The Woman's Medical Journal, Volume 6Recorder Publishing Company, 1897 |
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Page 259 - American Text-Book of Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat. Edited by GE DE SCHWEINITZ, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology in the University of Pennsylvania ; and B.
Page 259 - Surgical Diagnosis and Treatment. By JW Macdonald, MD, Graduate of Medicine of the University of Edinburgh; Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh; Professor of the Practice of Surgery and of Clinical Surgery, Minneapolis College of Physicians and Surgeons. Anders' Theory and Practice of Medicine.
Page 204 - ... on the left side, with the hips well elevated, and the employment of a long, flexible rectal tube. In this manner we secure and maintain an antiseptic condition in both the stomach and large intestine, the importance of which will be understood when we consider the large number of micro-organisms which grow under these favorable conditions with such remarkable rapidity. When deemed advisable, the solution introduced into the lower bowel may be combined with large quantities of either hot or cold...
Page 125 - ... current, the disinfection of the bowel surface with a solution of hydrozone, before and after the placing of the sutures, the control of oozing from the cicatricial tissue by the same means and the closure by a single row of silk-worm gut sutures without drainage of the abdominal wound after the washing of the peritoneal cavity with saline solution, some of which is allowed to remain. In concluding, the writer stated that ever since September, 1893, when he had proved the value of hydrogen dioxide...
Page 33 - Treatment should be classified into (a) preventive, and (b) curative. The preventive treatment should be subdivided into medicinal and hygienic ; and the curative into medicinal and obstetric. A qualitative and quantitative analysis of the urine must be made at the onset. If there is defective elimination something must be done speedily to correct a faulty relationship between nutrition and excretion.
Page 34 - Cesarean section should be reserved for extreme complications, as deformed pelvis, or to preserve the fetus when the mother's condition is hopeless. Veratrum viride is dangerous, uncertain and deceptive in action. In eclampsia of pregnancy, ie, prior to term, the aseptic bougie, introduced to the fundus and coiled within the vagina, may be employed to induce labor. Finally, to promote the elimination of toxic material diuresis, catharsis, and diaphoresis should not be forgotten : neither should the...
Page 204 - ... either hot or cold water, which enables us to obtain the benefits of irrigation in addition to the antiseptic effects. These irrigations may be employed as frequently as deemed advisable by the medical attendant, but they will usually prove satisfactory if administered at intervals of four hours. Although brief, it is believed this communication will prove serviceable to a large number of practitioners who have hitherto found serious difficulties in counteracting the mephitic influences...
Page 23 - I want to say to those who are trying to learn to speak and those who are teaching them: Be of good cheer. Do not think of to-day's failures, but of the success that may come to-morrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles...
Page 225 - MISSISSIPPI VALLEY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. — The next meeting of the Mississippi Valley Medical Association will be held in Louisville, on October 5, 6, 7 and 8, 1897.
Page 260 - A Text-Book of Obstetrics. By BARTON COOKE HIRST, MD, Professor of Obstetrics in the University of Pennsylvania. Handsome octavo volume of 848 pages, with 618 illustrations, and 7 colored plates.