241. Describe the treatment of neurasthenia. (June, 1895.) 241. Thompson's Practical Medicine, page 875. 242. (a) Mention a disease of the nervous system in which the patellar reflex usually disappears; (b) one in which it is usually exaggerated. (May, 1896.) 242. (a) Locomotor ataxia; (b) amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. 243. (a) Describe herpes zoster and (b) its treatment. (April, 1895.) 243. (a) Thompson's Practical Medicine, page 866; (b) pages 867 and 776. 244. What treatment should be adopted for concussion of the spinal cord? (April, 1893.) 244. Stimulants and warmth to counteract the effects of the shock. Then absolute quiet and rest in bed for a long period of time; bromides and chloral are often needed to procure sleep; pain can be overcome with morphine or by applications of ice to the spinal column. During convalescence tonics, fresh air, and nutritious diet are necessary. 8. MISCELLANEOUS DISEASES, POISONS, AND 245. (a) How do rheumatism and gout differ etiologically? (January, 1898.) 246. (b) Give the prophylactic treatment of gout. (June, 1898.) 247. (c) Give the treatment of an acute attack of gout. (June, 1899.) 245 to 247. (a) Thompson's Practical Medicine, pages 294, 293, 901, and 908; (b) page 911; (c) page 912. 248. (a) What is scurvy? How should it (b) be prevented and (c) treated? (January, 1895.) 248. (a) Thompson's Practical Medicine, page 933; (b) page 936; (c) page 936; and Hare's Practical Therapeutics, page 747. 249. Give (a) the etiology of rhachitis. (b) At what age does it occur? (June, 1896.) 250. (b) At what period of life does rhachitis occur? (c) Describe its treatment. (May, 1895.) 251. (b) At what period of life does rhachitis occur? (c) Describe the treatment of rhachitis. (January, 1899.) 252. Describe (d) the symptoms and (c) treatment of rhachitis. (September, 1901.) 249 to 252. (a) Thompson's Practical Medicine, page 942; (b) page 942; (c) page 944; and Hare's Practical Therapeutics, page 740; (d) Thompson's Practical Medicine, page 943. 253. (a) Describe the treatment of diabetes mellitus. (November, 1891.) 254. Give the (a) treatment and (b) prognosis of diabetes mellitus. (June, 1896.) 255. (a) Give the dietetic treatment of diabetes mellitus with the rationale of the same. (May, 1899.) 256. (c) What cutaneous diseases may occur as complications of saccharine diabetes? (d) Give the pathology of their occurrence as such complications. (September, 1897.) 253 to 256. (a) Thompson's Practical Medicine, page 950; and Hare's Practical Therapeutics, page 585. (b) Thompson's Practical Medicine, page 950; (c) page 949; (d) caused in part by the malnutrition resulting from the disease, and in part by the vulnerability to bacterial infection which is peculiar to this disease. Eczema about the genitals is caused by the frequent micturition and by irritation from the sugar in the urine. 257. Describe (a) the symptoms and (b) treatment of diabetes insipidus. (June, 1902.) 257. (a) Thompson's Practical Medicine, page 954; (b) page 954; and Hare's Practical Therapeutics, page 585. 258. What is the treatment of sunstroke? (March, 1893.) 259. How should a case of insolation (sunstroke) be treated? (April, 1898.) 258 and 259. Thompson's Practical Medicine, page 957; and Hare's Practical Therapeutics, page 752. 260. Describe the course of treatment in a case of delirium tremens. (January, 1892.) 261. Give the treatment of delirium tremens. (April, 1897.) 262. Outline the treatment of mania a potu. (May, 1896.) 260 to 262. Thompson's Practical Medicine, page 968; and Hare's Practical Therapeutics, pages 64 and 65. 263. How should poisoning by coal-gas (carbonic oxide) be treated? (June, 1893.) 263. Thompson's Practical Medicine, page 973. 264. Give (a) the symptoms and (b) treatment of tapeworm. (May, 1897.) 265. (b) What measures should be employed to rid the system of tapeworm? (July, 1893.) 264 and 265. (a) Thompson's Practical Medicine, page 979; (b) page 979; and Hare's Practical Therapeutics, page 773. 266. State (a) the cause and give (b) the treatment of trichinosis. (November, 1894.) 266. (a) Thompson's Practical Medicine, page 982; (b) page 983. 9. UNCLASSIFIED. 267. Define (a) subjective symptoms of disease, (b) objective symptoms of disease. (September, 1902.) 267. (a) Such symptoms as are perceived by the patient are called subjective-e. g., nausea, anorexia; (b) Such symptoms as are evident to the senses of the examiner are called objective-e. g., high temperature, redness. Under objective symptoms are often included the physical signs, which are noted by inspection, palpation, percussion, auscultation and mensuration. 268. When is a disease (a) endemic and when (b) epidemic? (May, 1893.) |