The Canada Medical Record, Volumen1

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J. Lovell & Son., 1873

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Página 82 - Then give place to the physician, for the Lord hath created him: let him not go from thee, for thou hast need of him.
Página 168 - A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON URINARY AND RENAL DISEASES, including Urinary Deposits. Illustrated by numerous cases and engravings.
Página 203 - ... and lime-water (equal parts), whey with cream, or milk and water thickened with isinglass,* or with Liebig's food for infants, in the proportion of one teaspoonful to four ounces of fluid. By using these different preparations a certain variety can be introduced into the diet, and the meals should be so regulated that the quantity taken on each occasion, and the length of the interval by which the meals are separated, may be properly proportioned to one another and to the state of the patient....
Página 53 - Alcohol does not act as a food; it does not nourish tissues. It may diminish waste by altering the consistence and chemical properties of fluids and solids. It cuts short the life of rapidly growing bioplasm, or causes it to live more slowly'; and thus tends to cause a diseased texture, in which vital changes are abnormally active, to return to its normal and much less active condition. 3. In
Página 98 - I may say without any failure, except in two cases, where deep sinuses had formed which could not be reached by the apparatus. A thin silver plate, no thicker than a sheet of paper, is cut to the exact size and shape of the bed-sore, a zinc plate of about the same size is connected with the silver plate by...
Página 27 - ... opinion that no medical practitioner should prescribe it without, a sense of grave responsibility. They believe that alcohol, in whatever form, should be prescribed with as much care as any powerful drug...
Página 82 - For of the most High cometh healing, and he shall receive honour of the king. The skill of the physician shall lift up his head : and in the sight of great men he shall be in admiration.
Página 165 - Let the cook understand that the virtue of beef-tea is to contain all the contents and flavors of lean beef in a dilute form ; and its vices are to be sticky and strong, and to set in too hard a jelly when cold. When sh.e understands this, let her take half a pound of fresh-killed beef for every pint of tea she wants, and carefully remove all fat, sinew, veins, and bone. Let it be cut up into pieces under an inch square, and set to soak for twelve hours in one third of the water required to be made...
Página 68 - ... mercury. If they wished for a perfect cure, this treatment must be continued. In general, it was not persisted in long enough ; it was dropped as soon as the symptoms disappeared, or a short time after, and then it was not astonishing to see them reappear. But if the treatment were continued five or six months, having regard at the same time to sustaining the constitution in general, relapses would be found to be infrequent. He observed very few cases of relapse, and there would not be many when...
Página 41 - I have seen the hemorrhoidal tumors sometimes become very large during the labor. Dewees says : " Much may be done during labor to prevent a severe spell of piles by the accoucheur making a firm pressure upon the verge of the anus with the palm of his hand, guarded by a diaper, during the progress of the head through the external parts, and by carefully returning them after the expulsion of the placenta, as the sphincter is now fatigued, and will not oppose their descent.

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