Texas Medical Journal, Volume 34

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Mrs. F. E. Daniel, 1918
 

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Page 26 - A GOOD SURGEON MUST HAVE AN EAGLE'S EYE, A LION'S HEART, AND A LADY'S HAND.
Page 106 - I also find Tongaline very beneficial in muscular pains, due to a- sluggish liver and inactive bowels. When a patient comes to me complaining of soreness all over, I place him upon Tongaline, and it has never disappointed me...
Page 70 - Whirling Spray" Syringe is that The Marvel, by its Centrifugal action, dilates and flushes the vaginal passage with a volume of whirling fluid, which smooths out the folds and permits the injection to come in contact with its entire surface.
Page 29 - June it is not a bad plan for the physician to take mental "stock" of the babies under his care, especially such as are bottle-fed, with the general idea of recommending such treatment as will tone up and vitalize those whose nutrition may be below par, so that they may enter the trying summer months in the best possible condition to ward off or withstand the depressing influences of extreme heat or the prostrating effects of the diarrheal disorders of the heated term. Careful attention to feeding...
Page 112 - It is very important that every person who becomes sick with influenza should go home at once and go to bed. This will help keep away dangerous complications and will, at the same time, keep the patient from scattering the disease far and wide. It is highly desirable that no one be allowed to sleep in the same room with the patient. In fact, no one but the nurse should be allowed in the room. If there is cough and sputum or running of the eyes and nose, care should be taken that all such discharges...
Page 186 - HEAP on more wood ! — the wind is chill ; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.
Page 113 - Where crowding is unavoidable, as in street cars, care should be taken to keep the face so turned as not to inhale directly the air breathed out by another person. It is especially important to beware of the person who coughs or sneezes without covering his mouth and nose. It also follows that one should keep out of crowds and stuffy places as much as possible, keep homes, offices, and workshops well aired, spend some time out of doors each day, walk to work if at all practicable — in short make...
Page 68 - In malarial conditions a diuretic is not indicated as often as the symptoms suggest, as one always has to contend with a torpid liver that is throwing a part of its work on the kidneys, meaning double duty for the latter. In such cases the rational treatment is to use some agent which will stimulate all the excretory organs, dividing the duty of each and causing thorough elimination. Tongaline, either alone or in combination with other agents, as Indicated, will invariably expel the malarial and...
Page 98 - It is a method of recording all physicians who are not yet in service and classifying them so that their services when required will be utilized in a manner to inflict as little hardship on the individual as possible. It is a method by which every physician not in uniform will be entitled to wear an insignia which will indicate his willingness to serve his Government.
Page 97 - Defense, the strong governing board of the reorganized corps will be able to be of increasing service, and through it the finely trained medical profession of the United States is not only made ready for service in connection with the activities already mentioned, but the important work of the Provost Marshal General's office and the Red Cross will be aided and the problems of the health of the civilian communities of the United States assured consideration.

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