St. Louis Courier of Medicine, Volume 15Medical Journal and Library Association of the Mississippi Valley, 1886 |
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Page 437 - THE PREVENTABLE CAUSES OF DISEASE, INJURY, AND DEATH IN AMERICAN MANUFACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS, AND THE BEST MEANS AND APPLIANCES FOR PREVENTING AND AVOIDING THEM.
Page 143 - This will be one of the most important meetings in the history of the Association. The...
Page 426 - A MANUAL OF AUSCULTATION AND PERCUSSION; of the Physical Diagnosis of Diseases of the Lungs and Heart, and of Thoracic Aneurism.
Page 160 - He considered the most conspicuous lesions to be cyanotic induration of the kidneys, fatty infiltration of the liver, and mammillated stomach. His cases had been those in which there had been a history of a long-continued series of debauches, the subjects often dying in one of these debauches, and did not include moderate drinkers or those who perished after imbibition of an enormous quantity of alcohol without any previous chronic excesses. He...
Page 436 - abdominal section" or a " laparotomy " in the sense that these terms are now used to indicate the surgical opening of the peritoneal cavity. 10. Chronic pelvic abscesses, which have burst spontaneously and have discharged through the vagina, rectum, or elsewhere for months or years, are exceedingly difficult to cure. This is particularly the case when the opening is high up in the rectum. A counter-opening in the vagina, or enlarging the opening if there situated, the curette, stimulant irrigation,...
Page 540 - Andrew sets forth what he regards as the teaching of a study of hay fever concerning the pathology of bronchial asthma, holding that it is a neurovascular trophic disease, and has its roots in a special vulnerability of the respiratory mucous membrane, of the respiratory nerve centres, and of certain portions of the sympathetic.
Page 437 - 4. All papers presented to the Association must be either printed, typewritten, or in plain handwriting, and be in the hands of the Secretary at least twenty days prior to the annual meeting, to insure their critical examination as to their fulfilling the requirements of the Association.
Page 251 - Lectures on Diseases of the Nervous System, especially in "Women. By S. WEIR MITCHELL, MD, Physician to the Philadelphia Infirmary for Diseases of the Nervous System.
Page 131 - The weight of the latter is now supported by the thumbs in front of the thorax, and the chest pressed on all round by the fingers, and its arms laid against its sides. This compression, through the diaphragm below and the fingers all round, causes aspirated fluids to flow freely from the mouth and nose. After being retained in this position a few seconds, the body is swung smartly down again...
Page 138 - ... a few hours. If it increases, instead of disappearing, and on the following day there is considerable suffering, which may not perhaps be sufficient to keep the patient on his back, but is still enough to make him decidedly uncomfortable, it is a pretty good indication that a slough is about to form. For the reason that it is impossible to tell absolutely what the effect...