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abdominal Acidi acute alkaline anæmia antiseptic aperient applied Aquæ attacks bismuth blood bowel cæcum calomel cancer carbonatis cardiac castor oil catarrh cause chloroformi chronic gastric catarrh colic constipation creasote diarrhoea diet digestion digitalis dilatation dilute disease distension dram dyspepsia effect enema enemata epigastrium especially Ewald excite Extracti fæcal fermentation fiat mistura flatulent fluid Formulæ frequently gargle gastralgia gastric juice gastric ulcer give given glycerine grains hæmorrhage hydrochloric acid hypodermic injection irritation meal milk minims Misce mist mixture morbid morphine mouth mucous membrane mucus muscular obstruction occur operation opii opium ounce pain patient peritonitis pharyngitis pill powder pulv Pulveris pylorus quinine rectal rectum relieved remedy rheumatic secretion small doses small intestine Sodii bicarbonatis sodium bicarbonate solution sometimes stomach stricture sulphate surface surgical symptoms tablespoonful taken teaspoonful throat Tincturæ tion tonic tonsillitis treatment tube usually vomica vomiting warm water washing
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Page 655 - We employ it nowadays much more than we did a few years ago, but more often late in the disease than early. To bleed at the very onset in robust, healthy individuals in whom the disease sets in with great intensity and high fever is, I believe, a good practice.
Page 192 - The best and easiest way to test the motor function of the stomach is to examine this organ by means of the tube and lavage in the morning in the fasting condition after the ingestion of a substantial supper on the night previous. Normally the stomach is empty, and therefore when the organ is found to contain a quantity of food, this is the best sign of retarded motion.
Page 250 - The doses he has employed have varied, according to the age of the child and the severity of the attack, from 2 to 30 grains in the twenty-four hours.
Page 453 - ... distension of the stomach and intestines. 3. To forbid the* habitual consumption of agents which may exercise a toxic action on the heart, such as tea, coffee, tobacco, alcohol, etc., or that may introduce or- develop toxines in the alimentary canal.
Page 4 - The white spots are probably an exudation from the free surface of the mucous membrane beneath the epithelium; these spots are thrown off, and raw excoriated surfaces left. They occur on the anterior half of the tongue, on the inner surface of the lips and cheeks, and on the hard palate ; they are round. about the size of lentils, often numerous and apt to run together into confluent irregular patches. There is usually abundant mucous catarrh of the mouth, and increased salivation.
Page 157 - The attack lasts from a few minutes to half an hour ; then the pain gradually subsides, leaving the patient much exhausted ; or else it ceases suddenly with eructation of gas or watery fluid, with vomiting, with a gentle soft perspiration, or with the passage of reddish urine.
Page 321 - The decoction is prepared by boiling one ounce of the plant in a pint and a half of water down to a pint, of which a wineglassful usually operates as an emetic and cathartic.
Page 452 - The true indications for treatment in angina pectoris are thus summarized: 1. To maintain or improve, when defective, the general nutrition; to avoid all strain, physical and emotional; and so to relieve cardiac feebleness and excessive effort. 2. To relieve dyspeptic conditions and flatulent or faecal distension of the stomach and intestines.
Page 513 - the changes we find in the adenoid tissues and lymphatic glands are most easily explained by assuming that they are the result of the action of some pathogenetic parasite," and this view he considers receives support from the fact that this disease appears in cattle, dogs, horses, and other animals. Organisms have been found in the enlarged glands by some observers, but no definite conclusions on this head are at present warranted. The disease seems to have some ill-defined relationship to tubercle.
Page 464 - Entire fnmilies sometimes show this tendency to early arteriosclerosis — a tendency which cannot be explained in any other way than that in the make-up of the machine bad material was used for the tubing.