The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences: Being a Digest of British and Continental Medicine, and of the Progess of Medicine and the Collateral Sciences, Volume 39

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J. Churchill, 1864

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Página 196 - 2. Produces laceration of the two internal coats of the artery. 3. Produces strangulation of the external coat. 4. Leads on to ulcération or molecular destruction of the external coat at the constricted part. 6. Causes mortification of the artery at the tied point, and usually also below it. 6. Produces consequently a dead, decomposing slough of each part ligatured.
Página 210 - Should suppuration occur, so as to occasion distressing dyspnoea, proceed to treat it in all respects as a case of empyema, introducing the trocar at the most dependent point, and taking special care to avoid the admission of air." Dr. Howard describes particularly three advantages which are gained by this perfect closure of the wound. 1st.
Página 64 - only to dust the inside of their stockings with sulphur. He immediately employed this simple remedy, the sulphur being the commercial flowers of brimstone, which contain some sulphurous acid. The curative effect was very well marked, for Dr. Renard walked in. the evening, then renewed the sulphur in the stockings before
Página 23 - 1st. That it is possible to reduce the mortality of typhus fever, while withholding a large proportion of the amount of alcoholic stimulants usually given. 2ndly. That this diminution of mortality may take place at all ages, but is most marked amongst the young. Srdly. That while at all ages the administration of stimulants ought to be
Página 333 - says:—" The idea that mercury is an antidote for the syphilitic poison, and the incalculable mischief it has caused, will constitute a curious episode in the history of medicine at some future day." Mr. Weeden Cooke and Mr. Spencer Wells both
Página 341 - 1st. During many years I have observed that the cases of heart disease most benefited by digitalis have been those in which the heart has been weak and dilated, and the pulse feeble and irregular. In these the pulse has become stronger
Página 102 - conditions of the cases in which they are found ; but they are a very notable sign, and are always associated, I think, with distressing and hardly manageable pain and disability. In well-marked cases, the fingers which are
Página 65 - its curative agency, Dr. Renard affirms that it has a beneficial effect upon the rheumatic pains of the tendons, and that this action is the more rapid and certain in proportion as the tendons are more superficial and the sulphur is kept more closely over the painful parts.
Página 3 - satisfied that neither typhus, nor enteric fever, nor dysentery, nor cholera, is to be encountered in or around them, whether in epidemic or non-epidemic seasons, more than in any other agricultural district of the neighbourhood.
Página 64 - in the hams, the heels, or the elbows. He felt, under the influence of the contact of the flowers of brimstone, the skin becoming hotter, slightly excited, and more disposed to sweating ; and as soon as this effect was produced the relief of the pain

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