The Medical Call: A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Wants of the Busy Doctor, Bände 1-2

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1881
 

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Seite 46 - And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal. And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.
Seite 35 - Of these pulverized substances, you take one grain ; mercury may be used in the liquid state ; of petroleum, you take one drop instead of one grain. Pour this grain into an unglazed porcelain mortar. Then you take thirty-three grains of Sugar of Milk, and mix them with the drug by triturating the mass with some force for about six minutes by means of a porcelain pestle ; before you triturate, stir the mass for a little while with a spatula. Having...
Seite 24 - Conferring exclusive privileges upon bodies of physicians, and forbidding men of equal talents and knowledge under severe penalties from practicing medicine within certain districts of cities and countries, are inquisitions, however sanctioned by ancient charters and names, serving as the Bastiles of our science.
Seite 52 - ... in similar localities, with opportunities for no larger experience, ordinarily possess ; and he was not bound to possess that high degree of art and skill possessed by eminent surgeons practising in large cities, and making a specialty of the practice of surgery.
Seite 35 - In order to prepare the degree -nnjOTj, you take one grain of the degree TTT, and add to it thirty-three grains of Sugar of Milk. Stir up this mass for a moment with the spatula. Then triturate it for six minutes, stir it up for four minutes, triturate again for six minutes, and then stir up again for four.
Seite 108 - A resident of the place stated that, on testing a portion of the ice the previous winter, he had experienced nausea and distress for the remainder of the day. Two gentlemen having taken a quantity of ice with them upon an excursion, during which they drank the water formed from it, were made violently ill. Both the house in which the ice was stored and the water from the melted ice gave off a decidedly disagreeable, or even ofteneive, odour.
Seite 119 - ... absorbed. It works best in cases where the temperature is above normal, from the fact that it must be given cold. Of course many children to whom it has been given have died, but I can say for it that it has never failed me in any case of cholera infantum, except some in whom well-marked brain symptoms had existed before it was administered, to such a degree as to preclude the possibility of a recovery. Even in these cases it is an advantage, for we are giving a food which will not be vomited,...
Seite 88 - OHIO (secretary of committee on provings), for circulars containing further information. It is hoped that members of our school who desire a more accurate materia medica, and who are anxious for reprovings conducted upon scientific principles (see circular), will respond to this call. All work presented will be freely made the property of the profession, or promptly returned to the author. Any one of three drugs may be selected.
Seite 55 - I have seldom prescribed more than a teaspoonful mixed with a wineglassful of water twice a day. In several cases of bronchitis, with profuse expectoration, I have witnessed remarkable benefit after a very brief use of the remedy, evinced by a rapid diminution of the discharge, and also by a corresponding improvement in the general condition of the patient.
Seite 6 - The disease extends into the throat (and bronchia), producing a croupy cough, in paroxysms, with expectoration of viscid, tough mucus, which may be drawn out into long strings ; tough and stringy discharge from the nostrils ; pain in the left ear ; swelling of the parotid and submaxillary glands ; eruption upon the skin, which looks like that of measles ; the tongue is red, raw, and shining.

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