A Text-book of Practical Therapeutics: With Especial Reference to the Application of Remedial Measures to Disease and Their Employment Upon a Rational BasisLea & Febiger, 1909 - 958 pages |
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Page 612 - ... 8. During the beginning of this treatment not even water should be given by mouth, the thirst being quenched by rinsing the mouth with cold water and by the use of small enemata. Later small sips of very hot water frequently repeated may be given, and still later small sips of cold water. There is danger in giving water too freely, and there is great danger in the use of large enemata.
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Page 612 - All practitioners of medicine and surgery, as well as the general public, should be impressed with the importance of prohibiting the use of cathartics and food by mouth, as well as the use of large enemata, in cases suffering from acute appendicitis.
Page 103 - Trioxide occurs either as an opaque, white powder, or in irregular masses of two varieties: one, amorphous, transparent, and colorless, like glass; the other, crystalline, opaque, and white, resembling porcelain. Frequently the same piece has an opaque, white outer crust enclosing the glassy variety.
Page 588 - Mix the eggs with a little of the milk, and warm the butter with the other portion ; then stir the whole well together, adding a little nutmeg and ginger, or any other agreeable spice.
Page 587 - ... then spread it thinly on a dish, and place it in a slow oven ; if put in at night, let it remain until the morning, when, if perfectly dry and crisp, it will be fit for grinding. The bran thus prepared must be ground...
Page 126 - It occurs as a colorless or pale buff-colored, shining crystalline lamina; or as a white or yellowish-white crystalline powder, having a faint phenol-like odor and a sharp and pungent but not persistent taste.
Page 571 - This apparatus can be thoroughly sterilized by boiling. The solution in cases of hemorrhage is made by adding a teaspoonful of common salt to a pint of boiled water. For eclampsia the same amount of equal parts of bicarbonate of potash and common salt is used. The temperature should be 100°.
Page 180 - The primary action of the chloroform is to depress the bloodpressure chiefly by its vasomotor effect; secondly, by its cardiac effect ; and, finally, that while the drug does exercise a depressant effect on the respiratory centre the failure of this centre is chiefly due to anaemia.
Page 179 - On the contrary, the cause of death from chloroform is usually vasomotor depression, whereby the arterioles allow the blood to pass too freely into the great bloodvessel areas which are found in the capillaries and veins, and as a result the man is suddenly bled into his own vessels as effectually as if into a bowl.