American Medicine, Volume 15

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American-Medicine Publishing Company, 1909

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Page 644 - Formulas and Doses for Hypodermic Medication, Poisons and their Antidotes, Diameters of the Female Pelvis and Fetal Head, Obstetrical Table, Diet...
Page 644 - Materials and Drugs used in Antiseptic Surgery, Treatment of Asphyxia from Drowning, Surgical Remembrancer. Tables of Incompatibles, Eruptive Fevers, etc..
Page 438 - Full information concerning these examinations can be procured upon application to the "Surgeon General, US Army, Washington, DC...
Page 438 - The essential requirements to securing an invitation are that the applicant shall be a citizen of the United States, shall be between 22 and 30 years of age, a graduate of a medical school legally authorized to confer the degree of doctor of medicine, shall be of good moral character and habits, and shall have had at least one year's hospital training as an interne, after graduation.
Page 496 - These sinuses when complete are the sequelae to an abscess history, but the origin of the blind recesses is in doubt, and yet it is not unlikely due to an infection by the colon bacillus. 6. The treatment is surgical for the purpose of obliterating the sinuses, correcting a rigid sphincter when necessary, and curing the proctitis and ulceration. 7. Gastro-intestinal and general metabolic disturbances must be met by rational measures. "PRURITUS ANI, ITS ETIOLOGY AND TREATMENT.
Page 72 - ... or rapid loss of weight) ; slight or no elevation of temperature or acceleration of pulse at any time during the twentyfour hours. Expectoration usually small in amount or absent. Tubercle bacilli may be present or absent. Slight infiltration limited to the apex of one or both lungs, or a small part of one lobe. No tuberculous complications.
Page 645 - By Charles H. Beard, MD, Surgeon to the Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary...
Page 413 - Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
Page 292 - One of the important points in anesthesia which is not infrequently forgotten is to determine before its induction whether the patient can breathe freely through his nostrils. Nasal obstruction will prove more or less of a barrier to efficient anesthetization, and under these circumstances it may be advisable to let the patient inhale the anesthetic by way of the mouth, this being facilitated by placing a prop between the teeth.
Page 62 - ... with the food has not been found to exert any deleterious effect on the general health, nor to act as a poison in the general acceptation of the term. In some directions there were slight modifications in certain physiological processes, the exact significance of which modifications is not known. Third. — The admixture of sodium benzoate with food in small or large doses has not been found to injuriously affect or impair the quality or nutritive value of such food.

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