Medical Analectic: A Monthly Epitome of Progress in All Divisions of Medico-chirurgical Practice, Volume 6

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G.P. Putnam's Sons., 1889

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Page 288 - June i, 1889, to May 31, 1890. Nearly 26,000 of these registration books were filled up and returned to the office in 1880, and nearly all of them used for statistical purposes. It is hoped that double this number will be obtained for the Eleventh Census. Physicians not receiving Registers can obtain them by sending their names and addresses to the Census Office, and, with the Register, an official envelope, which requires no stamp, will be provided for their return to Washington.
Page 480 - How Far Should Health Authorities be Permitted to Apply Known Preventive Measures for the Control of Diphtheria?" IX. " Compulsory Vaccination." X. "Sanitation of Asylums, Prisons, Jails, and other Eleemosynary Institutions.
Page 288 - Army, has consented to take charge of the Report on the Mortality and Vital Statistics of the United States as returned by the Eleventh Census. As the United...
Page 313 - Psoriasis rarely attacks the skin of the palms of the hands or the soles of the feet, and Dr.
Page 3 - That the production of intestinal antisepsis is a rational mode of treatment of enteric fever, and that /S-naphthol is a safe and tolerably efficient agent for this end. (2) That by its use in the above cases the duration of the disease was shortened, and the intensity of the symptoms directly arising from profound disturbance in the alimentary canal was lessened. (3) That the tendency to the occurrence of splenic enlargement, albuminuria, and of secondary complications such as boils, abscesses,...
Page 547 - That, although sometimes leading to a fatal issue, this variety of haemoptysis usually subsides without the supervention of any coarse anatomical lesion of either the heart or the lungs.
Page 122 - True intestinal obstruction, whatever its cause may be, is as strictly a surgical affection as strangulated hernia and remediable only by the same kind of surgical treatment. Physicians should recognize this fact and should call into counsel a surgeon as soon as a probable diagnosis of intestinal obstruction can be made.
Page 549 - To be given every one, two, or three hours, according to the severity of the case or the age of the patient.
Page 221 - There was no ascites, but the veins over the upper part of the abdomen and the lower part of the chest were enlarged and varicose.
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