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Page 3 - Instructions regarding new-born infants. — If the child's eyelids become red and swollen, or begin to run with matter, within a few days after birth, it is to be taken without a day's delay to a doctor. The disease is very dangerous, and if not at once treated may destroy the sight of both eyes.
Page 229 - ... immediately lie down with the head well raised, a hot bottle to the feet, and the body well covered with bedclothes. The bath probably acts by reducing the supply of blood to the whole of the brain, thus decreasing the functional activity equally throughout, and so placing it in the most favorable condition for complete functional rest, to the exclusion of the partial activity of certain centres which would induce dreaming. It has proved most useful for the relief of disturbed sleep in persons...
Page 230 - ... put a warm compress on the belly of a rabbit, and having removed the cranial walls, he noticed that an immediate and long-continued contraction of the meningeal vessels, with slowing of the cerebral movements, resulted. 4. The Wet Pack. — This is most useful in those cases of erethetic neurasthenia resulting from prolonged over-work, mental distress, morphine habit, chloral drinking, and chronic bhang poisoning. Any immediate beneficial results cannot be expected in these cases. The mechanical...
Page 156 - ... that in four-fifths of the cases the ulcer is situated upon a region bounded by the posterior wall, the lesser curvature and the pyloric region. The rest of the surface of the stomach—the fundus, the anterior surface, the greater curvature and the cardia—while it is much larger, appears to be affected in only one-fifth of the cases.
Page 82 - A stitch is secured firmly to the distal extremity of the sac. The end of the thread is then passed in a proximal direction several times through the sac, so that when pulled upon, the sac becomes folded upon itself like a curtain. The free end of this stitch, threaded on a...
Page 230 - Should the patient's surface temperature be subnormal (i, e., foot under 90" and palm less than 95°) moderately firm friction of the limbs and trunk should be employed to raise the superficial warmth. The bladder should be evacuated. The patient should leave the pack as soon as the previously retarded circulation begins to be accelerated. The night clothing should be well warmed and put on as quickly as possible. With all four the recumbent position must be maintained in a quiet, cool, well-ventilated...
Page 230 - Schuller put a warm compress on the belly of a rabbit, and having removed the cranial walls, he noticed that an immediate and long-continued contraction of the meningeal vessels, with slowing of the cerebral movements resulted. 4. The Wet Pack. — This is most useful in those cases of erethetic neurasthenia resulting from prolonged overwork, mental distress, morphine habit, chloral drinking, and chronic bhang poisoning. Any immediate beneficial results cannot be expected in these cases. The mechanical...
Page 229 - The manipulations should be directed not so much to the evacuation of the lymphatic and venous vessels of the parts dealt with, as to the rapid and sufficient stimulation of the sensory nerves with the dilatation of the arteries over as large an area as possible. This kneading no doubt acts in the same way as tapping the abdominal parietes of a frog, which Goltz showed greatly dilated the abdominal vessels and distended them with blood, whilst it reduced the frequency of the pulse. 3. Warm Abdominal...
Page 2 - I give her five minims of Fowler's solution of arsenious acid, in an ounce of water, thrice daily. In three days, the dose is increased to ten minims; in three days more, to fifteen; in three days more, to twenty; and so on, until she is taking thirtyfive minims of the solution, or a little more than a fourth of a grain of arsenious acid, thrice daily.
Page 275 - ... author, and performed on the same day. The patient was placed on her belly ; the incision was made midway between the last rib and the crest of the ilium, extending from close to the spinal column to a line cutting the anterior superior spinous process of the ilium perpendicularly.