Lectures to General Practitioners on the Diseases of the Stomach and Intestines: With an Account of Their Relations to Other Diseases and of the Most Recent Methods Applicable to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Them in General; Also "The Gastro-intestinal Clinic," in which All Such Diseases are Separately Considered

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E.B. Treat, 1904 - Intestines - 1021 pages
 

Contents

A Combination of External MethodsExperiments with Dif
103
TEST MEALS AND PREPARATIONS
117
LECTURE IX
126
Tests for Lactic AcidTests for the Other Organic Acids
132
THE URINE IN GASTROINTESTINAL DIS
143
TESTS FOR URIC
153
The Feces in HealthThe Microscopic ExaminationThe
162
A SYMPTOMATIC GUIDE TO DIAGNOSIS
179
PERSONAL HYGIENE
191
Personal Hygiene The Hygiene of Eating and Drinking
198
GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS CONCERNING
204
THE DIET IN IRRITATIVE AND ATONIC
216
Classification of Diseases with Regard to Dietetic Treatment
222
THE AUTHORS AND OTHER PROGRESSIVE
234
Classes of Cases for which Specified Diets are Indicated
244
METHODS OF TREATMENT IN GASTRO
253
VIBRATION MANUAL THERAPY
256
THE REMEDIAL VALUE OF ACTIVE EXER
259
PASSIVE EXERCISES INCLUDING MASSAGE
269
ELECTRICITY GALVANIC FARADIC
278
VARIOUS FORMS OF ELECTRIC AND
286
Tests for Uric AcidFolinHopkins Method of Determining
288
OTHER DIRECT METHODS OF TREAT
296
Carbon Dioxide in Diseases of the Rectum and ColonTurcks
302
The Advantages Claimed for Mechanical VibrationManual
305
INTRAGASTRIC METHODS OF TREATMENT
312
INTRAGASTRIC METHODS CONTINUED
321
As Simple as LavageIntragastric ElectrodesThe Authors
329
DIGESTANTS ALKALIES AND NATURAL
345
TONICS STIMULANTS AND SEDATIVES
355
ANTISEPtics Astringents and Laxa
361
INTRODUCTORYTHE CLASSIFICATION
371
GASTRIC ATONY OR MYASTHENIA GAS
378
DILATATION OF THE STOMACH DI
386
Acute GastrectasisThe Etiology of Chronic Gastrectasis
394
Differential Diagnosis
402
Prognosis TreatmentDilatation from Pyloric SpasmIn
413
SPLANCHNOPTOSIS OR DOWNWARD
415
Movable KidneyNephroptosisEtiologySymptomatology
425

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Page 274 - Acute inflammation of any abdominal or pelvic organ. "4. Hyperchlorhydria, acid gastritis, or, indeed, any of the forms of excessive secretion of the gastric juice. "5. Prolapsed kidneys which are sensitive to palpation. "6. Aneurism of any of the abdominal or thoracic arteries. "7. During the menstrual period, when the flow is excessive or when there is a tendency to menorrhagia. "8. In fatty degeneration or marked dilatation of the heart and advanced phthisis, especially with a tendency to hemoptysis,...
Page 831 - ... of other parts of the bowel and attention is attracted to this region. If there are external evidences of eye-strain, these cases are referred to the ophthalmologist, along with my cases of nervous 'dyspepsia' and 'gastric neuralgia,' and some of the most brilliant results that I have observed in any kind of medical practice have come out of the treatment that was instituted.
Page 1 - DISEASES OF THE STOMACH AND INTESTINES. With an account of their relations to other diseases and of the most recent methods applicable to the diagnosis and treatment of them in general ; also "The Gastro-Intestinal Clinic," in which all such diseases are separately considered.
Page 273 - ... 1. Chronic gastritis in all its forms excepting those accompanied by hyperchlorhydria. 2. Anacidity or subacidity, except when dependent upon acute gastritis or carcinoma. 3. Gastrectasia, not dependent on cancer. 4. Atonic conditions of the stomach walls, whether progressed to the stage of dilatation or not. 5. Displacements of the various abdominal organs, including a: Gastroptosis. « . b : Nephroptosis, except in cases where the displaced kidney has become excessively tender on pressure....
Page 274 - Chronic intestinal catarrh, not complicated by deep ulceration. 7. Dilatation of the intestines. 8. Constipation from unknown causes. In many such cases massage often succeeds. 9. In a group of symptoms which comprise especially tenderness over a region three or four inches in diameter including the umbilicus as its center and a marked pulsation of the abdominal aorta in the entire epigastric region. These symptoms have been assumed, with how much of truth I ain not prepared to say, to denote congestion...
Page 274 - Ulceration in any part of the stomach or intestines; (2) cancer of any of the abdominal organs; {3) acute inflammation in any part of the gastro-intestinal tract ; (4) hyperchlorhydria ; (5) prolapsed kidneys which are acutely sensitive to palpation ; (6) aneurism of any of the abdominal or thoracic arteries ; (7) during the menstrual period, when the flow is excessive, or when there is a tendency to menorrhagia. In...
Page 1 - Professor of Diseases of the Gastrointestinal Tract, Hygiene and Climatology in the Department of Medicine of Temple College, Philadelphia; Attending Physician to the Samaritan Hospital; Member of the American Medical Association, American Climatological Association, American Academy of Medicine, American Electro-Therapeutic Association; Foreign Member of the French Societe d'Electrotherapie, etc.
Page 750 - The most convenient form of rectal feeding consists in the use of one ounce of one of the various concentrated liquid predigested foods in the market, dissolved in three ounces of warm normal salt solution, introduced slowly through a soft catheter inserted into the rectum a distance of two or three inches.
Page 418 - Such, however, is the case; and this condition more than any other cause is responsible for the constipation, backache, debility, biliousness, early loss of complexion, headache, and that long list of ailments of which so many women in all civilized countries are victims.
Page 297 - ... of crystallized tartaric acid (if pulverized acid is used the development of the gas goes on too rapidly) are added. The larger these crystals are, the better.

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