The Retrospect of Medicine, Volume 27Simpkin, Marshall & Company, 1853 - Medicine |
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acid action acute affection albumen appears applied artery attack become blood body bone bowels cancer carbon cause cavity cells character chloroform chronic circulation coagulation condition containing convulsions corpuscles cure cysts death deposit diarrhoea disease doses epithelial epithelium erysipelas examination exudation fatty favourable fibrine fibrous tumours fluid frequently Gazette gland granular hemorrhage Hospital hysterical inch incision increased inflammation inflammatory instances intestinal irritation joint kidney labour laryngismus larynx less ligature limb lungs matter morbid mucous membrane muscles muscular nature observed occur operation organ pain passed pathology patient phthisis portion potash present produced pulse quantity relapsing fever remedy removed renal result rheumatism scarlet fever secretion skin splint stomach structure substance suffered surface surgeon symptoms tion tissue trachea tracheotomy treatment tubercle tubercular tuberculosis tubes tumours typhoid fever typhus typhus fever ulceration urine usually uterine uterus vascular vein vessels
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Page 205 - Eustachian tubes, is, that the function of hearing is best carried on while the tympanum is a closed cavity, and that the analogy usually cited as existing between the ordinary musical instrument the drum and the tympanum, to the effect that in each it is requisite for the air within to communicate freely with the outer air, is not correct. On the contrary, the author shows that no displacement of the air is requisite for the propagation of sonorous undulations, and that, were the Eustachian...
Page 182 - ... lime, proved to be far less soluble, usually not more than half a grain an hour, and at most 2 grains being dissolved. At the conclusion of the reading of the paper, the author stated that he had been engaged in making further experiments with a solution of nitrate of potash containing only 10 grains to the ounce ; and he exhibited some large uric acid and phosphatic calculi, which had been partially dissolved by the decomposition of this solution at the surface of the calculi. He also showed...
Page 371 - ... On the outer surface of the new-formed cysts, each of which would, as it were, repeat the chorion and surpass its powers, a new vegetation of villi ¡sprouts out, of the same structure as the proper villi of the chorion. In these begins again a similar development of cysts; and so on, ad inßnitum.
Page 266 - Ieucorrboea, no benefit could result unless the injection passed into the cervix. He mentioned the methods he adopted to secure this result, and concluded by expressing a hope that the prosecution of these researches might prove serviceable, by rendering a troublesome class of maladies more intelligible than they had hitherto been, and by tending to correct errors of practice, and to indicate the just value of constitutional and topical remedies.
Page 249 - ... experienced under these circumstances is evident. The cavity of the non-pregnant healthy uterus not containing more than about ten or eleven drops of fluid, as soon as the catamenial secretion commences from the lining membrane of the uterine cavity, unless the blood find a free exit through the os internum and the cavity of the cervix, it distends the uterus, and gives rise to great pain. The obstruction may merely be at the os internum, spasmodically contracted ; in which case, as soon as it...
Page 205 - Eustachian tubes constantly open, these undulations would extend into the cavity of the fauces, there to be absorbed by the thick and soft mucous membrane, instead of being confined to the tympanic cavity, the walls of which are so peculiarly well adapted to the production of resonance, in order that they shall be concentrated upon the labyrinth.
Page 407 - In the history of these unhappy persons — these lost and ruined minds — we read, in many cases, recorded the sad, melancholy, and lamentable results of either a total neglect of all efficient, curative treatment at a period when it might have arrested the onward advance of the cerebral mischief, and maintained reason upon her seat ; or of the use of injudicious and unjustifiable measures of treatment under mistaken notions of the nature and pathology of the disease.
Page 243 - ... 1. The cysts forming an ovarian dropsy, occasionally rupture, first, from inflammatory effusion into and distension of their cavities ; or, secondly, the contents of the cysts being only the common bland secretion of such cysts, and unmixed with any inflammatory matter, they may rupture from mere over-dilatation and gradual attenuation of their coats, or under sudden mechanical pressure and injury. 2. When a cyst ruptures from the effects of inflammation, or contains within it at the time of...
Page 410 - ... tis much that this contentious storm Invades us to the skin: so 'tis to thee; But where the greater malady is fix'd, The lesser is scarce felt. Thou'dst shun a bear; But if thy flight lay toward the roaring sea, Thou'dst meet the bear i
Page 244 - ... and comparative cure of it may be the consequence. Lastly, let me add that, as in many cases and points the surgery of art is an imitation of the surgery of nature, possibly the artificial repetition and establishment of the above modes of relief, if they could be imitated safely and certainly, may yet be found capable of temporarily arresting, if not curing, ovarian dropsies in some appropriate cases ; and more particularly in instances in which the great bulk of the tumour is formed by one...