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Page 65
... suffering from this affection , he sud- denly grew comatose , cold , and almost pulseless , and his breathing became so slow that he inspired only four or five times in a minute . In this state he lay for twenty - four hours , and then ...
... suffering from this affection , he sud- denly grew comatose , cold , and almost pulseless , and his breathing became so slow that he inspired only four or five times in a minute . In this state he lay for twenty - four hours , and then ...
Page 85
... suffering , that those persons who had seen it but a short time before would now scarcely recognise it . The head often becomes somewhat retracted , and the child bores with the occiput in the pillow ; the eyelids are wide open , and ...
... suffering , that those persons who had seen it but a short time before would now scarcely recognise it . The head often becomes somewhat retracted , and the child bores with the occiput in the pillow ; the eyelids are wide open , and ...
Page 90
... suffering , and if the head suffer in such a patient , it is in ninety - nine cases out of a hundred from the approach of hydroce- phalus . Do not content yourselves with seeing your patient once a day ; visit him at least morning and ...
... suffering , and if the head suffer in such a patient , it is in ninety - nine cases out of a hundred from the approach of hydroce- phalus . Do not content yourselves with seeing your patient once a day ; visit him at least morning and ...
Page 105
... suffering . But he is not able to bear any more active treatment , and , indeed , you have already emptied your quiver of such weapons . In these circumstances I have sometimes given a full dose of morphia , and have continued it every ...
... suffering . But he is not able to bear any more active treatment , and , indeed , you have already emptied your quiver of such weapons . In these circumstances I have sometimes given a full dose of morphia , and have continued it every ...
Page 106
... suffering of patients whose disease it certainly failed to arrest . Need I say that you must not think of treating a case of hydro- cephalus throughout just in the same way as you did at its com- mencement ? There is , if the disease do ...
... suffering of patients whose disease it certainly failed to arrest . Need I say that you must not think of treating a case of hydro- cephalus throughout just in the same way as you did at its com- mencement ? There is , if the disease do ...
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abdomen adult affection appearance arachnoid attack attended auscultation become blood bowels brain breathing bronchi bronchial bronchitis calomel catarrh cause cerebral character chest child childhood chorea coma condition congestion considerable constipated continued convulsions cord cough course croup death degree dentition depletion deposit diarrhoea diphtheria disease disorder disturbance doses drowsiness dura mater dyspnoea early effusion epilepsy excited existed extreme false membrane fatal fever fluid frequent glands glottis hæmorrhage head hooping-cough hydrocephalus increase infant inflammation instances intestines irritation larynx less lungs measles mischief months morbid mucous mucous membrane nature nervous system notice observed occasionally occur organs pain paroxysms patient peculiar phthisis pia mater pleurisy pneumonia present pulse quantity remedies respiration result scarlatina scarlet fever seems seldom severe side skin slight softening sometimes spinal stage stomach substance suffering supervene surface symptoms takes place tion tracheotomy treatment tubercle tubercular ulceration urine usually ventricles vomiting weeks
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