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Page 689 - That while other methods of treatment may, in some cases, offer hope for the cancer victim, the evidence is conclusive that surgery, for operable cases, affords the surest present means of cure.
Page 105 - Fellow of the American College of Surgeons; a member of the American Association of Military Surgeons, which he served as President in 1915.
Page 952 - Syringe is that The Marvel, by its Centrifugal action, dilates and flushes the vaginal passage with a volume of whirling fluid, which smooths out the folds and permits the injection to come in contact with its entire surface.
Page 689 - That in cancer, as in all other disease, attention to diet, exercise and proper hygienic surroundings is of distinct value. 7. That, notwithstanding the possibility of underlying general factors, cancer may, for all practical purposes, be at present regarded as local in its beginning. 8. That, when accessible, it may, in its incipiency, be removed so perfectly by radical operation that the chances are overwhelmingly in favor of its nonrecurrence.
Page 689 - Articles of Faith" Concerning Cancer — A Platform upon Which to Unite in the Campaign of Education. 1. That the hereditary and congenital acquirement of cancer are subjects which require much more study before any definite conclusions can be formed concerning them, and that, In the light of our present knowledge, they hold no special element of alarm. 2. That...
Page 46 - It is wiser to choose the safer operation until the technic of the more complicated one has been mastered. Cholecystostomy is the operation of election : 1. Whenever the patient's condition is so bad that the difficulties attending a cholecystectomy render its performance unsafe. 2. When the gall-bladder is not seriously damaged and when the cystic duct is not ulcerated or narrowed by stricture. It is believed that the gall-bladder has some other function than that of a mere receptacle of bile. 3....
Page 685 - An order purporting to be a prescription issued to an addict or habitual user of narcotics, not in the course of professional treatment but for the purpose of providing the user with narcotics sufficient to keep him comfortable by maintaining his customary use...
Page 971 - Catgut i -=**aCI is threaded on a suitable needle, ready for instant use. Indispensable for your surgical bag. One tube in each box. Price, 25 cents each; $3.00 per dozen tubes. No samples.
Page 120 - In the aforementioned conditions, adhesions may lie torn, abscesses may be ruptured by the enlarging uterus. 15. The symptomatology of appendicitis in the pregnant is the same as in the non-pregnant. The clinical picture, however, is blurred by the co-existing symptoms of pregnancy. Mistakes are less likely to occur by keeping in mind that: (a) Every pregnant woman is to be examined for physical defects; (b) The history is all-important; ask about previous attacks.
Page 689 - ... 4. That those members of the public in charge of or in contact with sufferers from cancer with external manifestations, or discharges of any kind, need at most take the same precautionary measures as would be adopted in the care of any ulcer or open septic wound. 5. That in the care of patients with cancer there is much less danger to the attendant from any possible acquirement of cancer than there is of septic infection or blood poisoning from pus organisms.