The Cyclopaedia of Practical Medicine: Comprising Treatises on the Nature and Treatment of Diseases, Materia Medica and Therapeutics, Medical Jurisprudence, Etc., Etc, Volume 2Sir John Forbes, Alexander Tweedie, John Conolly Lea and Blanchard, 1845 - Medicine |
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Page 239 - Transactions of a Society for the Improvement of Medical and Chirurgical Knowledge.
Page 242 - In the autumn of 1829 a physician was present at the examination of a case of puerperal fever, dissected out the organs, and assisted in sewing up the body. He had scarcely reached home when he was summoned to attend a young lady in labor. In sixteen hours she was attacked with the symptoms of puerperal fever, and narrowly escaped with her life.§...
Page 241 - March, he was called tn attend a private patient in labour, who was safely delivered the same day. On the 19th, she was attacked with the worst symptoms of uterine phlebitis; severe rigors, great disturbance of the cerebral functions, rapid feeble pulse, with acute pain of the hypogastrium, and peculiar sallow colour of the whole surface of the body: she died on the fourth day after the attack, the 22d of March, and between this period and the 6th of April Mr.
Page 36 - There are so many determining factors in the problem, however, that it is impossible to lay down any general rule as to the comparative economy of the use of water-power.
Page 241 - I had evident proofs that every person who had been with a patient in the puerperal fever became charged with an atmosphere of infection, which was communicated to every pregnant woman who happened to come within its sphere.
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Page 105 - ... idiopathic erysipelas, whatever may be the part affected, or with whatever symptoms it may be accompanied, is as follows : — The patient is put on a milk diet, the bowels gently opened, and from four to six ounces of port wine, together with sago, allowed daily. This mode of treatment it is seldom necessary to vary throughout the whole course of the disease ; for the delirium, if present, is generally tranquillized ; if absent, prevented ; the tongue more rarely becomes brown, or only continues...
Page 207 - ... rapidly thin ; their fat disappears ; they become emaciated. . . Patients who are kept under the influence of M. grow pale as well as thin, and Dr. Farre, who has paid great attention to the effects, remedial and injurious, of this drug, holds that it quickly destroys red blood. As an example of this, he was in the habit of relating in his lectures the case of a lady who was attacked with hematemesis, and whose gastric system was gorged with blood. ' Her complexion,- said the doctor, • was...
Page 71 - Philadelphia must admit the unwelcome truth sooner or later, that the yellow fever is engendered in her own bowels ; or she must renounce her character for knowledge and policy, and perhaps with it her existence as a commercial city.
Page 276 - Upon a careful review of all the proceedings before this Board, I am of opinion that the evidence brought forward has totally failed to prove that the late epidemic disease was introduced from any foreign source, either by the Swedish ship Dygden or by any other means ; and I am further of opinion that the late epidemic had its origin at Gibraltar.