The Homeopathic Eye, Ear, and Throat Journal, Volume 4

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1898
 

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Page 29 - A Text-Book of the Practice of Medicine. By JAMES M. ANDERS, MD, PH. D., LL. D., Professor of the Practice of Medicine and of Clinical Medicine, Medico-Chirurgical College, Philadelphia.
Page 366 - A Text-Book Upon the Pathogenic Bacteria. For Students of Medicine and Physicians. By Joseph McFarland, MD, Professor of Pathology and Bacteriology in the Medico-Chirurgical College, Philadelphia : Pathologist to the Philadelphia Hospital and to the Medico-Chirurgical Hospital, Philadelphia.
Page 98 - Journal. Feb. 1872. It gives us great pleasure to call the attention of the profession to this excellent work. Our knowledge of its talented and accomplished author led...
Page 405 - ... very profuse and was readily controlled at this time. The patient returned home, and soon after suffered from an attack of nervous sick headache, to which she was subject upon occasions of nervous strain. As usual, the headache ended with an attack of retching, after which straining the hemorrhage started in afresh and rather profusely. I tried again to control it with styptics and plugging the naris with absorbent cotton, but did not succeed in thoroughly arresting the flow of blood, and, as...
Page 406 - I could only remove a part of the tampon from the interior naris. The next two days I removed still more of the sponge anteriorly, in all about two-thirds of it being removed up to this time, the patient still being too weak to bear much manipulation. On Thursday morning, January...
Page 308 - It has been known for years (since the time of Laennec) that the disease has been found to be most advanced at the apices and that it progresses downwards, usually more rapidly in one of the lungs. Kingston Fowler has found that the turberculous lesions, in their onward progress through the lungs, follow, in a majority of cases definite routes. In the upper lobe the primary lesion is not, as a rule, at the extreme apex but from an inch, to an inch and a quarter, below the summit of the lung and nearer...
Page 274 - ... hopeless task. The burden of the decision as to surgical interference must rest upon the shoulders of the patient. 4. Repeated operations in these cases undoubtedly shorten the life of the patient. While it is therefore our duty to operate in all cases in order to relieve severe or unbearable pain, we should be slow to operate merely for the sake of relieving temporarily physical disfigurement...
Page 405 - ... benefit, but for the last two or three years she has had a rather profuse nasal discharge, thickened, and increasingly offensive in character, with obstruction to nasal respiration, loss of smell, nasal voice, and the other usual symptoms which we find in an aggravated case of chronic rhinitis. Lately she had suffered from headache, which was increasing in severity, and was also troubled with weeping of the left eye. She had been using an atomizer for some years without getting any other relief...
Page 406 - ... pass a cotton holder around it and lift it from its bed. After cocainizing, I grasped it with a dressing forceps, and, giving it a twist, removed it. I then thoroughly cleansed and disinfected the cavity with the hydrozone solution, which removed the odor and rendered the cavity wholesome. The next day the two smaller pieces were removed while cleansing and treating the nose. They were loose and seemed as though they had just scaled off from the bed where the larger piece had lain. The spraying...
Page 364 - A CLINICAL TEXT-BOOK OF MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS, for Physicians and Students, Based on the Most Recent Methods of Examination. By OSWALD VIERORDT, MD, Professor of Medicine at the University of Heidelberg...

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