The Medical and Surgical Reporter, Volume 75

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Crissy & Markley, Printers, 1896 - Medicine

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Page 426 - And when the child was grown, it fell on a day that he went out to his father to the reapers. And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother. And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.
Page 441 - DIET FOR THE SICK. Contributed by Miss E. Hibbard, Principal of Nurses' Training School, Grace Hospital, Detroit, and Mrs. Emma Drant, Matron of Michigan College of Medicine Hospital, Detroit. Second Edition, enlarged. Limp cloth, i6mo., 100 pages.
Page 24 - ... if any person riding any horse or beast, or driving any sort of carriage, shall ride or drive the same furiously so as to endanger the life or limb of any passenger...
Page 594 - In addition, however, to the preliminary treatment of the stomach, the same solution (one to thirty-two) is used as an injection into the lower bowel, care being exercised to insure its introduction as high up as possible. This can be managed by having the patient lie on the left side, with the hips well elevated, and the employment of a long, flexible rectal tube. In this manner we secure and maintain an antiseptic condition in both the stomach and large intestine, the importance of which will be...
Page 440 - Former Instructor in Diseases of Children at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital: Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, etc.
Page 593 - I published a paper giving a detailed account of several cases in which it had been employed by inhalation, but even then I was thirty years behind the report of Dr. (now Sir) Benjamin Ward Richardson, of London, who had made a thorough investigation of its antiseptic, •detergent, and healing properties. Notwithstanding the fact that this preparation had been known to the medical profession for that length of time it had achieved little or no reputation. This however, may be explained by the fact...
Page 149 - The general mortality in the 5,794 cases reported was 12.3 per cent. ; excluding the cases moribund at the time of injection or dying within twenty-four hours, it was 8.8 per cent. 8. The most striking improvement was seen in the cases injected during the first three days.
Page 467 - Journal emphasizes the fact that the bladder, when partially paralyzed from parturition, or any other cause, can always be made to empty itself perfectly by throwing a large amount of very warm water into the bowel, thereby doing away with the necessity of using a catheter — a most important consideration, particularly when the patient lives at a distance from the doctor. After difficult and protracted labors...
Page 26 - I have opened more than one body where a part was left adherent to the uterus, and where, on making a longitudinal section of the organs and examining the cut edges, I could not determine the boundary line between the uterus and the placenta, so intimate a union had taken place between them.
Page 1 - ... is evidently insufficient, but points strongly to aortic disease in which the coronaries are often affected. At the end of the last century a few, at least, of the choicer spirits of medicine had a knowledge of myocardial disease by no means inconsiderable, and far in advance of their knowledge of valvular disease. The most illustrious example of this is furnished by the oft-cited case of John Hunter. The acute Jenner correctly diagnosed the calcification of the coronary arteries and referred...

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