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Page 111 - ... antimony, from a Jesuit how to cure agues, from a friar how to cut for stone, from a soldier how to treat gout, from a sailor how to keep off scurvy, from a post-master how to sound the Eustachian tube, from a dairy-maid how to prevent smallpox, and from an old market-woman how to catch the itch-insect. It borrowed acupuncture and the moxa from the Japanese heathen, and was taught the use of lobelia by the American savage.
Page 75 - The bromide of gold and arsenic is another remedy which, in my hands, has seemed to prove useful in the treatment of inoperable carcinoma ; but I have always used it in connection with other agents. I have had more confidence in the nuclein than in the bromide, chiefly, perhaps, because I had two cures in which I did not use the bromide, while I have had none where nuclein was not used.
Page 111 - Medicine, sometimes impertinently, often ignorantly, often carelessly called " allopathy," appropriates everything from every source that can be of the slightest use to anybody who is ailing in any way, or like to be ailing from any cause. It learned from a monk how to use antimony, from a Jesuit how to cure agues, from a friar how to cut for stone, from a soldier how to treat gout, from a sailor how to keep off scurvy, from a postmaster how to sound the Eustachian tube, from a dairy-maid how to...
Page 162 - ... badly. To extract the powder from the skin I have in years gone by applied a thick layer of castile soap made into a sort of dough, and as I had to deal here with the inflammation and pain...
Page 79 - Murphy saw the patient soon after and confirmed my statement that the tumor had disappeared. A letter from the patient last month states that there has been no return of any of the symptoms — seven months after he was pronounced cured. He is in better health than for many years. January, 1907, one- and a half years after the cure was completed, he is in splendid health. In presenting the foregoing cases, the author does not suggest that he has found an infallible cure for cancer, but rather that...
Page 79 - ... I advised an operation. He was willing to submit to one, but said that no one whom he had visited would agree to do it except Dr. JB Murphy, who was willing to operate upon request, but could not advise it with any hope of success. He returned to Dr. Murphy and was operated upon about January 25th at Mercy Hospital. Upon opening the abdomen a tumor .four or five inches in diameter was found at the sigmoid flexure. The infiltration into the adjacent structures and the adhesions were so extensive...
Page 306 - Dose : two teaspoonf uls every four hours. These doses may be varied somewhat as to quantity and interval if the conditions seem to require it. After taking this mixture for about forty-eight hours, let the patient fast for ten or twelve hours and then give the following at one dose: Take Spts. Eth. Co one drachm Olive Oil eight ounces Mix and shake well.
Page 267 - THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF DERMATOLOGY. Designed for students and practitioners. By William Allen Pusey, AM, MD, Professor of Dermatolo'gy in the University of Illinois ; Dermatologist to St. Luke's and Cook County Hospitals, Chicago; Member of the American Dermatological Association.
Page 45 - ... 1. Castor oil to clear the field of operation. It is the first aid to the injured. 2. Fresh air, cool and flowing. It reddens the blood, stimulates the heart, improves digestion, quiets restlessness, aids against toxemia. Regulate the temperature of air of the room inversely to that of the child. The patient's feet must always be warm, and the head cool. 3. Water, plenty, inside and outside. Temperature of the water as indicated by child's temperature. 4. Quiet and rest. Tranquilizing influences
Page 74 - Lauder Brunton was the first to investigate the chemical composition of cell-nuclei from which has been secured a compound called nuclein. This substance is an albuminoid and contains phosphorus. Nuclein is the most distinctive element of leucocytes, being the constituent by virtue of which the cell grows (FR Larned).