St. Louis Courier of Medicine, Volume 17Medical Journal and Library Association of the Mississippi Valley, 1887 |
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Page 256 - Number 5, white flag, six feet square, with black square in centre, indicates the approach of a sudden and decided fall in temperature. This signal is not to be displayed...
Page 499 - ... withdrawn. This should be allowed to remain three or four days or even longer, as after this time there still remain some undissolved particles of the acid, nor will the tampon seem at all offensive. The ostium...
Page 532 - The unqualified diagnosis of rotheln should only be made during an epidemic in which all persons exposed, irrespective of former attacks of measles, are liable to be affected and in whom the symptoms follow a pretty uniform type. In the absence of a pronounced epidemic influence, a series of cases occurring in a household, a school, or an asylum, showing typical symptoms, may be diagnosticated as rotheln with a fair degree of confidence.
Page 433 - A Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences, Embracing the Entire Range of Scientific and Practical Medicine and Allied Science.
Page 256 - ... 2, or 3 it indicates colder weather; when not displayed, the indications are that the temperature will remain stationary, or that the change in temperature will not vary more than...
Page 500 - ... one sufficed; and in no instance has its use occasioned pain, not even inconvenience. I do not claim for this agent and method infallibility, nor should constitutional dyscrasias be ignored and this local treatment be depended on unaided to effect a cure, but here, as in the treatment of leucorrhea by other remedies, a proper association of all means having a curative influence upon the disease constitutes the rational therapeutics. My individual experience with this remedy in the treatment of...
Page 499 - ... nitrate of silver, tincture of iodine, fluid hydrastis and bismuth, hot water irrigations, etc. The experiment was eminently successful, and the patient returned home within a fortnight well and happy, and has so remained ever since, many months, during which time I have had occasion to resort to the remedy frequently and with uniformly good results. My manner of using it is as follows : Having first irrigated the vagina with water at as high a temperature as can well be borne by patient, a cylindrical...
Page 341 - I would define a diathesis to be any bodily condition, however induced, in virtue of which the individual is, through a long period, or usually through the whole life, prone to suffer from some peculiar type of disease.
Page 60 - MORRIS. How We Treat Wounds To-Day. A Treatise on the Subject of Antiseptic Surgery which can be understood by beginners. By ROBERT T. MORRIS., MD 16°, cloth $i oo Lectures on Appendicitis, and Notes on other Subjects.
Page 46 - DUJAKDIN-BEAUMETZ has forwarded to the Paris Academy of Sciences a communication on the Pierrefonds typhoid cases last summer. M. Fernet, who occupies a high post at the Ministry of Public Instruction, his wife and family, hired a house at Pierrefonds, a fashionable resort near Compiegne, contiguous to two others. After they had rented it for the season they were told to beware of the water in the well. On this account they drank exclusively mineral water until the last day, when the stock was out,...