The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences: Being a Digest of British and Continental Medicine, and of the Progess of Medicine and the Collateral Sciences, Volume 36J. Churchill, 1863 - Medicine |
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Page 341 - and expelled the air by spasmodic action. It was further observed that the abdominal muscles materially assisted in producing this result; and although the patient has not the power of commencing the action, once it has begun and gone on for a few minutes, she has the power of continuing it.
Page 272 - is cut, which is easily done, as the broad part of the blade becomes a director to the knife; and rather than lacerate, I have often repeated this enlargement of the inner wound two or three times." At the same time, it is always to be remembered that the
Page 346 - disease, in which medicated pessaries are of great service, the communication ended with certain formulae which the author was in the habit of prescribing. The following are examples:— Mercurial ointment, four scruples; extract of belladonna, one scruple ; cacao butter, four drachms ; olive oil, one drachm. Mix; divide into four pessaries, and order one to be introduced into the vagina every night.
Page 272 - cases at Norwich with only two deaths, writes, in that brief and simple account of his method which he presented to the Medical and Chirurgical Society in 1821 :—" Should the stone be large, or there be any difficulty in the extraction, rather than use much force, while the forceps have a firm hold of the stone, I give the
Page 165 - Warm the glycerine, stir in the starch, add the tar, and raise the, mixture rapidly to the boiling point. Strain through a cloth, if necessary, and stir whilst cooling. The mere mixture of glycerine and tar heated in a water-bath, gives on cooling a spongy mass, the pores of which
Page 334 - alike to very many different" blood" diseases. 5. Obstruction to the main lymphatic channels alone is capable of giving rise to white leg, and acts by preventing the removal of the lymph from the affected limb. 6. The obstruction may be the result of (a) extrinsic pressure;
Page 299 - and others—had to solve: namely, how to deliver a woman with deformed pelvis without instruments. That they did accomplish in many instances with the unarmed hand what we now do by the aid of various weapons there can be no doubt. If this implies greater poverty of resources on their part, it not
Page 215 - of dead bone, which was removed. The necrosis involved the front part of the floor of the orbit, the upper cheek portion of the superior maxilla, with the infraorbital foramen, and a large plate of bone from the inner (nasal) wall of the antrum. The removal
Page 319 - Ploson, living in the village of Dropin, in Bessarabia, was delivered of six daughters (the fruit of one pregnancy) all living, and only a little smaller than the usual size of children at birth, with the exception of the last, which was much the least. The mother is not quite twenty years
Page 72 - beats per minute. 4. It caused profuse sweating, which exhaled an intolerable odour of snuff, not of tobacco. 6. It failed to control quickly the adductor muscles supplied by the obturator nerve; and even when the hamstring muscles gave way, the adductors refused. 5. It had a tendency to produce deep sleep.