An Epitome of Braithwaite's Retrospect of practical medicine and surgery v.2, Volume 2W.H. Tinson, 1860 |
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Página 153 - ... adopted is as follows: — Two or three handfuls of the leaves of the ricinus are taken and treated as before. The decoction is poured, while yet boiling, into a large vessel, over which the woman sits, so as to receive the vapor over her thighs and generative organs, cloths being carefully tucked around her so as to prevent the escape of the steam. In this position she remains for ten or twelve minutes, or until the decoction cooling a little, she is enabled to bathe the parts with it, which...
Página 205 - Divide in haustus quatuor. Sumatur unus mane nocteque. Thus one-sixteenth of a grain of protoxide of arsenic, and one-fourth of a grain of protoxide of mercury, would be taken in each dose, along with two-fifths of a grain of iodine, which, being in the state of combined hydriodic acid, will be much diminished in energy of medical effect.
Página 571 - ... acid, or of lithate of ammonia. Their most striking effect is, to improve the appetite, when this has been impaired from hard drinking, or from over-work, or from nervous exhaustion from other causes ; and the best time for giving them is from half an hour to an hour before meals. The different...
Página 346 - The proximate cause, or at all events an essential condition of the tubercular diathesis, is the decrease in the system of the phosphorus which it contains in an oxygenizable state. The specific remedy of the disease consists in the use of a preparation of phosphorus, uniting the two conditions of being, in such a state that it may be directly assimilated, and at the same time at the lowest possible degree of oxydation.
Página 333 - In one of the cases, the disease had gone so far that there was distinct cavernous rattle with pectoriloquy, muco-purulent and purulent expectoration streaked with blood, great emaciation, hectic fever, &c., and yet the patient made a perfect recovery at the end of a few months, the sea salt having been given uninterruptedly for sixty days. M. Latour directs a particular regimen to be followed during the treatment. The aliment should consist almost exclusively of beef or mutton grilled or roasted,...
Página 51 - ... of this form for the administration of Iodine. Probably in the state of an oxide, the Iodide of Calcium is superior to the Iodide of Potassium in several particulars :
Página 212 - Capiat uiiaiii bis terve in die. There is a troublesome and often an obstinate form of gastric irritability, denominated by the French estomac glaireuse, in which the patient occasionally ejects by eructation, a tasteless, watery fluid, and which is accompanied often by a severe burning, pain in the epigastric region.
Página 677 - ... carefully watched. At first you may see him every two or three days, and then every day ; and as soon as the arsenic begins to operate as a poison, leave it off. When this effect is produced, the disease of the tongue generally gets well, but at any rate leave off the arsenic, and the poisoning will not go too far ; it will do no harm. If, after a time, you find that the disease is relieved, but not entirely cured, you may try another course of arsenic. Perhaps it may take a considerable time...
Página 457 - ... day after admission, and the urine was rendered of decided alkaline reaction in an average of five days after its commencement ; the longest period it resisted the alkaline reaction having been twenty days, and the shortest two. The secretions of the skin have not, I believe, been noticed to alter. In one case, attended with profuse perspiration, which yielded readily to treatment, the colored shirt the patient wore entirely lost its color; and it was suggested whether the same change did not...
Página 341 - I would even go further, and say that the combination in question is rather hostile than otherwise to the admission of phthisis; as, had tuberculous excavation formed at one side, the other lung would, in infinite probability, have been affected in an earlier stage. (/) Pneumonia, limited to the supra- and infra-clavicular region on one side, and not extending backwards, is commonly, but not always, tuberculous. (m...