 - Diseases of the Eye. By EDWARD JACKSON, AM, MD, Professor of Diseases of the Eye in the Philadelphia Polyclinic and College for Graduates in Medicine ; and — Essentials of Diseases of the Nose and Throat.
Page 100 - For the closure of this open end, and for the easy insertion of the catheter, as well as for other purposes, a bulbous or rounded head is used, preferably solid, and attached to one end of a wire, passing through the body or tube and projecting at its rear or outlet end. This construction forms a very efficient catheter having an area of opening so large as to greatly obviate the danger of clogging, for, if mucus should lodge against the open end, the working of the head back and forth upon its seat...
Page 262 - Vitalizing Constituent — Phosphorus ; the whole combined in the form of a Syrup with a Slightly Alkaline Reaction. It Differs in its Effects from all Analogous Preparations; and it possesses the important properties of being pleasant to the taste, easily borne by the stomach, and harmless under, prolonged use. It has...
Page 29 - The jars I return to you represent the number of pounds of Unguentine I have used since December 1st last. I have from twelve to fifteen cases a day, motormen, conductors, and stablemen, suffering from slight wounds, abrasions, cuts, bruises and burns, and about the only treatment I make is to give them a small box of Unguentine. It is certainly my sheet anchor in practice, as in every instance it heals all the above cases quicker than anything I have ever used.
Page 372 - Quincke have demonstrated incontestably that the favorable results which have been obtained, since olden times, from the administration of iron are actually attributable to its absorption, and not, as Bunge would have it, to accidental circumstances, to diet alone, or even suggestion. Control experiments in this direction with indifferent medicaments are readily carried out, and were repeatedly mentioned at the Congress of 1895. It should be added that these control experiments were followed by no...
Page 183 - My first practical experience with Protonuclein was on myself. About two and a half years ago I was taken with a severe attack of acute catarrhal inflammation of the nasal mucous membrane, which rapidly extended down the trachea into the bronchi. It began on a Friday morning with an almost incessant sneezing, accompanied by blocking of the nose...

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