The Epitome: A Monthly Retrospect of American Practical Medicine and Surgery, Volume 7W. A. Townsend., 1886 - Medicine Containing a retrospective view of every discovery and practical improvement in the medical sciences, abstracted from the current medical journals of the United States and Canada. |
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Page 478 - ... the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat, as well as for eliminating the dangers to life and limb which now surround us.
Page 499 - Auxiliary instruments, as galvanometer, etc., are important to the expert, but not necessary for the beginner. (4) For the positive pole a carbon electrode is used, covered with sponge, moistened with hot water, and held firmly against the cutaneous surface of the patient's hand, thigh, or abdomen.
Page 636 - The most important Remedial Agent ever presented to the Profession for DYSPEPSIA, VOMITING IN PREGNANCY, CHOLERA INFANTUM, CONSTIPATION, AND ALL DISEASES ARISING FROM IMPERFECT NUTRITION.
Page 6 - I : 1000 ; recommended only for the hands, or for washing away infectious material from a limited area, not as a bath for the entire surface of the body. FOR THE DEAD. Envelop the body in a sheet thoroughly saturated with : — 1. Chloride of lime in solution, 4 per cent. 2. Mercuric chloride in solution, I : 500.
Page 6 - I per cent. 3. Solution of carbolic acid, 2 per cent. For the Person. The hands and general surface of the body of attendants, of the sick, and of convalescents at the time of their discharge from hospital : 1.
Page 372 - LACTOPEPTINE. The most important Remedial Agent ever presented to the Profession, for DYSPEPSIA, VOMITING IN PREGNANCY, CHOLERA INFANTUM, CONSTIPATION, and all diseases arising from imperfect nutrition.
Page 526 - Water is, perhaps-, the most powerful diuretic which we possess, although fewer experiments have been made with it upon animals than with the others. The diuretic action of water drunk by a healthy man is very marked, and it appears impossible to explain its elimination by a mere increase in blood pressure, whether general or local.
Page 320 - Hydrangea" represents thirty grains of FRESH HYDRANGEA, and three grains of CHEMICALLY PURE Benzo-Salicylate of Lithia. Prepared by our improved process of osmosis, it is INVARIABLY of DEFINITB and UNIFORM therapeutic strength, and hence can be depended upon in clinical practice. DOSE. — One or two teaspoonfuls four times a day (preferably between meals...