An Epitome of the American eclectic practice of medicine, surgery, obstetrics, diseases of women and children, materia medica and pharmacyGladding, 1859 - 716 pages |
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Page 483 - Repeat these movements deliberately and perseveringly fifteen times only in a minute. (When the patient lies on the thorax, this cavity is compressed by the weight of the body, and expiration takes place. When he is turned on the side, this pressure is removed, and inspiration occurs.)
Page 483 - Treat the patient instantly on the spot, in the open air, freely exposing the face, neck, and chest to the breeze, except in severe weather.
Page 127 - The heavier part of this downy growth is shed before birth, but with the exception of the palms of the hands, and the soles of the feet, the body always retains a covering of hair.
Page 483 - Rub the limbs upward, with firm pressure and with energy. (The object being to aid the return of venous blood to the heart...
Page 483 - If not successful, lose no time, but, to imitate respiration, place the patient on his face, and turn the body gently but completely on the side, and a little beyond, then, again, on the face, and so on alternately. Repeat these movements deliberately and perseveringly fifteen times only in a minute.
Page 29 - ... else you like but bleed me you shall not. I have had several inflammatory fevers in my life, and at an age when more robust and plethoric: yet I got through them without bleeding. This time, also, will I take my chance.
Page 401 - ... the iron in the corpuscles, while Mulder refers it entirely to the oxidation of protein-compounds. Liebig asserts that the corpuscles of arterial blood contain peroxide of iron ; that, in their passage through the capillaries, they lose a portion of their oxygen and combine with carbonic acid, so that, in the venous system, they no longer contain peroxide, but carbonate of the protoxide of iron. When they reach the lungs, an exchange takes place between the carbonic acid of the blood and the...
Page 484 - Rub the body briskly till it is dry and warm, then dash cold water upon it, and repeat the rubbing. . Avoid the immediate removal of the patient, as it involves a dangerous loss of time ; also, the use of bellows, or any forcing instrument ; also, the warm bath, and all rough treatment. The Care of the Sick-room upper floors — in the case of some "catching
Page 118 - ... to leave only a limited central portion of their cavities unoccupied, it is obvious that when they are divided transversely, the following appearances will be observed : — 1st. A bronchial tube will resemble a tubercle having a central depression or soft central point in consequence of the centre of the bronchus not being, or never having been occupied by the tuberculous matter, and of its containing at the same time a small quantity of mucus or other secreted fluids :— 2nd.
Page 117 - In this altered state. the little bodies are now generally denominated crude tubercles. In the aggregated granules, the change commences at several points, each probably answering to a distinct granule ; and considerable masses of yellow opaque matter result from the extension and ultimate coalescence of these central spots. The same transformation takes place in the infiltrated translucent matter, beginning in like manner with isolated opaque spots, and spreading until it involves the whole deposit,...