Journal of Cutaneous and Genito-urinary Diseases, Volume 20

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1902
 

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Page 192 - Francaise d'Urologie, modified to suit American circumstances and conditions. Whenever possible, the branch associations throughout the United States, British possessions and Spanish America, will hold their meetings on the same evenings as does the parent association in New York (the first Wednesday in each month). The work of the association is principally clinical, for the demonstration of new methods in the technique of examination and treatment. The annual meeting of the American Association...
Page 47 - Progressive signs of kidney deterioration, as shown by the persistence or increase of albumen when it should be diminishing or disappearing from the urine, as in the natural course of inflammatory disorders ending in resolution; (2) suppression of urine, or approach to this stage; (3) where a marked disturbance of the heart and circulatory apparatus arises in the course of inflammatory renal disorders.
Page 474 - An infected soft rubber catheter cannot be completely sterilized by boiling under four and one-half minutes. 2. Mechanical cleansing from all dried pus, coagulated blood or mucus will render sterilization easier and will demand a shorter time to be effective. 3. Elastic (English web) catheters and...
Page 399 - ARTHUR VAN HARLINGEN, MD, Professor of Diseases of the Skin in the Philadelphia Polyclinic and College for Graduates in Medicine ; late Clinical Lecturer on Dermatology in Jefferson Medical College ; Dermatologist to the Howard Hospital.
Page 474 - Chemical sterilization by immersion in a 1.2000 mercuric chloride solution for five minutes does not sterilize any variety of catheter which has become infected, at best only inhibiting the growth of the germs, for if the mercuric salt be precipitated by ammonium sulphide the germs will grow freely when implanted in culture media.
Page 99 - OF DISEASES OF THE SKIN. By Jay F. Schamberg, AB, MD, Professor of Diseases of the Skin, Philadelphia Polyclinic and College for Graduates in Medicine; Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia; Member of the American Dermatological Association.
Page 474 - The results of experiments, as stated in the previous conclusion, indicate that chemical sterilization should never be employed for catheters which are to be retained in the bladder for any length of time, unless subjected to a very prolonged action of the mercurial salt, lest the merely inhibited germs develop. 6. Should corrosive sublimate be employed for the sterilization of catheters, it must be in a concentrated solution, and the catheter must remain in it for a much longer time than the usual...
Page 46 - In the case of infections of the kidney due to a urea-decomposing microorganism, a stone is very likely to be present if the case is at all chronic. 12. Certain conditions exist which present most of the symptoms of cystitis but no infection; the most difficult of which to diagnose is probably urinary hyperacidity of neuropathic origin, the successful treatment of which depends upon the successful recognition both of its urinary features and its general basis. 13. Although the diagnosis of renal...
Page 192 - Thus gynecologists, who embrace renal and vesical surgery in their work, are among the founders, as are also several gentlemen who devote themselves to the microscopy and chemistry of the urine, as well as a number of practitioners interested in the study of the kidney from a medical standpoint. The association consists of active, corresponding and honorary members, and is in great measure modeled upon the plan of the Societe Francaise d'Urologie, modified to suit American circumstances and conditions.
Page 467 - The Technics of Nephropexy, as an Operation per se, and as Modified by Combination with Lumbar Appendicectomy and Lumbar Exploration of the Bile Passages.

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