The Eclectic Medical Journal, المجلد 20Wm. Phillips and Company, 1861 |
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الصفحة 175 - Another extraordinary fallacy is the dread of night air. What air can we breathe at night but night air ? The choice is between pure night air from without and foul night air from within. Most people prefer the latter. An unaccountable choice. What will they say if it is proved to be true that fully one-half of all the disease we suffer from is occasioned by people sleeping with their windows shut ? An open window most nights in the year can never hurt any one.
الصفحة 25 - ... of the needle itself, compresses the locality of the bleeding arterial orifice and tube, and then pushes on the needle with his right hand so as to make it re-enter the surface of the wound a little to the left side of the artery ; and lastly, by pressing the needle...
الصفحة 24 - ... point, against which the artery may be pinned and compressed by the acupressure needle; and 3d, in a few rare cases it may possibly be found in practice, that a second needle may require to bo introduced to serve as a point against which the desired compression is to be made.
الصفحة 319 - ... bleeding surface under its former place. This patch measured a line and a half in thickness, and was an inch in length by three quarters of an inch in breadth, Exudation had commenced to form on the uvula, when the application was made to the tonsil. It soon ceased to spread, and was but ephemeral.
الصفحة 23 - Dr. Simpson stated that he had tested, with perfect success, the effects of acupressure as a means of effectually closing arteries and stanching haemorrhage, first upon the lower animals, and lately in two or three operations on the human subject. The instruments which he proposed should be used for the purpose were very sharp-pointed slender needles or pins of passive or...
الصفحة 38 - ... restless at the return of the season for their migration. In these and the like facts there appear indications of a chronometry in the organic processes of warm-blooded animals, which corresponds with that of the seasons, but is essentially independent. And, if it be so, these might form a group of facts, in addition to those of the diurnal variations of the organic processes, in which vital changes are set to the same rules of time as changes of the surface of the earth, yet have their own proper...
الصفحة 119 - ... long as they liked, and some of them are living still. I see two men in the street, very often, who were both as good as dead in the opinion of all who saw them in their extremity. People will insist on living, sometimes, though manifestly moribund. In Dr. Elder's life of Kane you will find a case of this sort, told by Dr. Kane himself. The captain of a ship was dying of scurvy, but the crew mutinied, and he gave up dying for the present to take care of them. An old lady in this city, near her...
الصفحة 228 - ... fever, but thinks that they are useful in different stages or conditions of the disease. The action of veratria, he says, is more direct, causes no excitement, and proceeds especially from the spinal cord; that of quinine proceeds principally from the brain, and can not be manifested in a short time without previous excitement. Hence veratria is to be preferred in all febrile diseases which show a rapid and impetuous progress. In typhoid fever it should be employed at the commencement, more particularly...
الصفحة 223 - A Practical Treatise on the ¿Etiology, Pathology, and Treatment of the Congenital Malformations of the Rectum and Anus.
الصفحة 46 - Nervous system highly developed ; mind and body active ; figure slim ; adipose tissue small in quantity ; organization generally delicate; skin thin; complexion clear; superficial veins distinct; blush ready; eyes bright; pupils long; eyelashes long ; hair silken ; face oval, good-looking ; ends of long bones small, shafts thin and rigid; limbs straight.