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Page 328 - ... parallel. A full appreciation of this the author trusts will be sufficient justification for placing in book form the substance of his lectures on this department of science, delivered during many years at the University of the City of New York. Broadly speaking, this work aims to impart a knowledge of the relations existing between Physics and Medicine in their latest state of development, and to embody in the pursuit of this object whatever experience the author has gained during a long period...
Page 197 - A COMPLETE PRONOUNCING MEDICAL DICTIONARY. Embracing the Terminology of Medicine and the kindred Sciences, with their Signification, Etymology, and Pronunciation. With an Appendix, comprising an Explanation of the Latin Terms and Phrases Occurring in Medicine, Anatomy, Pharmacy, etc. ; together with the Necessary Directions for Writing Latin Prescriptions, etc., etc. By JOSEPH THOMAS, MD, LLD., Author of the System of Pronunciation in Lippincott's " Pronouncing Gazetteer of the World," and " Pronouncing...
Page 133 - Turn by the bi-manual method as soon as possible; pull down the leg, and tampon with it and with the breech of the child the ruptured vessels of the placenta. Do not extract the child then : let it come by itself, or at least only assist its natural expulsion by gentle and rare tractions. Do away with the plug...
Page 72 - He remarks that it is a dangerous drug to put into the hands of an inexperienced, person, and, as we have so many other useful remedies for this affection, he thinks it wise to avoid the use of corrosive sublimate. He has used listerine extensively with good results in the treatment of whooping cough. He employs it in the strength of one drachm to two ounces of water, with an ordinary hand-atomizer, directs the nurse to apply it twelve or more times a day, and finds that little children, even babies,...
Page 72 - ), Dr. John M. Keating emphasizes the value of the steam spray and the atomization of medicated solutions, among which he ascribes value to Dobell's solution, eucalyptol, and thymol. With the bichloride he advises caution. Corrosive sublimate, which is now used for almost everything, he says, has also been applied here in the form of the spruy.
Page 81 - THE TREATMENT OF HEMORRHOIDS BY INJECTION. — In an instructive clinical paper in the July number of the American Journal of the Medical Sciences, Dr. Charles B. Kelsey, of New York, urges the treatment of hemorrhoids by injection of carbolic acid. After an ample experience this has become his routine practice, and in all his cases he has never known a patient to abandon the treatment after it was begun, and he has never failed to effect a perfectly satisfactory cure by it, and he has never had...
Page 318 - DC, commencing on the first Monday in September, 1887, having accepted, under Rule 10 of the Committee on Preliminary Organization, the charge of the business of the Congress, hereby give notice to the members of the medical profession that they have been actively engaged upon, and have now nearly completed the arrangements for this meeting; and they anticipate the hearty cooperation of the profession everywhere in developing this great scientific and humanitarian assembly. By order of the Executive...
Page 252 - Illustrated by chromo-lithographs and fine wood engravings. Edited by ALBERT H. BUCK, MD, New York City. Vol.
Page 72 - ... sublimate. He has used listerine extensively with good results in the treatment of whooping cough. He employs it in the strength of one drachm to two ounces of water, with an ordinary hand-atomizer, directs the nurse to apply it twelve or more times a day, and finds that the little children, even babies, do not object to it.
Page 295 - The distribution of heart disease among the sane is regulated by the geographical position, dietetic and other influences acting as predisposing causes. Similar conditions appear to exercise an influence over the frequency of heart disease in the insane. 5.