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Page 113 - A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE DISEASES, INJURIES, AND MALFORMATIONS OF THE URINARY BLADDER, THE PROSTATE GLAND, AND THE URETHRA.
Page 36 - Edited by JAMES C. WILSON, MD, Professor of the Practice of Medicine and of Clinical Medicine in the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia.
Page 141 - TRACHEOTOMY, especially in Relation to Diseases of the Larynx and Trachea, by PUGIN THORNTON, MRCS, late Surgeon to the Hospital for Diseases of the Throat. With Photographic Plates and Woodcuts, 8vo, 5s.
Page 38 - Wilde claims that he can cure every case of hooping-cough within eight days by the following treatment : The patient is not to leave the room, and at every access of coughing is to hold before his mouth a small piece of cloth, folded several times, and wet with a teaspoonful of the following solution : ether, 60 parts ; chloroform, 30 parts; turpentine, 10 parts.
Page 438 - Murchisou repeats the thoughtful suggestion that ' most persons have more liver, just as they have more lung, than is absolutely necessary for the due performance of its function. But in others, not unfrequently the offspring of gouty parents, the organ in its natural condition seems only just capable of performing its healthy functions under the most favorable circumstances, and functional derangement is at once induced by articles of diet which most persons digest with facility.
Page 503 - Mosler has been advocating a system of treating tapeworm which, according to a Swiss medical journal, has been attended with remarkable success. Its chief characteristic is the injection of large quantities of warm water into the colon, after the administration of the anthelmintic. The diet is first regulated, food being given which is supposed to be distasteful to the tapeworm,— bilberry tea, herrings, sour cucumber, salted meats.
Page 67 - Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine, and of Clinical Medicine, and formerly Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, in the Medical College of Ohio.
Page 484 - This is precisely what I have tried to show, only that it is a relative degeneracy of certain tissues. Dr. Walshe has collected evidence that " the maximum amount of cancerous disease occurs in Europe, and that it is very rare among the patients of the hospitals at Hobart Town and Calcutta, and among the natives of Egypt, Algiers, Senegal, Arabia, and the tropical parts of America.
Page 484 - ... the cases are so frequent in which deep anxiety, deferred hope, and disappointment, are quickly followed by the growth or increase of cancer, that we can hardly doubt that mental depression is a weighty addition to the other influences that favor the development of the cancerous constitution. Nor is it strange that it should be so ; it is consistent with the many other facts showing the affinity between cancer and depressed nutrition.
Page 46 - Ther. by Dr. Ortega. In the manufactory in which he worked he was avoided by his fellow-workmen, and when he entered a room, the window would be opened. He had consulted several physicians, but without success. The epidermis of the sole of the foot was white and mascerated, and there were little ulcerations at the clefts of the toes, and around the nails.