The Medical Chronicle: A Monthly Record of the Progress of Medical SchinceSherratt & Hughes, 1899 |
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abdominal abscess acid acute albumen albuminuria amyl nitrite aortic appearance attack autopsy bacillus bacteria bladder blood Bright's disease cancer cause cavity celloidin cells cent cervix chronic clinical condition curettage death degeneration diagnosis dilatation diphtheria disease doses effect Endocarditis enlarged examination fatty fibres filters fluid followed gall-bladder gangrene glands hæmorrhages heart hysterectomy increased infection intestine irregular kidney labour laceration lesion leucocytes liver Lond lung lymphatic malignant Manchester marked Medical method mitral months mucous membrane muscles muscular nerve nitrate normal observed occurs operation organisms pain paralysis pathological patient pelvis perforation peritoneum peritonitis phthisis plantar reflex posterior present Primipara pulse purulent pyrexia recovery removed renal septic signs slight spleen stomach suppuration surgeon surgery surgical sutures symptoms temperature theca interna tion tissue treatment tube tuberculosis tumour typhoid fever ulceration uric acid urine Uterine douche uterus vagina vaginal vomiting wall whilst wound
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Page 462 - The author has endeavored to furnish a reliable guide for mothers. He has made his statements plain and easily understood, in the hope that the volume may be of service not only to mothers and nurses, but also to students and practitioners whose opportunities for observing children have been limited. New York Medical Journal " We are confident if this little work could find its way into the hands of every trained nurse and of every mother, infant mortality would be lessened by at least fifty per...
Page 173 - The palate is placed like a dietetic conscience at the entrance gate of food, and its appointed function is to pass summary judgment on the wholesomeness or unwholesom'eness of the articles presented to it. It acts under the influence of a natural instinct, which is rarely at fault. This instinct represents an immense accumulation of experience, partly acquired and partly inherited. It is of course not infallible — no instinct is — but so close and true are the sympathies of the palate with the...
Page 350 - If a patient with meningitis be made to sit up, as on the edge of the bed, the thigh therefore being at a right angle with the body, it is found extremely difficult to extend the leg, because of a marked flexor contracture.
Page 131 - CONCLUSIONS. 1. The lutein cells are specialized connective-tissue cells which appear in the inner layers of the follicle wall at the time when it begins to show a differentiation into the theca interna and externa, and gradually increase in size and number until the period of maturity when they have assumed all of the characteristics which cause them to be designated lutein cells. The corpus luteum is therefore not an epithelial but a connective-tissue structure. 2. In the growing follicle the lutein...
Page 274 - An investigation upon the plantar reflex, with reference to the significance of its variations under pathological conditions, including an enquiry into the aetiology of acquired pes cavus.
Page 132 - The degeneration of the lutein cells is probably induced through the increasing density of the connective tissue surrounding them. 7. The retrogression of the corpus luteum is characterized first by the fatty degeneration of the lutein cells, followed by the shrinking of the connective-tissue net into a compact body (corpus fibrosum), after which it is gradually removed through hyaline changes until a very fine scar tissue is left, which is at last lost in the ovarian stroma. 8. The blood vessels...
Page 139 - Ten parts of cold water are first introduced into a flask and then one part of argonin. The whole is then vigorously shaken until a uniform mixture is had, when sufficient boiling water to make up the desired quantity of solution is added, the whole being frequently shaken until complete solution occurs, when the mixture is strained through a piece of gauze.
Page 140 - Infants," relating some seven cases in which he showed the advantages to be derived from the use of Protargol in the treatment of gonorrheal ophthalmia. " The results obtained show that the duration of the disease has been shortened, that gonococci have disappeared at an earlier date than usual, and that the sight of the affected eye has, to say the least, not suffered more than when other methods of treatment have been employed. In the earliest cases the protargol powder was dusted into the eye...
Page 382 - INFARCTIONS OF URIC ACID are frequent in new-born infants, and those of a hemorrhagic and pigmentous nature are not uncommon. and calcareous deposits are at least of occasional occurrence in the kidneys of the newly-born. Gravel and stone are also frequent in infancy. All these foreign masses lead to disintegration of the endothelia, to hemorrhage, and to inflammation. Moreover, the rapid destruction of the red blood-cells in the normal...
Page 121 - A large proportion of these cases have remained free from recurrence more than three years after treatment — the period which has generally been accepted as of sufficient length to justify their being regarded as permanent cures.