Transactions of the Mississippi State Medical Association..., Volume 19Mississippi State Medical Association, 1886 |
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Page 70 - ... hitherto used. 4. The use of cocaine in neurasthenia is a valuable addition to the treatment. 5. The drug, if administered in large doses persistently, causes a very marked deterioration of the central nervous system, producing a profound cerebral neurasthenia, and may produce such a mal-nutrition of the cerebrum as to develope insanity.
Page 70 - To sum up: 1. Cocaine in small or moderate doses is a cerebral stimulant, but produces derangement of the digestive and assimilative functions, and diminishes the elimination of waste. 2. The use of cocaine in the alcoholic and opium inebriates is not satisfactory; while it is a more or less perfect substitute, yet its use is attended with greater danger than alcohol or opium. 3. The use of cocaine in mental depression, if we carefully guard against the depressing effects of the...
Page 11 - On motion, the Secretary was instructed to cast the ballot of the Association for these gentlemen.
Page 70 - ... (2) The use of cocaine in the alcoholic and opium inebriates is not satisfactory ; while it is a more or less perfect substitute, yet its use is attended with greater danger than alcohol or opium. (3) The use of cocaine in mental depression, if we carefully guard against the depressing effects of the drug upon digestion and assimilation, will often give better results than any drug hitherto used.
Page 80 - I shall now make my confession of faith in the following propositions : 1. There is a fever which is peculiar to puerperal women, and is, therefore, appropriately named puerperal fever. 2. The symptoms of this disease are essential and are not the consequence of any local lesions, and it is as much a distinct disease as typhus fever, typhoid fever, or relapsing fever.
Page 164 - Medicine for pursuing special courses, and for instruction in the recognized Specialties. CLINICAL INSTRUCTION is given daily at the HOSPITAL OF THE JEFFERSON MEDICAL COLLEGE throughout the year by members of the Faculty, and by ths Hospital Staff, and at the Pennsylvania and other Hospitals several times a week.