The Clinical Journal, Volume 23Edward Knight, 1904 - Clinical medicine |
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Page 128 - The American Illustrated Medical Dictionary. A new and complete dictionary of the terms used in Medicine, Surgery, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Chemistry, and kindred branches ; with over 100 new and elaborate tables and many handsome illustrations. By WA NEWMAN BORLAND, MD, Editor of " The American Pocket Medical Dictionary.
Page 128 - Chemistry, and the kindred branches, including much collateral information of an encyclopedic character, together with new and elaborate tables of Arteries, Muscles, Nerves, Veins, etc. ; of Bacilli, Bacteria, Micrococci, Streptococci ; Eponymic Tables of Diseases, Operations, Signs and Symptoms, Stains, Tests, Methods of Treatment, etc., etc. By WA NEWMAN DORLAND, AM, MD, Editor of the "American Pocket Medical Dictionary.
Page 35 - ... partly as the result of the intestinal disturbance, partly as the result of the confinement to bed, etc. As a consequence the patient's condition may be very seriously altered for the worse, and, especially in the case of a patient who has been going steadily downhill, is very emaciated, and has only a short time to live, this may be a very serious matter, and may shorten his life to a considerable extent. I do not wish it to be thought that I am in any way against exploratory operations, but...
Page 315 - Before the abdomen is opened it is quite impossible to say what operation or operations will be required, and the surgeon must be prepared to adapt himself to circumstances on discovering the position of the ulcer and the conditions associated with it, especially as to the presence or absence of adhesions and other complications. Any one of the following operations, or a combination of...
Page 314 - Bulstrode collected and analysed the statistics of all the cases admitted for gastric ulcer from the beginning of 1897 to August, 1902. They were just 500 in number, 98 men and 402 women. Out of this number...
Page 315 - I feel it incumbent to urge most strongly that, although cases of gastric ulcer should first be submitted to medical treatment, yet, if such treatment fails to cure in a reasonable time, or if relapses occur on the resumption of solid food, then medical should give place to surgical treatment ; for it is unfair to the surgeon to hand.
Page 80 - ALOIS DALLA ROSA. MD Translated from the third German edition and adapted to English and American and international terminology by M. EDEN PAUL. MD, Brux., MRCS, LRCP Part VI, Neurology, the Organs of the Senses.
Page 128 - THE PRACTICE OF OBSTETRICS. Designed for the use of Students and Practitioners of Medicine. By J. CLIFTON EDGAR, Professor of Obstetrics and Clinical Midwifery in the Cornell University Medical College...
Page 128 - ... to present the subject of midwifery from a practical and clinical standpoint, so that it will best facilitate the requirements of the student of medicine, and of the active obstetrician.
Page 313 - ... treatment. Gastric ulcer is a much more serious disease than it is ordinarily thought to be, and the profession has generally considered it more amenable to medical treatment than the facts warrant. The accuracy of the observations of Leube, who states that onehalf or three-fourths of all cases of ulcer will be cured by four or five weeks of treatment, but if not cured in that time they will not be cured by medical treatment alone, has been more than borne out by the careful investigations undertaken...