Diseases of the nervous system

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Boericke & Tafel, 1881 - 409 páginas
 

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Página 294 - It never occurs spontaneously, and its production is confined to the vicinity of a line drawn from the umbilicus to the anterior superior spine of the ilium...
Página 7 - DR. GHG Diseases of the Skin ; or, Alphabetical Repertory of the Skin Symptoms, and External Alterations of Substance, together with the Morbid Phenomena observed in the Glandular, Osseous, Mucous, and Circulatory Symptoms. Arranged with Pathological Remarks on Diseases of the Skin.
Página 136 - That syphilitic hemiplegia occurs, as a rule, without loss of consciousness, even when the attack is sudden ; but that the paralysis usually comes on gradually, the patient being under forty years of age, and having had fixed constant headache for some time before the attack.
Página 410 - Medical Companion, or the Family Physician. Containing the Principal Remedies for the most important Diseases; Symptoms, Sensations, Characteristics of Diseases, etc. ; with the principal Pathogenetic Effects of the Medicines on the most important Organs and Functions of the Body, together with Diagnosis, Explanation of Technical Terms, Directions for the Selection and Exhibition of Remedies, Rules of Diet, etc. Compiled from the best Homoeopathic authorities.
Página 390 - ... greatest danger of that disease. So that we come to this — which may seem paradoxical and immoral too — that a man who both eats and drinks too much is in less danger than a man who commits only one of those excesses. The double fault is less mischievous than the single ; the eating counteracts the harm that would ensue from the drinking. If we look about in society we may see this very plainly. There are still many persons habitually engaged in too great eating and drinking, doing both to...
Página 199 - the patient persists in his attempt, the more the difficulty of using his pen increases ; and to the visible and sensible contractions of the muscles of the thumb, contractions of the forearm, and even of the upper arm, are often superadded. Abnormal sensations, especially of a sense of weight and constriction of the hand, or of pain extending from the upper arm to the back, are occasionally present It is diagnostic of these attacks that they are instantly arrested when the individual ceases writing;...
Página 2 - GUERNSEY, DR. HN The Application of the Principles and Practice of Homoeopathy to Obstetrics and the Disorders Peculiar to Women and Young Children. By HENRY N. GUERNSEY. MD, Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children in the Homœopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, etc., etc.
Página 301 - One bullet struck him on the upper portion of the breastbone, glancing and not penetrating; the second bullet penetrated the abdomen five inches below the left nipple and one and a half inches to the left of the median line. The abdomen was opened through the line of the bullet wound. It was found that the bullet had penetrated the stomach. The opening in the front wall of the stomach was...
Página 351 - Crime is a sort of outlet in which their unsound tendencies are discharged ; they would go mad if they were not criminals, and they do not go mad because they are criminals.
Página 126 - ... pieces of pasteboard moistened with a solution of muriate of ammonia. He employed slips of brown paper moistened, as a conductor on which the naked feet of the patient were placed, and at the moment when he opened his mouth to bite, one end of the arc was thrust into it, while the other communicated with the pile. The patient suffered a great deal from this operation, which, after several shocks, weakened him so much that he could no longer support it. Being stretched out on the floor, he was...

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