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MEDICAL NEWS.

MDCCCLXIX.

VOL. XXVII.

PHILADELPHIA:
HENRY C. LE A.

1869.

THII ADELPHIA:

CCILISS, FRINTER,

CONTENTS.

CLINICS.

Forcible Dilation of Urethra .

Protoxide of Nitrogen as an Anästhetic

CLINICAL LECTURE.

Carbolic Acid and the Antiseptic Treatment

Clinical Lecture on a Case of Death from in Surgery . .

Chloroform . . . . . .

1 Central Perforation of the perineum: Pas-

MEDICAL NEWS.

ś sage of the whole Foetus through the Rent 10

Fracture by Ointment . .

Domestic Intelligence. — Puerperal Convul-

Pathological Fungology.

sions . .

Parasites of Infectious Diseases

Case of congenital Imperforate Rectum, Suc-

Voltolini's Laryngoscopy without Mirror .

cessfully treated without a Cutting Instru-

Poisoning by Nicotine .

Catalogue of the United States Army Medi Occlusion of Hydrogen by Metals

Organic Synthesis . .

cal Museum .

. . .

The Stains of Iodine

Detroit Medical Col

Secondary Effects of th

enom

The Medical Bulletin

Poisonous Socks . .

Obituary . . . .

Adulterated Honey,

Foreign Intelligence.-Cardiac Neuralgia 6 Adulteration with Lead of Culinary Vessels

Peroxide of Hydrogen in Diabetes.

6 Danger of Meddling with Lunatics

Bromide of Potassium for the Sleeplessness Criminal Poisoning by Atropia

of Infants

6 Silkworm Disease . :

On Phosphorized 0

7 Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science 15

Therapeutic Value of Olive Oil

7 Moorfield's Ophthalmic Hospital

8 Baron James de Rothschild. : :

Digitalis in Delirium Tremens

15

Sleep Disease · · ·

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S Obituary Record

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SMITH ON WASTING DISEASES OF CHILDREN.

16 PAGES

CLINICS.

jured up, in consequence of which the indi.

CLINICAL LECTURE.

viduals conceive the idea that they are fet-

tered or impeded in their actions, and exe-

Clinical Lecture on a Case of Death from cute movements for their liberation. The

Chloroform.-By Dr. BilirOTH, Prof. Sur. psychical stimulus exhibits itself in various

gery at the Vienna University.

} ways in different individuals, just as drunk-

It is customary to divide chloroform-nar. enness will render one man quarrelsome or

cosis into certain stages, but these, both in violent, another loving and maudlin, and a

regard to the mode and ihe rapidity of their third melancholy. Purely individual con-

sequence, vary much in different individuals. {ditions ihus exert great influence. The

In the first stage, the patients are usually motory effects, besides the struggles due to

thrown into a state of excitement, which psychical influence, are chiefly of a spas-

chiefly influences the psychical and motory modic character, exhibiting themselves in

spheres, for I know of no case in which convulsive movements of the muscles of the

excitement of the sensitive nerves through extremities, and especially of the muscles

chloroform has produced hyperæsthesia. {of deglutition and mastication.

In only quite exceptional cases are the nerves Anästhesia commences in this stage, but

of the senses abnormally excited, and sub- the patients are usually restless, and some.

jective personations induced. Commonly, times so unmanageable as to require to be

the motory stimulation is so combined with restrained by three or four men, so that any

the psychical that menial images are con- { of the more delicate operations could not be

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