Therapeutic Gazette

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G. S. Davis, 1896 - Drugs

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Page 445 - Edited with the assent of the author, by Hobart Amory Hare, MD, Professor of Therapeutics in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia.
Page 64 - SURGERY (THE INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF). A Systematic Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Surgery by Authors of various Nations.
Page 135 - A Yearly Digest of Scientific Progress and Authoritative Opinion in all branches of Medicine and Surgery, drawn from journals, monographs, and text-books of the leading American and Foreign authors and investigators. Collected and arranged, with critical editorial comments, by eminent American specialists and teachers, under the general editorial charge of GEORGE M.
Page 229 - ARTHUR VAN HARLINGEN, MD, Professor of Diseases of the Skin in the Philadelphia Polyclinic and College for Graduates in Medicine ; late Clinical Lecturer on Dermatology in Jefferson Medical College ; Dermatologist to the Howard Hospital.
Page 550 - The hemoglobin is also much less affected in the cases treated with antitoxin, thus confirming the statement as to the red corpuscles. 5. In healthy individuals injected with antitoxin, the red corpuscles show a very moderate reduction in number in about one-half the cases. The hemoglobin is correspondingly affected.
Page 550 - The red corpuscles of the blood in diphtheria undergo a diminution in number in cases of moderate severity and in severe cases. Regeneration is slow. 2. The leucocytes are increased in number in all but two classes of cases, exceptionally mild cases and exceptionally severe ones. As a rule, the amount of leucocytosis is directly proportionate to the degree of severity of the case. The...
Page 181 - ... that the substances be mixed in proportion to the emergency of the case and to the desire for little or much of the resulting compound. It is possible, by adding strong solutions or by pouring the powder of one into the solution of the other, to precipitate so much of the agglutinative composition as to make a gum that may be placed about the margin of the bleeding bone — for instance, in operations upon the cranium. Or a small piece of sponge or cotton sopped in this material may be forced...
Page 68 - AND URINARY DIAGNOSIS : A Manual for the Use of Physicians, Surgeons, and Students. By Charles W. Purdy...
Page 524 - Diarrhoea due to dietetic errors, and that which is common in adults and infants in summer, is well controlled by the administration of salol and bismuth or chalk. 2. Opium is rarely necessary where salol is used. 3. Salol controls the abdominal pain equally as well as opium. 4. It is perfectly safe, having no bad after-effects. 5. It is especially useful in the treatment of the diarrhoea of children.
Page 481 - ... in recovery. The procedure is as follows: The patient lies on his face, with his legs extended and resting easily one against the other. The most painful spot is selected, the region where the nerve proceeds from the large sciatic opening. On its trunk both thumbs are applied and it is compressed with the greatest possible force; at the same time slight lateral movements are made without changing the point of pressure or moderating its intensity. This takes from fifteen to twenty seconds, and...

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