The Indian Medical Gazette, Volume 101875 |
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abdomen abscess acid affected aged animal appears attacked Bengal blood blow body bone bowels brain Calcutta carbolic acid caused cavity chest chloasma chloral hydrate cholera Civil Surgeon cobra-poison colour congested contracted contused cord Daboia death diarrhoea died disease dispensary Ditto ditto dose ecchymosed effusion erysipelas examination experience extravasation fatal favus female fever fingers fluid fracture given head healthy heart Hindu hospital inches long India injected injury intestines irritation lacerated lathi left side leprosy ligature liver lung Madras male marked matter medicine melasma membrane mucous membrane muscles native neck nerves observed occurred opinion pain passed patient pigment pneumonia poison probably pulse quinine reflex action respiration result ribs right side rupture sanitary scalp sciatic nerve skin skull slight spleen stomach surface Surgeon-Major symptoms temperature thigh tinea tion tissue tongue trachea treatment tumour ulcers urine violence vomiting wound
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Page 159 - ... time to subside, and a restless irritability of temper and disposition comes on, attended with sleeplessness and anxiety, for which no external cause can be assigned. The symptoms gradually become aggravated, the digestive functions give way, nutrition is impaired, and a sense of wretchedness is constantly present, which often leads to attempts at suicide. While all this is going on, however, the patient will talk or transact business with perfect propriety and accuracy, and no stranger can discover...
Page 159 - The Principles of Physiology, applied to the Preservation of Health, and to the Improvement of Physical and Mental Education.
Page 108 - ... it is believed, prove of much service, not only for their own use, but also for the use of their families and establishments. Such a work could not take the place of proper medical advice, nor is it proposed that it should be resorted to where such advice can be obtained; but in the absence of such assistance much might be done, and probably many lives might be saved, if a manual, well suited to the circumstances, accompanied by a small medicine-chest, were placed in the hands of all those who...
Page 278 - ... dog and several other animals would give stains possessing the same properties, and that neither by the microscope nor by any other means yet known to science, can the expert determine that a given stain is composed of human blood, and could not have been derived from any other source. This course is imperatively demanded of him by common honesty, without which scientific experts become more dangerous to society than the very criminals they are called upon to convict.
Page 38 - Gentlemen who have been long resident in the West Indies speak of the employment of the juice for such a purpose as of quite general occurrence ; and more, that old hogs and old poultry which are fed upon the leaves and fruit, however tough the meat they afford might otherwise be, are thus rendered perfectly tender, and good too, if eaten as soon as killed ; but that the flesh very soon passes into a state of putridity.
Page 39 - Indian practitioners, and is reckoned so valuable in the indigestions, stomach-aches, and bowel affections of children, that there is a penalty incurred by any druggist who will not open his door in the middle of the night and sell it if demanded.
Page 190 - I have supervision, and where there are, say, two or three car loads of cattle arriving daily, it is one of the most difficult things in the world for the commissioners to ascertain whether those cattle have been in this western country a year or a month.
Page 271 - ... something, being really nothing, reproach them, as I have reproached you, for not attending to what they ought, and fancying themselves something when they are good for nothing. And, if you do this, both I and my sons shall have received what is just at your hands. " It is now time that we depart, I to die, you to live ; but which has the better destiny is unknown to all except the God.
Page 136 - ... bite of a cobra, or other venomous snake, in animals or man, are depression, faintness, lethargy, and in some cases, somnolence. .There is loss of coordinating power, and paralysis, sometimes affecting the hind legs first and creeping over the body, sometimes affecting the whole body at once. Death occurs by failure of the respiration, and is preceded by convulsions. These symptoms clearly point to paralysis either of the nervous centres or of the peripheral nerves. It may be supposed that the...
Page 112 - ... to lying, she was not believed. Some time after this she complained of pain in the right side above th'e umbilicus, and to the right of the median line. A tumor appeared which was poulticed ; an ulcer formed, and it was then found that the points of the scissors were protruding. Sponge-tents were introduced to enlarge the opening, but, from threatened peritonitis, their use had to be abandoned. From this opening intestinal and biliary matter came away, which showed a communication with the pyloric...