The Practitioner's Handbook of Treatment, Or, The Principles of Therapeutics

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Lea, 1877 - 575 páginas
 

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Compensatory action of organs
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Sequences in medical measures The building of a prescription
28
Combined prescriptions
29
Effects of compensatory activity on the organs so engaged
30
Anæmia from imperfect excretion Specific hæmatics
31
Adjuncts
32
Hygienic arrangements accompaniments
33
The choice of remedies
34
CHAPTER II
35
Normal temperature
36
The effects of saliva of the gastric juice of pancreatine Intestinal absorption The function of the liver
37
Sialogogues
38
Digestion Artificial aids Pepsine
39
Effects of high temperature on the brain
40
Stomachics Alkalies Bitters
41
Depressants Antimony Aconite Veratrum Action of alcohol as an apyretic
42
Quinine and digitalis
43
Action of the pancreas Effects of ether Pancreatic emulsion
44
Intestinal action Purgatives
46
Hæmatics Lime Iron Combinations Specifics in specific anæmia
47
Value of water Dilution Tissue Bathing Mineral waters
51
Tonicsmental material Aromatic Astringent Combinations of
53
Change of air Cold water
57
CHAPTER XI
75
Hyperæmia Its treatment
94
SECT PAGE 48 Calomel and opium Local applications
120
Convalescence its management
121
Asthenic inflammation its treatment
124
Specific inflammations and their management
127
Parenchymatous inflammations their course
130
Their treatment
132
Inflammatory products their indications
133
CHAPTER VI
135
Indications for treatment
137
Specific anæmia
140
Plethora its causal associations
141
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Congestion its forms and causes
147
Edema its causation in relation to treatment
152
CHAPTER VII
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THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
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Bronchitis in children Colds
158
Imperfect tissue growth Oil inunctions Struma Tubercle Syphilis Indications for management
159
Dyspepsia how occasioned
161
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Indications for treatment Diet Alcohol Clothes
167
Purgatives in intestinal stricture in the aged and at the menopause
168
Nutrition nervous and vascular
169
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CHAPTER VIII
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Pathological but perfect connective tissue
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Importance of fat Food Codliver oil Climate
188
Hectic fever its treatment Effects of rest Preventive measures
192
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Therapeutic indications
196
CHAPTER IX
199
Remedial agents their action Antiseptics
202
Specific poisons Malaria its seat
204
ོཅཟ 83
206
Vascular cerebral hyperæmia Its management
208
Cholera its nature and treatment
209
Specific fevers their general management
210
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Delirium Its varieties Their treatment Moral management Remedial measures 470
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Influenza its treatment
214
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Affections of the spinal cord Varieties of Treatment of each
216
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Chorea Its forms
218
Hysteria Its varieties and their management
219
Hemorrhage its management Other discharges their treatment
220
Public hygiene Its importance
221
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Water Effects of impure water
223
The theory of stimulants
224
Pythogenesis Disinfection Sewer gas Special disinfection n Nurses
225
Infection Medical men
226
Fever hospitals cottage and other
227
Circumstances modifying the action of stimulants Secondary effects of excessive stimulation
228
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Alcohol as a food its other actions its use in convalescence
230
Baths Cold warm hot sand mud peat
232
Change of air in India Sir Joseph Fayrer
233
The relations of acute and chronic disease Acute disease becoming chronic its indications
234
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Chronic disease becoming acute
239
DIABETES RHEUMATISM GOUT SECT PAGE 102 Diabetes its origin forms of relation to Brights disease
241
Treatmenthygienic dietetic and medicinal
244
Rheumatism what is it?
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The gouty diathesis
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The inflammatory process Means of controlling it Vascular de pressants
271
The strumous diathesis
272
Treatment of the stage betwixt the inflammatory rise and convales cence Therapeutic and dietetic management 117
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The lymphatic diathesis
276
The hemorrhagic diathesis Blends
277
Cachexia The syphilitic cachexia its importance in treatment
278
Mercury and iodine in syphilis
280
Lead poisoning
283
CHAPTER XIII
284
Opium its action on different centres on the vascular system on the nervous system in the relief of pain
285
Effect on motor and secretory actions
290
Hydrate of chloral
291
Bromide of potassium
293
The use of these several agents
296
Astringents their combinations with sedatives
298
Inaction Belladonna Cannabis Indica
300
Quinine and strychnine their use
302
Combination of neurotics in practice
305
Irritation and counterirritation External use of sedatives
306
THE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM SECT PAGE 134 Groups of maladies
311
Bloodpressure effects of agents upon
312
Compensatory changes in valvular lesions
314
Cardiac failure
315
Treatment of Cardiac adynamy Rest and the removal of causes of irritation
316
Cathartics Diaphoretics Diuretics Hot poultices
317
Means of acting directly upon the heart Digitalis its action and its use
319
Apparent objections to its use explained The socalled cumulative action
322
Relief of consequential ailments Dropsy Diuretics their action combinations of
323
The dietary
326
Secondary affections of the heart Angina pectoris imperfect forms of treatment of
330
Neurosal affections of the heart Palpitation Irritable heart
332
Anæmic disturbances
333
Importance of accurate diagnosis in treatment
335
147a Aneurism
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CHAPTER XV
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The treatment of catarrh
341
Affections of the airtubes The theory of expectorants Forms of bronchitis Its treatment
342
Bronchitis and asthma
344
Affections of the lung structure Pneumonia its management Asthenic pneumonia
347
Localized pneumonia Nutrition
349
Treatment general and special
351
Bronchopneumonia
353
Pleuritic effusion its treatment
355
Cough its varieties and their treatment
356
Dyspnoea forms of and treatment
360
Hæmoptysis
361
Enteritis Opium
378
CHAPTER XVII
387
Acute nephritis its treatment
393
Its treatment Action of the skin
401
Fluids
407
CHAPTER XVIII
411
In relation to the nervous system
412
Anaphrodisiacs
413
Blenorrhagia in both sexes Its management
415
Puberty in girls Points in practice
417
The menopause
419
Amenorrhoeaits forms their treatment
420
Menorrhagia its varieties and treatment
422
Dysmenorrhoea
426
CHAPTER XIX
428
Skin diseases their causation and general management
434
Their relations to the stomach uterus liver and kidneys
436
Syphilida Their treatment
439
Neurosal skin affections
440
Injuries and parasites Their treatment
441
Corns Warts
442
Ulcers Principles of treatment
443
NOTE Fetid feet
445
CHAPTER XX
446
Theory of absorbents Iodine Mercury Their applications in practice
448
Inflammation of the lymphatics
451
Glandular suppuration
453
Passive accumulations
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SECT PAGE 235 Respiratory and plastic foods Nitrogenized food
521
Hydrocarbons Forceproducing material Effects of foods Forms of diet
524
The relations of food to disease Bantingism
529
The diet in lithiasis
532
In combined lithiasis and diabetes
534
Drinks Milk beeftea ricewater c
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As stimulants
539
As beverages As water
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As a means of affecting temperature
542
Diet cures Grape strawberry milk whey and koumiss cures Substitutes for milk
544
CHAPTER XXIV
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What to observe
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The manner of the examination
549
Our social conduct
552
The natural history of disease
555
As instanced in the relation of Brights disease to the circulation
557
To be forewarned is to be forearmed
561
The future and our duty
562
APPENDIX
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