The Practitioner's manual, a condensed system of medical diagnosis and treatment

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Wood, 1899 - 851 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 239 - ... matzoon, milk whey, milk with tea, coffee, cocoa. 2. Soups: beef, veal, chicken, tomato, potato, oyster, mutton, pea, bean, squash; carefully strained and thickened with rice (powdered), arrowroot, flour, milk or cream, egg, barley. 3. Horlick's food, Mellins' food, malted milk, carnipeptone, bovinine, somatose.
الصفحة 47 - ... a surgical disease, yet operation may not be necessary in every case. The true cause of this affection is probably a stoppage of the drainage from the appendix to the colon, and preliminary treatment is often worse than useless. The opium treatment relieves pain and discomfort, but entirely masks the symptoms at a most important time, for it is in the first twenty-four hours from the beginning of the attack that we can decide not only as to the diagnosis, but as to the probable course and result...
الصفحة 284 - ... forward. 13. Thighs in turn flexed on trunk, opposite hand resting on chair. 14. Lower extremities in turn extended fully, and bent on trunk forward and backward to extreme limits of movement, opposite hand resting on chair. 15. Legs in turn flexed on thigh, both hands on chair. 16. Feet together; lower extremities in turn abducted as far as possible, and brought back to original position, opposite hand resting on chair. 17. The arms, extended horizontally outward, are rotated from the shoulderjoint...
الصفحة 67 - The first six substances are separately ground and reduced to fine powder. They are then mixed in a mortar of glass or china, and the solution of chloride of zinc is slowly poured in, while the contents are kept rapidly moved with the pestle so that no lump shall be formed. A thick layer of this is spread on cotton and left in position twenty-four hours...
الصفحة 283 - Arms hanging at sides, palms forwards; arms flexed at elbow until tips of fingers touch shoulder, back to original position ; one arm only moved at a time. (3) Arms down, palms forward, arms carried outwards and upwards until thumbs meet over head ; back to original position ; one arm only moved at a time.
الصفحة 47 - ... hours from the beginning of the attack that we can decide not only as to the diagnosis, but as to the probable course and result of the case. If in five or six hours there is no increase in urgency the patient is not in immediate danger if kept at perfect rest in bed ; if in twelve hours there is still no increase in the severity of the symptoms the patient should soon begin to improve. On the other hand, if the urgency of the case has steadily increased in twelve hours from the time when the...
الصفحة 283 - The following rules are laid down: 1. Each movement is to be performed slowly and evenly, that is, at a uniform rate. 2. No movement is to be repeated twice in succession in the same limb or group of muscles. • 3. Each single or combined movement is to be followed by an interval of rest. 4. The movements are not...
الصفحة 258 - A piece of lint soaked in this mixture is wrapped around the affected part, covered with protective dressing and kept in place by a bandage. It acts as a powerful counter-irritant, and the inflammation usually subsides in from twelve to twenty-four hours.
الصفحة 250 - The best results follow its use in the morning before breakfast, the patient taking it while in bed, and remaining on the left side for ten minutes before rising. It may be taken oftener, but once a day may suffice, and it is advantageously used in this manner after the practice of lavage. The hydrozone may at first produce acrid sensations in the stomach, but as the irritated gastric surface improves in tone under its influence this will pass away and sensitiveness to its action will subside. Where...
الصفحة 285 - It is also useful to relieve the alarming symptoms which occur in surgical anesthesia, in the cardiac weakness often associated with neurasthenia, and in that due to depressed nerve-force. Strophanthus is of great value as a cardiac sedative in that form of tachycardia so common in exophthalmic goitre. These two drugs will retain their supremacy because of their influence over the vital centres in the medulla, to which the various systems of the body look for support and encouragement.

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