A Practical treatise on materia medica and therapeuticsD. Appleton, 1899 - 866 pages |
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action active acute administered agent alcohol alkaline alkaloid ammonia anæmia antipyretic antiseptic application aquæ arrest arterial atropine belladonna blood bromide calomel carbolic acid carbonate cardiac catarrh cause cerebral chloral chloride chloroform chronic cold combination condition contains depression digestion digitalis dilatation disease drachm effects emetic employed ergot ether excitement extract Fahr faradic fever fluid gastric glycerin grains hæmorrhage heart hyoscyamine hypodermatic increased inflammation inhalation injection intestinal intestinal canal iodide iodine iodoform iron irritation large doses medicinal mercury milk morphine mucous membrane muscles muscular nausea nerves occur odor opium organs ounces pain paralysis patient pepsin physiological poisoning potassium preparations produced quantity quinine relieved remedy respiration rheumatism salicylic salicylic acid salts skin soda sodium soluble in water solution stimulation stomach strychnine subcutaneous sulphate sulphuric symptoms tannic acid taste temperature therapeutical tincture tion tissues toxic treatment ulcers urine vomiting
Popular passages
Page 428 - Menthol occurs as colorless, acicular or prismatic crystals, having a strong and pure odor of peppermint and a warm, aromatic taste, followed by a sensation of cold when air is drawn into the mouth.
Page 859 - Edited by JAMES C. WILSON, MD, Professor of the Practice of Medicine and of Clinical Medicine in the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia.
Page 860 - Medicine, in which the several diseases are fully discussed in alphabetical order. The description of each includes an account of its etiology and anatomical characters ; its symptoms, course, duration, and termination ; its diagnosis, prognosis, and, lastly, its treatment. General Pathology comprehends articles on the origin, characters, and nature of disease. General Therapeutics includes articles on the several classes of remedies, their modes of action, and on the methods of their use. The articles...
Page 302 - The affected part should be well washed with soap and water, then with water alone, to remove every particle of soap, as the soap would decompose the nitrate of silver; then to be wiped dry with a soft towel. The concentrated solution of four scruples of the nitrate of silver to four drachms of distilled water is then to be applied two or three times on the inflamed surface and beyond it, on the healthy skin, to the extent of two or three inches.
Page 57 - For dinner, five or six ounces of any fish except salmon, any meat except pork, any vegetable except potato, one ounce of dry toast, fruit out of a pudding, any kind of poultry or game, and two or three glasses of good claret, sherry, or Madeira — Champagne, Port and beer forbidden.
Page 860 - ... this end was attained more completely than the most sanguine expectations of the able editor and his assistants could have anticipated. ... In preparing a new edition the fact had to be faced that never in the history of medicine had progress been so rapid as in the last twelve years. New facts have been ascertained, and new ways of looking at old facts have come to be recognized as true. . . . The revision which the work has undergone has been of the most thorough and judicious character. ....
Page 67 - Skin and chop up small a small chicken or half a large fowl, and boil it, bones and all, with a blade of mace, a sprig of parsley, and a crust of bread, in a quart of water for an hour, skimming it from time to time. Strain through a coarse colander.
Page 681 - The emetic effect of Tobacco is doubtless the product of three factors : its cerebral action, its local irritation of the gastric mucous membrane, and its specific emetic property. The secretions of the intestinal mucous membrane are increased, and the muscular layer is thrown into tetanic contraction, whence the catharsis which follows its administration.
Page 858 - Practical Dietetics with Special Reference to Diet in Disease. By W. Oilman Thompson, MD , Professor of Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Clinical Medicine in the University of the City of New York : Visiting Physician to the Presbyterian and Bellevue Hospitals.
Page 638 - ... in consequence of gastric catarrh ; and diminished blood supply to the cerebro-spinal axis. The disorders of voluntary movement, the uncertain gait, the apparent defects of co-ordination, are variously explained : but they are doubtless made up of several factors, of which the cutaneous anaesthesia is the most influential. The Bromides possess the power to destroy or impair the irritability of the motor and sensory nerves, and contractility of muscle ; and to these effects, must be attributed,...