The Retrospect of Medicine: Being a Half-yearly Journal, Containing a Retrospective View of Every Discovery and Practical Improvement in the Medical Sciences, Volume 22Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1851 - Medicine |
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Page 38 - Between the brain and the muscles there is a circle of nerves; one nerve conveys the influence from the brain to the muscle, another gives the sense of the condition of the muscle to the brain.
Page 378 - ... exists, I believe, on record, a series of facts amply sufficient to prove this at least, that patients during labour have been and may be locally inoculated with a materies morbi capable of exciting puerperal fever; that this materies morbi is liable to be inoculated into the dilated and abraded lining membrane of the maternal passages during delivery, by the fingers of the attendant; that thus in transferring it from one patient to another, the fingers of the attendant act, as it were, like...
Page 131 - The short, sharp sound ; and 4th. A longer pause, — all which correspond with one pulsation. In figures, the duration of these sounds and pauses by some have been represented thus — the first sound occupies a third, the short pause a sixth, the second sound a sixth, and the long pause a third. Others have divided the whole period into four parts ; of which the two first are occupied by the first sound, the third by the second sound, and the fourth by the pause. The duration as well as the loudness...
Page 220 - 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 324 - The patient is placed on a chair, and covered with an oilcloth lined with flannel, which is supported by a proper framework. Under the chair are placed a copper bath containing water, and a...
Page 367 - ... either as tubercles, varying from the size of a pin's head to that of a large pea, isolated or confluent ; or, secondly, as yellowish patches of irregular outline, slightly elevated, and with but little hardness.
Page 203 - ... and nutritious elements required, viz., albumen, gluten, starch, sugar, fat, and the phosphates of lime and magnesia. This food is more particularly adapted for children who have been suckled and are being weaned ; for those who are being brought up by hand the following preparation is deemed more advisable : an ounce of...
Page 131 - The first of these sounds which is dull, deep, and more prolonged than the second, coincides with the shock of the apex of the heart against the thorax, and immediately precedes the radial pulse; it has its maximum intensity over the apex of the heart, — below and somewhat to the outside of the nipple.
Page 3 - ... products can hardly be retained for any time within the body, much less out of it, without undergoing a foetid decomposition, which sufficiently stamps them with an excrementitious character. Bowels, skin, kidney, tonsils, are the favourite resorts of the several fever-poisons, just as they are the surfaces by which naturally the organic waste of the several tissues is eliminated.
Page 324 - The patient is thus exposed to the influence of three agents, heated air, common steam, and the vapour of mercury, which is thus applied to the whole surface of the body in a moist state. After the patient has remained in the bath from five to ten minutes perspiration generally commences, and by the end of twenty or thirty minutes, beyond which I do not prolong the bath, it is generally excessive. The lamps are now removed, and the temperature gradually allowed to sink; when the patient has become...