Cleveland Medical and Surgical Reporter, Volume 20

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1912

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Page 354 - A PRACTICAL MEDICAL DICTIONARY of Words used in Medicine with Their Derivation and Pronunciation, Including Dental, Veterinary, Chemical, Botanical, Electrical, Life Insurance and Other Special Terms; Anatomical Tables of the Titles in General Use, and Those Sanctioned by the Basle Anatomical Convention; Pharmaceutical Preparations, Official in the...
Page 185 - June it is not a bad plan for the physician to take mental "stock" of the babies under his care, especially such as are bottle-fed, with the general idea of recommending such treatment as will tone up and vitalize those whose nutrition may be below par, so that they may enter the trying summer months in the best possible condition to ward off or withstand the depressing influences of extreme heat or the prostrating effects of the diarrheal disorders of the heated term. Careful attention to feeding...
Page 8 - ... modesty, or that tendency to treat as trivial small symptoms, and to at once take alarm about, and carefully investigate, every case in which there is brought to their notice an abnormality in menstruation, or a vaginal discharge of any kind, however trifling. A very grave responsibility lies at the doors of the medical profession for the small progress made in the early diagnosis of uterine cancer and its successful treatment. How constantly is the consultant told : 'I mentioned it to my doctor...
Page 195 - Faults in the life breed errors in the brain, And these, reciprocally, those again. The mind and conduct mutually imprint And stamp their image in each other's mint.
Page 48 - An earnest and cordial invitation to this meeting is extended to all members of state medical examining and licensing boards, teachers in medical schools, colleges and universities, delegates to the association of American Medical Colleges...
Page 157 - Pepto-Mangan (Gude) constitutes the ideal method of administering this essential blood-building agent in this as well as in any anemic condition. Both the iron and manganese in Pepto-Mangan are in organic combination with peptones and are therefore easily and promptly absorbed and assimilated without causing digestive derangement or producing constipation.
Page 162 - There must be in addition to ptosis of the cecum, transverse or sigmoidal colons, a condition of functional inactivity due to atony of the bowel muscle. Suspensions of ptotic colons by means of- fixation by adhesions to the abdominal wall are unnatural and interfere with peristalsis. Restoration should be accomplished by shortening the natural support, — the mesentery. Lateral anastamoses between the most dependent loops of ptotic bowel is sometimes indicated.
Page 157 - Every physician of experience appreciates the principles which should guide him in the treatment of the various acute manifestations of paludal poisoning, ie, the destruction of the plasmodial hosts which have invaded the blood and which, if not eliminated, consume and destroy the red cells, the vital element of the circulating fluid. When this purpose has once been accomplished the patient is but partly cured; the damage done to the red corpuscles must be repaired and the vitality of the blood restored,...

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