A dictionary of pratical medicine. 3 vols. [in 4]. 3 vols. [in 4].1858 |
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abdomen acid action acute adhesions affected apoplexy appear asphyxia asthenic attacked attended blood bowels brain calomel camphor causes cavity changes chiefly cholera chronic circulation circumstances cold congestion consequent death demulcent digestive disease disorder distemper doses effusion emollient employed empyema endemic epidemic epigastrium especially evacuations exciting exist extended external fatal favourable fever fluid frequently hemiplegia infection inflammation inflammatory influence injurious instances intestines irritation lesions less limbs Lond lungs lymph malady malignant matter morbid mucous muscles nature nerves nervous numerous observed occasions occur oesophagus opium organs owing pain palsy pancreas paralysis paraplegia patient pellagra period periosteum peritoneum peritonitis persons pestilence pestilential physician plague pleura pleural cavity pleurisy poison present produced pulse quantity rapid rarely remarkable respiration serous sometimes spinal chord stage stances stomach strychnia substance supervene surface symptoms taken takes place tion tissue treatment usually vascular vessels viscera viscus vital vomiting warm whilst yellow fever
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Page 206 - in the most explicit manner, concur in representing the plague as a contagious disease, communicated by near approach to, or actual contact with, infected persons or things.
Page 165 - Father of light, then I cried, Thy creature who fain would not wander from thee! Lo, humbled in dust, I relinquish my pride: From doubt and from darkness thou only canst free.
Page 123 - ... appeared in Asia and in Europe, and from intimate observation of its phenomena, as they lead to various considerations calculated to arrest its progress and to remedy it, when an attack has not proceeded too far in the destructive processes in which it has been shown to terminate. A. The pestilential cholera seems to have been propagated by an animal miasm or effluvium of a peculiar kind, emanating from the bodies of the affected ; and this effluvium being inhaled with the air into the lungs,...
Page 73 - If the peritoneum which lines the cavity of the abdomen inflames, its inflammation does not affect the parietes of the abdomen ; or if the peritoneum covering any of the viscera is inflamed, it does not affect the viscera. Thus the peritoneum shall be universally inflamed, as in puerperal fever, yet the parietes of the abdomen and the proper coats of the intestines shall not be affected.
Page 349 - ... allied to those of the chlorides of tin and nitrate of silver. In the state of chloride it occasions death in three or four minutes when injected into the veins even in very minute doses ; and the lungs are found after death so turgid as to sink in water. But if it be swallowed corrosion takes place, the salt is so rapidly decomposed that none is taken up by the absorbents, and death ensues simply from the local injury.
Page 191 - Cold water was eagerly resorted to by the unwary and imprudent, and proved fatal to those who indulged in its momentary relief. Some had one, two, or more buboes, which formed themselves, and became often as large as a walnut, in the course of a day ; others had a similar number of carbuncles ; others had both buboes and carbuncles, which generally appeared in the groin, under the arm, or near the breast. Those who were affected...
Page 206 - The roost diligent search was made for those people, and very high pay was promised to them, but we could tempt none of them to live in our pest-houses : a plain proof of the opinion which they entertain of the contagious nature of the disease. The thirteen gentlemen first mentioned were those only that were directly in the way of contagion, for it became their duty to come in contact with the infected, and seven of them caught the infection, and four died.
Page 248 - ... a coagulum of blood. The femoral portion of the vein, slightly thickened in its coats, and of a deep red colour, was filled with a firm bloody coagulum, adhering to the sides of the tube, so that it could not be drawn out.
Page 115 - In the very commencement of the epidemic, all our four surgeons were seized with it ; two died on their journey to Zaretzin, and one here. From this moment fear and anguish took possession of the public mind. They who could flee from the city, fled ; and, as the malady was not considered contagious, servants, labourers, Tartars, and Russians, were permitted to rush into the country.
Page 123 - The impression of this effluvium on the organic class of nerves, and the vitiated state of the blood, may be viewed as the proximate cause, not only of the disturbance evinced by the respiratory, the secreting, the assimilating, and the circulating functions, but also of the morbid actions of the stomach and bowels, and the copious serous discharges from...