The Medical Summary: A Monthly Journal of Practical Medicine, New Preparations, Volume 29R. H. Andrews 1907 Edited by R.H. Andrews. |
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Page 31 - CONSERVATIVE GYNECOLOGY AND ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICS. A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Women and Their Treatment by Electricity. By G. Betton Massey, MD, Attending Surgeon to the American Oncologic Hospital, Philadelphia; Fellow and Ex-President of the American Electro-Therapeutic Association; Member of the Societe Francaise d'Electro-Therapie, American Medical Association, etc.
Page 95 - By Louis Fischer, MD, Visiting Physician to the Willard Parker and Riverside Hospitals, of New York City ; Attending...
Page 94 - Rays in Therapeutics and Diagnosis. By WILLIAM ALLEN PUSEY, AM, MD, Professor of Dermatology in the University of Illinois; and EUGENE W. CALDWELL, BS, Director of the Edward N. Gibbs X-Ray Memorial Laboratory of the University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York.
Page 85 - One of the pathological features of this peculiar malady is a turgescence of the turbinal tissues, due to excessive dilatation of the capillaries. That this is the result of a neurosis involving a more or less pronounced local vasomotor paralysis is pretty generally conceded.
Page 117 - To the present time no one knew of any source of buttermilk except from the butter-maker; but now-a-days the butter-maker does his work so well that the buttermilk is entirely deprived of the delicious little grains of fat which add so much to its food qualities as well as to taste. True butter-milk, made direct from fresh rich milk, within a few hours, of the finest flavor and taste, nutritious and more excellent than the article as originally known, can now be prepared in any kitchen.
Page 85 - In the treatment of hay fever with Adrenalin Chloride it has been suggested that weak solutions, frequently applied, are apt to yield better results than the occasional application of strong solutions.
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Page 118 - In the old, the lactic fermentation is waited for and expected to occur spontaneously, with disappointment sometimes. In the new, the ferment in pure culture is directly planted in the milk, and the desired fermentation is secured without fail. In Bible days, spontaneous fermentation of dough was depended upon to leaven or lighten bread, and failure frequently attended the process, the dough putrefying instead of fermenting, and was then lost. Finally, man learned to add yeast to the dough and not...
Page 63 - Professor in the University of Berlin. Authorized Translation. Edited and enlarged by William C. Krauss, MD, Buffalo, NY, President Board of Managers Buffalo State Hospital for Insane ; Medical Superintendent Providence Ketreat for Insane; Neurologist to Buffalo General, Erie County, German, Emergency Hospitals, etc.; Member of the American Neurological Association.