The Cincinnati Medical Journal, Volume 5

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M.A. Spencer, 1890
 

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Page 97 - ... themselves of an arthritic nature. "(3) That, although sometimes leading to a fatal issue, this variety of haemoptysis usually subsides without the supervention of any coarse anatomical lesion of either the heart or the lungs.
Page 284 - ANNUAL and Practitioner's Index for 1890. Edited by PW Williams, MD, Secretary of Staff, assisted by a corps of thirty-six collaborators— European and American— specialists in their several departments. 600 octavo pages. Illustrated.
Page 247 - A NEW MEDICAL DICTIONARY. Including all the Words and Phrases used in Medicine, with their proper Pronunciation and Definitions, based on Recent Medical Literature. By George M. Gould, BA, MD, Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Philadelphia Hospital, etc.
Page 288 - Such bond shall be signed and secured by two or more sufficient sureties, who shall be freeholders or householders, to be duly approved by one of the judges of the court in which such suit shall be commenced, conditioned that if the plaintiff shall not maintain such suit, or shall not recover against the defendant, such sureties shall well and truly pay to the defendant all costs and damages that the defendant may sustain by reason of such suit and all legitimate expenses incurred in defending the...
Page 324 - Committee have selected the following topics for consideration at said meeting : 1. Sanitary Construction in House Architecture. (a) Heating. (b) Lighting. (c) Drainage. (d) Ventilation. 2. Sewage Disposal. 3. Maritime Sanitation at Ports of Arrival. 4. The Prevention and Restriction of Tuberculosis. 5. Isolation Hospitals for Infectious and Contagious Diseases. 6. Establishments in Favorable Climates for Persons Having Tuberculous Predispositions (a) Schools for Children and Adolescents.
Page 59 - ... liable to be breathed into the lungs of any one. If the lungs of the person who does breathe them are poorly developed, or if the constitution is feeble, the germs are very sure to grow and cause the disease. Unfortunately, we do not know how to kill them when they are once in the air passages. The best that can be done is to build up the system and strengthen the lungs by the use of cod-liver oil, good food and fresh air.
Page 165 - The work of the congress will be discharged by eighteen different sections. The members shall declare upon enrollment to which section or sections they intend more particularly to attach themselves. V. The committee of organization shall, at the opening sitting of the congress, suggest the election of a definite committee {or bureau) which shall consist of a president, three vice-presidents, and of a number — as yet undetermined — of honorary presidents and secretaries. At the first meeting of...
Page 229 - ... will allow of the complete exposure of the abdominal cavity, the removal of the cause of inflammation, and assist in restoring the functions of the intestines : The abdomen is opened in the median line ; the cause, if found, removed ; the cavity thoroughly douched with hot water; all adhesions broken up, and, if tympanites is not marked, drainage tubes are introduced, through which the cavity may be washed out, as indications require. If the cause be found in the region of the caecum the drainage...
Page 298 - Any one who has used it will never resort to either of the above named remedies. I have used it the last six years and have never had it fail in but one case. In that case there was evidently organic disease. Ordinarily one injection relieves the pain permanently. Sometimes two, and in one very severe and obstinate case which had gone through the hands of several physicians without relief, it required three. After the third injection he never had a twinge of pain. I put it in the temple, as nearly...
Page 167 - All addresses and papers in the general and sectional meetings must be handed over to the secretaries, in writing, before the end of the sitting. The Editorial Committee shall decide whether, and to what extent, these written contributions shall be included in the printed Transactions of the Congress. The members who have taken part in the discussions will be requested to hand over to the secretaries, before the end of the day, in writing, the substance of their remarks. 12. The official languages...

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