Midland Medical Miscellany and Provincial Medical Journal, 1. köide1882 |
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Page 109 - ... being completely exposed, a semicircular line is drawn, with pen and ink, exactly in the fold which is created by the fall of the organ upon the thorax. This line encircles the lower half of the breast at its junction with the trunk. As soon as it has dried the patient is...
Page 76 - Kaolin, 4 parts ; glycerine, 3 parts ; acetic acid, 2, parts, with or without the addition of a small quantity of some ethereal oil. With this pomade he covers the parts affected in the evening, and if need be, during the day. After several days all the comedones can be easily expressed, most of them even come out by washing the parts with pumicestone soap.
Page 89 - MD, Professor of the Practice of Physic in the University of Edinburgh. HEAT. By TS TRAILL, MD, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence in the University of Edinburgh. HELMINTHOLOGY. By JAMES WILSON, FRSE HEMP. By TC ARCHER, Author of "Popular Economic Botany,
Page 145 - In conclusion, he summarizes thus: 1. In cases of valvular stenosis, if dyspnoea, or pain, or urgent symptoms be present, bleeding is generally useful ; that it appears to be better to bleed often, if necessary, but to take only a small quantity each time, and this by means of leeches or the cupping glass, direct from the cardiac region. 2. In cases of valvular incompetency, if urgent...
Page 112 - Luckless is he, whom hard fates urge on To practise as a country surgeon — To drag a heavy galling chain, The slave of all for paltry gain — To ride regardless of all weather, Through frost, and snow, and hail together — To smile and bow when sick and tired, Consider'd as a servant hired.
Page 10 - ... worth. It is given indiscriminately to young and old, for days or even weeks, for the public are more given to take hold of a remedy than to heed warnings.
Page 163 - This box is divided into two compartments, the lower one being used as a reservoir for hot water, while the infant is placed in the upper one, which is well stuffed at the sides and fitted with a sliding glass cover. The temperature is maintained at 86 degrees, Fahrenheit, and M.
Page 193 - ... in the aged. The burning pain produced is allayed by cold applications ; and if absorption has not become complete in eight or ten days, the injection, in a smaller dose, is repeated.
Page 190 - Saturate a soft piece of fabric with alcohol, lay it over the burn, then cover it with cotton or finely picked oakum. This is the most cleanly dressing that can be adopted. It may be thought that alcohol applied to a burn will produce more pain; but try it, and you will be agreeably surprised to observe how quickly it will allay the pain; subsequently disturb the...
Page 166 - When a foreign body is lodged either in the larynx, trachea, or bronchia, the use of emetics, errhines, or similar means should not be employed, as they increase the sufferings of the patient, and do not increase his chances of recovery. 2. Inversion of the body and succussion are dangerous, and should not be practised unless the windpipe has been previously opened.