The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly Journal Containing a Retrospective View of Every Discovery and Practical Improvement in the Medical Sciences ..., Volumes 21-22W. A. Townsend Publishing Company, 1850 - Medicine |
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Page 340 - The direction which is most favourable to endosmose through skins, is usually from the internal to the external surface, with the exception of the skin of the frog, in which endosmose, in the single case of water and alcohol, is promoted from the external to the internal surface.
Page 161 - The deviations from health in the heart are well worthy of observation; they have been so frequent as to show a most important and intimate connection with the disease of which we are treating; while, at the same time, there have been twenty-seven cases in which no disease could be detected, and six others which, from not having been noted, lead to the belief that no important deviation from the normal state existed. The obvious structural changes in the heart have consisted chiefly of hypertrophy,...
Page 228 - ... point into the groove behind, or on the bladder side of the stricture, — runs the knife forwards, so as to divide the whole of the thickened texture at the contracted part of the canal, and withdraws the director. Finally, a No. 7 or 8 silver catheter is introduced into the bladder, and retained by a suitable arrangement of tapes, with a plug to prevent trouble from the discharge of urine.
Page 162 - MEDICINE. either that the altered quality of the blood affords irregular and unwonted stimulus to the organ immediately ; or, that it so affects the minute and capillary circulation, as to render greater action necessary to force the blood through the distant subdivisions of the vascular system.
Page 58 - ... nucleated coat : in vessels, whether arteries or veins, whose walls consist of only a simple pellucid membrane bearing nuclei, the substance of this membrane is the first seat of the deposits. In some cases, the outer fibro-cellular coat of both arteries and veins appears to contain abundant fatty matter. But it is seldom that, in an advanced stage of the affection, any of the several coats of a bloodvessel can be assigned as its chief seat ; for even in large four-coated arteries they wholly...
Page 255 - In about twelve hours it will be seen whether the solution has been well applied. If any inflamed part be unaffected, the solution must be immediately rea'pplied.
Page 224 - ... itching or smarting so distressing to the patient ; to keep the surface clean, and prevent the accumulation of those scabs and crusts which in themselves often tend to keep up the disease. After a time, even the indurated parts begin to soften, the margins of the eruption lose their fiery red colour, merge into that of the healthy skin, and finally the whole surface assumes its normal character.
Page 128 - ... occur for the purposes of assimilation in the healthy economy may be shortly enumerated as follows : 1st. Introduction into the stomach and alimentary canal of organic matter. 2d. Its transformation by the process of digestion into albuminous and oily compounds : this process is chemical. 3d. The imbibition of these through the mucous membrane in a fluid state, and their union in the termini of the villi and lacteals to form elementary molecules : this process is physical.
Page 20 - ... of tubercle is below, that of cancer is above, this standard. Of the three kinds of exudation, tubercle is the lowest, and cancer the highest, in the scale.
Page 148 - ... allowed to steep for some time ; the water is then strained off completely and fresh water added, and the whole placed on the fire and allowed to boil slowly for some time until it becomes smooth ; the water is then pressed out and the bread on cooling forms a thick jelly, a portion of which is to be mixed with milk or water and sugar for use as it is wanted. The steeping in hot water and the subsequent boiling removes all the noxious matters used in making the bread, and it both agrees very...