The Medical Forum: A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Interests of the Medical Profession, Volume 4, Issue 8; Volume 4, Issues 10-12

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Page 286 - INVOLUNTARY URINATION very often means a distended bladder, and in old men it should at once indicate an examination into the condition of the prostate. Vomiting, too, is often caused by distension of the bladder.
Page 286 - The temptation should not be yielded to to incise a psoas, hip or other " cold " abscess, except in isolated instances and then only under the most rigid asepsis. The production of a mixed infection means chronic sinus, chronic invalidism and, often, amyloid disease.
Page 282 - The inclined-to-criticize will kindly excuse the above. In no plainer language, even if inelegant, can we designate that well-known but peculiar functional state of the circulation due to instability of action of the vasomotors (lack of physiological balance) that calls for cactus grandiflorus, or cactin, its most desirable preparation. The indication for cactin is not the pulse telling of cardiac inefficiency and calling for digitalin; neither, to the careful clinician, does It call for "the lash"...

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