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... vomiting , and giving rise to so great a degree of depression as to necessitate its discon- tinuance . Besides its use in those more formidable diseases to which reference has hitherto been made , mercury is also often employed as a ...
... vomiting , and giving rise to so great a degree of depression as to necessitate its discon- tinuance . Besides its use in those more formidable diseases to which reference has hitherto been made , mercury is also often employed as a ...
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... vomiting , but it also exerts a most powerful depressing action on the circulation , and is therefore specially indicated in acute inflammation of the lungs and air - tubes . When the object is merely to empty the stomach , to produce ...
... vomiting , but it also exerts a most powerful depressing action on the circulation , and is therefore specially indicated in acute inflammation of the lungs and air - tubes . When the object is merely to empty the stomach , to produce ...
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... . Much may be learned from the state of the digestive functions . The bowels are almost always disturbed ; usually , though not invariably , constipated ; while nausea and 32 PRECURSORS OF AN ATTACK OF CONVULSIONS . vomiting are.
... . Much may be learned from the state of the digestive functions . The bowels are almost always disturbed ; usually , though not invariably , constipated ; while nausea and 32 PRECURSORS OF AN ATTACK OF CONVULSIONS . vomiting are.
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... vomiting , and especially its continuance . At first , perhaps , the child vomits only when it has taken food ; but before long the stomach will reject even the blandest fluid , and then the efforts at vomiting will come on when the ...
... vomiting , and especially its continuance . At first , perhaps , the child vomits only when it has taken food ; but before long the stomach will reject even the blandest fluid , and then the efforts at vomiting will come on when the ...
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... vomiting , usually precede for a few hours the convulsive seizure . When the brain is thus seriously involved , the recovery from the convulsions is very im- perfect ; coma perhaps succeeds to them , or other evidences of cerebral ...
... vomiting , usually precede for a few hours the convulsive seizure . When the brain is thus seriously involved , the recovery from the convulsions is very im- perfect ; coma perhaps succeeds to them , or other evidences of cerebral ...
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abdomen adult affection appearance arachnoid attack attended auscultation become blood bowels brain breathing bronchi bronchial bronchitis calomel catarrh cause cerebral character chest child childhood chorea coma condition congestion considerable constipated continued convulsions cord cough course croup death degree dentition depletion deposit diarrhoea diphtheria disease disorder disturbance doses drowsiness dura mater dyspnoea early effusion epilepsy excited existed extreme false membrane fatal fever fluid frequent glands glottis hæmorrhage head hooping-cough hydrocephalus increase infant inflammation instances intestines irritation larynx less lungs measles mischief months morbid mucous mucous membrane nature nervous system notice observed occasionally occur organs pain paroxysms patient peculiar phthisis pia mater pleurisy pneumonia present pulse quantity remedies respiration result scarlatina scarlet fever seems seldom severe side skin slight softening sometimes spinal stage stomach substance suffering supervene surface symptoms takes place tion tracheotomy treatment tubercle tubercular ulceration urine usually ventricles vomiting weeks
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