A Treatise on the practice of medicine v.1, Volume 1Lippincott, Grambo, and Company, 1855 |
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... former treating of what is common to diseases in general , or to a number of them , the latter of what is peculiar to individual diseases . The second great department of the Practice , or that which concerns the treatment of diseases ...
... former treating of what is common to diseases in general , or to a number of them , the latter of what is peculiar to individual diseases . The second great department of the Practice , or that which concerns the treatment of diseases ...
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... former and the higher grades of the latter are very clearly marked ; but they run together in the interval . They are merely opposite extremes of the same line of excitation . That morbid condition in which the vital actions are reduced ...
... former and the higher grades of the latter are very clearly marked ; but they run together in the interval . They are merely opposite extremes of the same line of excitation . That morbid condition in which the vital actions are reduced ...
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... former supply material and requisite influence . Now it is possible that the relation between the irritant cause and these several parts may be such , that the irritation may be primarily seated in one , to the exclusion of the others ...
... former supply material and requisite influence . Now it is possible that the relation between the irritant cause and these several parts may be such , that the irritation may be primarily seated in one , to the exclusion of the others ...
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... former situation , after the subsidence of the irritation , a state of depression usually occurs , in which the functions are performed more feebly , or are for a time suspended . The fatigued organ requires a period of rest before it ...
... former situation , after the subsidence of the irritation , a state of depression usually occurs , in which the functions are performed more feebly , or are for a time suspended . The fatigued organ requires a period of rest before it ...
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... former condition when taken from scrofulous abscesses , and the latter after exposure to the air . It is slow to putrefy . Hunter found it to differ from all other animal fluids which he examined , in being coagulated by muriate of ...
... former condition when taken from scrofulous abscesses , and the latter after exposure to the air . It is slow to putrefy . Hunter found it to differ from all other animal fluids which he examined , in being coagulated by muriate of ...
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acid action acute affected appears applied attack attended become bilious fever blood body bowels brain buffy coat calomel cancer capillaries cause character chronic circulation circumstances coagulable cold colour commencement complaint condition congestion consequence constitution death debility degree depression derangement diarrhoea diminished disease disorder dose employed enteric fever epidemic epigastrium eruption erysipelas especially excessive excitement existence exudation fatal fauces favourable febrile feeble fibrin fluid frequently functions gangrene glands gout granules heat increased inflammation inflammatory influence instances intermittent irritation less liquid liver lungs malignant matter measles miasmatic morbid mucous membrane nature nervous observed occasionally occur ordinary organs pain paroxysm patient peculiar phenomena probably produce prostration pulse quinia red corpuscles remedy result rheumatism secretion serous serous membranes skin smallpox sometimes stage stimulant stomach structure suppuration surface symptoms tendency tion tissue tongue tubercle tumours tympanitic typhus ulceration unfrequently usually vaccination vessels violent vital vomiting yellow fever
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Page 478 - As seen in the mouth, the eruption at first consists of whitish or yellowish blisters varying in size from that of a mustard seed to that of a bean.
Page 245 - The exception respecting the employment of children, young persons, and women between the hours of eight in the morning and eight in the evening...
Page 543 - The philosophy of this bath is thus explained : — The soles of the feet and the palms of the hands are extremely sensitive, having abundance of nerves, as we find if we tickle them. If the feet are put often into hot water, they will become habitually cold, and make one more or less delicate and nervous. On the other hand, by rubbing the feet often in cold water, they will become permanently warm. A...
Page 418 - ... maligna, a name which is applied to certain cases of extreme violence, in which the system is at once overwhelmed by the force of the disease, or in which the symptoms evince an extraordinary degree of weakness and want of vital power. The disease begins with shivering, lassitude, headache, a frequent pulse, a hot dry skin, a flushed face, thirst, loss of appetite, and a furred tongue. Shortly after the appearance of the febrile symptoms, the throat begins to feel irritable...
Page 411 - In mild forms of the disease nothing more is requisite than to keep the patient on a low diet, attend to the state of the bowels, and prevent exposure to cold, which is best accomplished by keeping him in bed with the ordinary warmth to which he is accustomed in health. If the chest symptoms become urgent, they must be treated according to their nature.
Page 101 - A disease, in my opinion, how prejudicial soever its causes may be to the body, is no more than a vigorous effort of Nature to throw off the morbific matter, and thus recover the patient.
Page 512 - Wood, * offers every possible variety in degree, character, and duration. The pain runs through all the grades which intervene between a slight sensation of uneasiness and unsupportable agony. It may be dull, aching, heavy, sharp, pungent, throbbing, grinding, or lancinating. It may be continued or paroxysmal, remittent or intermittent, and regular or irregular in its recurrence. It may come in flashes, and as suddenly disappear ; or may continue a long time with little variation.
Page 428 - 12 to 18 inches in length, and from a quarter of an inch to an inch " or more in diameter. Combined with the usual sweetness of " liquurice root, this variety has a feebly bitter taste.
Page 590 - Chronic Enteritis," we find that " occasionally false membranes are discharged, and, in some rare instances, tubes of considerable length, obviously the result of a plastic inflammation, throwing out coagulable lymph upon the surface of the mucous membrane." Dr. Gumming, of Edinburgh, has given an account of a peculiar variety of pseudo-membranous inflammation of the bowels (quoted by Wood). In this variety Dr. Simpson used Arsenic, a remedy homoeopathic to the disease ; and Dr. Gumming used tar...
Page 513 - ... mental inquietude, and by the contact of acids or other irritant substances. Neuralgic toothache sometimes persists, with intervals of exemption, for a great length of time. The diagnosis is occasionally difficult. When, however, it occurs in sound teeth, is paroxysmal in its character, is attended with little or no swelling of the external parts, occupies a considerable portion of the jaw, and especially when it alternates or is associated with pain of the same character in other parts of the...