The Therapeutical applications of peroxide of hydrogen ( medicinal) and glycozone, hydrozone and eye balsam

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1896 - 214 páginas
 

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Página 212 - The herewith reported case is one of double interest, inasmuch as the patient has been under my care for a number of years, and previous to the commencement of the present treatment I have been unsuccessful in affording much relief, or preventing the recurrence of the frequent and periodic attacks of migraine, to which she had been more or less subject since early womanhood, the cause of which I could not account for more than "a habit long continued," aggravated by gastric catarrh.
Página 12 - Glycozone, like peroxide of hydrogen is a powerful oxidizing agent, although its action is not as rapid or as energetic in this respect as the latter compound. Consequently we cannot safely prescribe it combined with any other drugs or chemical substances. Contact with metallic utensils decompose it.
Página 39 - Recognition of the value of cleanliness represents the most practical discovery in treatment during the present generation, and, at the same time it constitutes one of the really great discoveries in the history of medicine. The application of the principles of cleanliness more nearly meets the requirements of a real advance in curative medicine, than all the other propositions known to the profession for the cure of disease. The symptoms of typhoid fever are too well known, by all to need particular...
Página 73 - ... injurious effect upon animal cells. 2. It has a very energetic destructive action upon vegetable cells — microbes. 3. It has no toxic properties ; five cubic centimetres injected beneath the skin of a guinea-pig do not produce any serious result, and it is also harmless when given by the mouth. As an immediate conclusion resulting from my experiments, my opinion is, that Peroxide of Hydrogen should be used in the treatment of diseases caused by germs, if the microbian element is directly accessible...
Página 194 - ... law to successfully resist the entrance of every form of organism. The products of organic action alone are able to pass into the blood. If sufficient quantities of pure water, of a suitable temperature, are introduced into the body through the natural channels, it is- actually possible to wash morbid products as well as organic forms of life, out of the human body. The mouth gives entrance to the causative germs in Asiatic cholera.
Página 40 - The treatment takes hold of his reason, which lends both hope and health to the management of the case. Bathing the body is performed at regular intervals and by such a system as may be convenient and suitable to the individual. The bathtub may be used when the patient is strong enough to be assisted to it, where otherwise, sponging with cold water is very refreshing, and useful to maintain strength and lower the heat of the body. The most effective and most lasting influence is secured by wrapping...
Página 208 - Traitement des rctrecissements par r electrolysis lineaire (this book can be procured at the library of the Academy of Medicine), they may find it quite interesting, as it will enable them to understand the improvements which have gradually been introduced in the applications of electrolysis to surgery during the last fifteen years. They will also understand how I have applied electrolysis to the treatment of strictures of the urethra, uterus, rectum, and esophagus.
Página iii - The quantity of free acids contained in 100 cubic centimetres should require not less than 1 cc and not more than 3 cc of normal volumetric soda solution, to be made neutral. Such a small quantity of free acid is not objectionable. 3. It should not contain any soluble baryta salts. 4. It must be free from sediment.
Página 183 - The individual will dictate us alterations and modifications in our treatment. A general plan of treatment may be outlined, however, and I will try to do so in regard to one of the most fatal diseases of babyhood — cholera infantum. There is a certain philosophy in therapeutics which I would frame in the three following rules: First, remove, if possible, the disturbing causes; second, treat symptoms which, per se, are liable to endanger the life of the patient; and third, sustain vitality.
Página 183 - As soon as called to a case of cholera infantum, prohibit for the first day any food whatever. Mothers have no right to nurse the little patient either. Strict instructions must be given in that direction, because the timid mothers are often inclined to quiet the crying babies by putting them to the breast. Remedies are of very little value. Beginning with calomel, salol, and all the newer antiseptics, finishing with subnitrate of bismuth — they have all proved a failure, for none of them work...

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