The Science and practice of medicine v. 1, Volume 1

Couverture
Lindsay & Blakiston, 1868
 

Table des matières

Local Lesions coincident with Suppression and Retention of the Excreta
77
Definition of Inflammation
82
Typhoid Fever as a Symptom of Inflammation
114
Albuminoid Nature of the socalled Amyloid Degeneration
126
Appearance of Lardaceous Degeneration in Organs
131
Medicine shown to be a Productive Art
138
Types of Diseases are Modified by Complication with other Diseases 13
141
Varying Types of Disease prevail in Succession
147
PART II
162
Correlation of Pulse Respiration and Temperature
178
Shakspeares Description of the Effects of Constitutional Syphilis
180
Poisons
185
Affections connected with Pregnancy
191
PART III
203
Periods of Latency of Morbid Poisons
209
Vehicles or Media by which the Specific Infecting Virus may be
211
PATHOLOGY OF THE MIASMATIC ORDER OF ZYMOTIC DISEASES
215
Question as to the Spontaneous Origin of Diseases
221
VOL I
225
Principles which Guide the Management of Epidemics
227
Diagram showing the Typical Range of Temperature in a Case of Natural
239
Of Smallpox after VaccinationVarioloid or Modified Smallpox
246
CowPOXVaccinia
257
VACCINATION
266
CHICKENPOXVaricella
283
SCARLET FEVERFebris rubra
299
HYBRID OF MEASLES AND SCARLET FEVERRubeola
318
ERYSIPELASErysipelas
325
THE PLAGUEPestilentia
335
History of the Specific Distinction between Typhus and Typhoid Fever
342
Diagnosis of Typhoid Fever 874
375
Final Practical Indications for the Prevention of Typhoid Fever
382
Treatment of Hemorrhages in Typhoid Fever
388
of Favorable Import
407
Indications for the Use of Stimulants in Typhus Fever
413

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Page 249 - There is no contagion so strong and sure as that of small-pox, none that operates at so great a distance.
Page 576 - With juice of cursed hebenon in a vial, And in the porches of mine ears did pour The leperous distilment; whose effect Holds such an enmity with blood of man, That, swift as quicksilver, it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body ; And, with a sudden vigour, it doth posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood...
Page 116 - The temperature of the surface is not increased, but burning heat is felt in the palms of the hands and soles of the feet. The evacuations are often pale ; but sometimes they are dark-colored — pitchy — with grumous coffee or chocolate-like matter, and slight diarrhoea.
Page 740 - For nightcap, if required, A tumbler of grog — (gin, whisky, or brandy, without sugar) — or a glass or two of claret or sherry.
Page 203 - The diseases of this class distinguish one country from another — one year from another ; they have formed epochs in chronology ; and, as Niebuhr has shown, have influenced not only the fate of cities, such as Athens and Florence, but of empires ; they decimate armies, disable fleets ; they take the lives of criminals that justice has not condemned ; they redouble the dangers of crowded hospitals ; they infest the habitations of the poor, and strike the...
Page 230 - It is always to be desired that the people should, as far as possible, know what real precautions they can take against the disease which threatens them, what vigilance is needful with regard to its early symptoms, and what (if any) special arrangements have been made for giving medical assistance within the district. For the purpose of such information printed hand-bills or placards may usefully be employed, and in cases where danger is great...
Page 607 - ... risk that the disease will spread to persons who nurse and otherwise closely attend upon the sick.
Page 33 - A consideration of the different topics which together make up the Science of Medicine suggests a division of the subject into the following departments, namely: (1.) PHYSIOLOGY, which embraces the stud...
Page 740 - ... pudding, any kind of poultry or game, and two or three glasses of good claret, sherry, or Madeira — Champagne, Port and beer forbidden.
Page 228 - It should be seen that windows are made to open, and that they are sufficiently opened. Especially where any kind of infective fever has begun, it is essential, both for patients and for persons who are about them, that the sickroom and the sick-house...

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