The Practice of Medicine, Volume 1Henry Renshaw, 1869 - Medicine |
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acid action acute affected albumen albuminuria ammonia anæmia animal appears arteries attack become bleeding blood body brain cancer capillaries cause cavity cells cerebral cerebral hæmorrhage chronic cicatrix circulation clot cod liver oil cold colour coma commencement congestion corpuscles cure death degeneration delirium diarrhoea diet discharge disease disorder doses dropsy dyspnoea effusion eruption erysipelas especially excess fatal fatty favourable fever fibrin fluid frequently glanders glands goitre gout hæmorrhage headache healthy heart increased inflammation inoculation instances iodide irritability kidneys liver London lungs lymphatic matter membranes milk morbid mucous nervous nourishing occasionally occurs organs pain patient perhaps pia mater poison potash practitioner probably produced prove pulmonary pulse quantity quinine remedies renal result rheumatism scirrhus scurvy serum skin small-pox soda sometimes substance suffering suppuration symptoms syphilis tion tissue treatment tubercle tubercular tumours typhus ulceration urea uric acid urine vaccination veins vessels vomiting
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Page 493 - Skrine the least soil of breath on the bright mirror he held to his mouth ; then each of us, by turns, examined his arm, heart, and breath, but could not, by the nicest scrutiny, discover the least symptom of life in him.
Page 268 - Every year thousands undergo this operation; and the French ambassador says pleasantly, that they take the small-pox here by way of diversion, as they take the waters in other countries. There is no example of any one that has died in it; and you may believe I am very well satisfied of the safety of this experiment, since I intend to try it on my dear little son.
Page 449 - involuntary tremulous motion, with lessened muscular power in parts not in action, and even when supported; with a propensity to bend the trunk forwards, and to pass from a walking to a running pace ; the senses and intellect being uninjured.
Page 122 - I esteem it the office of a physician not only to restore health, but to mitigate pain and dolors ; and not only when such mitigation may conduce to recovery, but when it may serve to make a fair and easy passage...
Page 66 - And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake. [7] And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
Page 542 - ... upper part of the windpipe, and partial insensibility, the presumption will be strong that the substance, whatever it may have been, has slipped into the air-passages, and is the immediate and only cause of the suffering which the surgeon has been sent for to relieve. The presumption will be converted almost into positive certainty if the person was just previously in the enjoyment of good health...
Page 581 - ... in any convenient situation. A firm long iron probe, somewhat bent, is then passed through the opening, and directed towards the lower and back part of the cavity — the lower the better. If the end of the probe be made to press against the sides of the thoracic walls, it can be felt from the outside through the intercostal spaces, though, perhaps, obscurely, owing to the thickness and toughness of the false membrane within. The lowest and most appropriate site in which the probe can be felt...
Page 138 - ... assimilation in the healthy economy may be shortly enumerated as follows : 1st. Introduction into the stomach and alimentary canal of organic matter. 2d. Its transformation by the process of digestion into albuminous and oily compounds : this process is chemical.
Page 493 - This continued about half an hour, by nine o'clock in the morning, in autumn. As we were going away, we observed some motion about the body, and upon examination, found his pulse and the motion of his heart gradually returning : he began to breathe gently and speak softly...
Page 492 - ... milk daily, even in the camp : and for common drink Bristol water, which, the summer before his death, he had drunk on the spot. But his illness increasing, and his strength decaying, he came from Bristol to Bath in a litter, in autumn, and lay at the Bell Inn. Dr. Baynard...