The Dublin Journal of Medical Science, Volume 67

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Fannin & Company, 1879
 

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Página 27 - If a tumor be present and pressing on the bowel, it ought to be discoverable by palpation, under ether, through the abdominal walls, or by examination by the anus or vagina, great care being taken not to be misled by scybalous masses. 8. If repeated attacks of dangerous obstruction have occurred, with long intervals of perfect health', it may be suspected that the patient is the subject of a congenital diverticulum, or has bands of adhesion, or that some part of the intestine is pouched and liable...
Página 29 - Operations for the formation of an artificial anus in the right or left loin may be performed whenever the diagnosis of incurable obstructive disease in the lower bowel is made. 10. The operation for the formation of an artificial anus through the anterior part of the abdominal wall and into the small...
Página 287 - Turning the blankets down below the pelvis, the physician now takes a large pitcher of water, from 75° to 80°, and pours it gently over the sheet. This it saturates, and then, percolating the network, it is caught by the india-rubber apron beneath, and, running down the gutter formed by this, is received in a tub placed at its extremity for that purpose. Water at...
Página 280 - Roman numerals, and assures the physician of more competent service because from more educated pharmacists, such being always the first to adopt it. It is decimal, and a perpendicular line instead of the decimal points obviates any possibility of error from this source. It is allied to the change already made by Americans from pounds, shillings and pence to dollars and cents. Because of its delicacy and accuracy for the chemist and the pharmacist ; and here the beauty of the system is especially...
Página 44 - Our established rule is that so long as nature is able to effect its purpose without prejudice to the constitution of the patient, danger to the soft parts, or the life of the child, we are in duty bound to allow the...
Página 112 - It is then spread pretty thickly on a bit of oiled silk or diachylon plaster, and applied directly to the boil. It is rarely necessary to renew the dressing more than once in twenty-four hours. As a rule, two or three dressings are enough to make the furuncle abort, no matter what be the period of its evolution.
Página 27 - Intussusception cases may be known by the frequent straining, the passage of blood and mucus, the incompleteness of the constipation, and the discovery of a sausage-like tumor, either by examination per anum or through the abdominal walls.
Página 116 - ... become a nidus in which the bacteria are easily and quickly developed, so that from being few and innocuous in the system, they occur in myriads.
Página 17 - ... formed from the germinal spot. (4) Entrance of one end of the spindle into a protoplasmic prominence at the surface of the egg. (5) Division of the spindle into two halves, one remaining in the egg, the other in the prominence. The prominence becomes at the same time nearly constricted off from the egg as a polar cell.
Página 118 - No. 338. higher than that of males, the reverse applies to " croup," a term under which a very large proportion of the cases of diphtheria are returned. Next in importance to age as a predisposing cause would seem to come family susceptibility} The liability of diphtheria to attack the members of certain families is well proved. Sir William Jenner2 lays great stress upon family constitution as being "one of the most important elements favouring the development of the disease and determining its progress.

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