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Page 186 - ... mulberry wine, and sucking the red juice of pomegranates ? Yet this was the boasted prescription of John of Gaddesden, who took no small credit to himself for bringing his royal patient safely through the disease.
Page 367 - The method of procedure need not be elaborate ; the patient should be placed in the left lateral position with the knees well drawn up, the rays being directed from below upwards.
Page 92 - We have seen that an increase in the number of red corpuscles and in the amount of haemoglobin in the blood takes place with diminished barometric pressure.
Page 803 - It is all the more necessary to do so in order to advise against some of these, especially as they are still sometimes used for the sake of convenience.
Page 1090 - ... may be prescribed, and they all have their advocates. Of these salicin is possibly the most useful, and should be given in doses of 10 to 15 gr. three times a day. At the same time any obvious defects in the general health, such as rheumatism, digestive disturbances and constipation, should be corrected by suitable means. Local Treatment/ — With regard to the local treatment...
Page 794 - ... convex mirror we can by suitable design cancel out the spherical aberration. And such a microscope has a large workingdistance. The central optical problem with reflecting microscopes is to provide an instrument of suitable numerical aperture free from spherical aberration and from coma. Undoubtedly the best results are to be obtained by the use of the aspherizing technique of Burch. At the time our work began no reflecting microscopes were generally available, although Burch had constructed...
Page 242 - Blisters to the praecordial area should not be used, as they interfere with the thorough examination of the heart. After an attack of pericarditis the patient should be kept in bed for from three to twelve months according to the severity of the case and the persistence of dilatation, rapid and irregular pulse, etc. Relapses. — These should be guarded against by the continuance of the salicylate of soda as advised above. The liability to an increase of the cardiac lesion must always be borne in...
Page 987 - This however generally yields in time, and should be treated on the lines laid down for the treatment of rhinitis sicca (see below).
Page 534 - When gross errors exist, either in the refraction or in the muscular equilibrium the patient cannot correct, and consequently makes no attempt to correct, the defect, and eyestrain is not produced. The smaller the error...
Page 534 - Eye-strain is a symptom, or group of symptoms, produced by the correction, or attempt at correction, by the ciliary muscle of an error of refraction, or a want of balance between the external muscles of the eye (heterophoria).