International Clinics: A Quarterly of Clinical Lectures

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J.B. Lippincott., 1924

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Page i - International Clinics. A Quarterly of Illustrated Clinical Lectures and Especially Prepared Original Articles on Treatment, Medicine, Surgery, Neurology, Pediatrics, Obstetrics, Gynecology, Orthopedics, Pathology, Dermatology, Ophthalmology, Otology, Rhinology, Laryngology, Hygiene, and Other Topics of Interest to Students and Practitioners.
Page 161 - The pecuniary liability of the employer for the treatment and other service herein required shall be limited to such charges as prevail in the same community for similar treatment of injured persons of a like standard of living when such treatment is paid for by the injured person.
Page 172 - Co., handling hides; that the reasonable inference is that he contracted anthrax in the course of his employment; and that he died as a result of said anthrax on November 20th. The commission has also found that the contracting of anthrax, consisting of the bite of the bacillus of anthrax, was an accidental injury within the meaning of the Compensation Law, and that said injury arose out of and in the course of his employment. Upon the hearing before the deputy commissioner, the only question litigated...
Page 172 - ... already indicated, and not the mere result of gradual development from long-continued exposure to natural dangers incident to the employment of the deceased person, as in cases of occupational diseases, the risks of which are voluntarily assumed. Here the anthrax germ, a distinguishable entity, came into actual contact with the deceased, thus gaining an entrance into his body, and his neck began to swell and discolor; therefore the complaint from which McCauley died can be traced to a certain...
Page 176 - Commission: (1) That there was an injury resulting in hernia ; (2) That the hernia appeared suddenly ; (3) That it was accompanied by pain ; (4) That the hernia immediately followed an accident ; and (5) That the hernia did not exist prior to the accident for which compensation is claimed.
Page 276 - ' The stomach and duodenum are very frequently the seat of secondary foci The bacteria invade the stomach wall and appear to interfere with the secretion of hydrochloric acid, so necessary to digestion. Cultures of the stomach contents will reveal the presence of various types of streptococci and frequently of various types of colon bacilli. The chemical examination of stomach contents will show either a very low secretion of hydrochloric acid, or in many cases, its entire absence during the test...
Page 42 - Infant mortality rate — Number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1,000 live births in a given year.
Page 87 - ... through three stages : local destruction, connective tissue formation, and hyalinization. 5. A hysterectomy after successful irradiation of an otherwise inoperable case is hazardous and does not promote the best interests of the patient. 6. Results of irradiation in cancer of the cervix practically remove this class of cases from the surgical field, although we have not yet completely yielded this point. 7. Cases of cancer of the fundus, unless too far advanced, or unless there is a critical...
Page 298 - And, finally, there is the group that says there is no way of telling which is the good doctor and which is the bad one, and it is too dangerous to experiment with them. Osteopathy...
Page 248 - In the early stage, glucose is more powerful than starch in producing diabetes, and animals which are progressing toward complete recovery on starch diet can be sent into hopeless diabetes by admixture of glucose.

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