Materia Medica: Physiological and Applied, Volumen1

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Trübner, 1884 - 726 páginas

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Página 570 - The resemblance in many respects between the action of this medicine and that of the syphilitic virus, and also its analogy to Mercury, would lead us to hope that we may find in it another remedy for that disease.
Página 234 - At twelve o'clock, in addition to the above symptoms, there was a starting of his limbs. He had attempted to take some broth, but his stomach did not retain it. The skin of the whole arm had a livid appearance, similar to what is met with in a dead body, when putrefaction has begun to take place, unlike any thing which I had ever seen in so large a portion of the living body.
Página 288 - In its acute form the sense of aching is out of all proportion to the visible mischief. When chronic it is the " irritable throat," always uneasy, and causing choking, hawking, and coughing. The feeling as of a dry spot in the throat, or of general dryness of the part, especially on waking from sleep, also of a lump in the throat on empty deglutition, are characteristic of it. Several of Dr. Hering's cases are of this, kind ; and there is a striking one in vol.
Página 5 - Soap-bark for forty-eight hours, with fifteen ounces of the Spirit, in a close vessel, agitating occasionally; then transfer to a percolator, and when the fluid ceases to pass, pour into the percolator the remaining five ounces of the Spirit.
Página 555 - ... in a few days becoming pustular, and in some presenting a dark point in the centre — invading hands, arms, face, back, and belly. On the belly, near the umbilicus, some spots evidently of abraded vesicles, presenting a deep hollowed appearance, which remains after they are healed (Mel.).
Página 702 - It appears that a part of our patient's duty was to clean and keep bright the pewter pots belonging to the public-house to which he was attached. This he did by friction with his hands. Now...
Página 234 - I had ever seen in so large a portion of the living body. An obscure fluctuation was felt under the skin of the outside of the wrist and forearm, which induced me to make a puncture with a lancet, but only a small portion of a serous fluid was discharged.
Página 366 - ... used Lachesis and speaks well of it, but as Arsenicum was generally alternated with it, this experience is of doubtful value. Dr. Neidhard, in an epidemic occurring in Philadelphia, in 1853, was led to rely more and more exclusively on Crotalus in its treatment. He found the dilutions from the 3rd downwards far superior to the higher. In 1858 some more cases occurred, and again Crotalus served him well. He was thus led to give it in cognate forms of disease (as he considers them) — the
Página 407 - February, at eight o'clock am, the night had been very restless. The gentle sleep which I had several times was troubled with dreams, which were remarkable for excessive imagination. I had much thirst, nausea, and uneasiness at the stomach.
Página 236 - Around this, the skin was in a state of mortification, more than halfway up the outside of the arm, and as far downwards, on the outside of the forearm. The skin still adhered to the biceps flexor muscle in the arm, and flexor muscles in the forearm, by a dark coloured cellular membrane. Every where else in the arm and forearm, from the axilla downwards, the skin was separated from the muscles, and between these parts there was a dark coloured fluid, with an offensive smell, and sloughs of cellular...

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