A Medical Treatise on the Causes and Curability of Consumption, Laryngitis, Chronic Catarrh and Diseases of the Air-passages: Combining the Treatment by Inhalation of Medicated Vapors; Also a New and Accurate Method for the Diagnosis of Consumption ...Damrell & Welch, 1862 - 227 من الصفحات |
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air-cells Air-Passages aorta appearance appetite arteries Asthma attention becomes bladder blood vessels body bowels brain breathing BROADBENT Bronchial Consumption bronchial tubes called catarrh cause cavities cells CHAPTER chest chronic cold complaint condition continued costiveness cough curable cure daily death debility derangement diarrhoea digestion disease dropsy drugs dyspepsia eating effects epiglottis epilepsy epileptics erysipelas excited exist expectoration fatal fauces feel fever fluid form of Consumption frequently functions glands habit heart human inflammation inhalation irritation kidneys known larynx liver lungs lymphatic manifested matter medicine mesmeric morbid mucous membrane nasal fossas nature nerves nervous night nose nostrils observation organs pain palpitation patient person Phrenology phthisis physician poison produce pulmonary quantity remedies right auricle scrofula secretion side skin sleep smoke sometimes soon soreness spitting stage stomach suffering sumption swelling symp symptoms take place throat tion tissue tobacco treatment tubercles tubercular deposits ulceration usually vapor
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الصفحة 97 - During the tumult, some neighbors came in and separated the men. While in this state of strong excitement, the mother took up her child from the cradle, where it lay playing, and in the most perfect health, never having had a moment's illness ; she gave it the breast, and in so doing sealed its fate. In a few minutes the infant left off sucking, became restless, panted, and sank dead upon its mother's bosom.
الصفحة 105 - THE SKIN AND ITS OFFICES. In order to insure perfect health, great attention should be paid to the state of the skin. The skin is the external covering of the body, and is to man a natural clothing. There are yet some nations of the earth known to exist without wearing any artificial clothing whatever. I mention this as merely showing the amount of protection derived from tlj^ skin.
الصفحة 152 - ... from being ill. In this case, the proper course is to seek professional advice, and to employ the means best adapted for the restoration of health, after which sleep will return as before. From not attending to the true origin of the restlessness, however, and regarding it merely as a state troublesome to all parties, many mothers and nurses are in the habit of resorting immediately to laudanum, sedative drops, poppy syrup, spirits, and other means of forcing sleep, without regard to their effects...
الصفحة 152 - ... present themselves. A healthy child, properly treated, and not unduly excited, will always be ready for sleep at the usual time ; and, when it appears excited or restless, we may infer with certainty that some active cause has made it so, and should try to find it.
الصفحة 98 - No. 516), that having removed a small tumour from behind the ear of a mother, all went well until she fell into a violent passion ; and the child, being suckled soon afterwards, died in convulsions. He was sent- for hastily to see another child in convulsions, after taking the breast of a nurse who had just been severely reprimanded ; and he was informed by Sir Richard Croft, that he had seen many similar instances.
الصفحة 13 - pathological anatomy has perhaps never afforded more conclusive evidence in proof of the curability of a disease than it has in that of tubercular phthisis.
الصفحة 31 - With step as noiseless as the summer air, Who comes in beautiful decay? -her eyes Dissolving with a feverish glow of light, Her nostrils delicately closed, and on Her cheek a rosy tint, as if the tip Of Beauty's finger faintly press'd it there, — Alas! CONSUMPTION is her name.
الصفحة 126 - ... limbs, and the patient falls. Respiration is suspended, and the face becomes quite injected with black blood, and assumes a hideous aspect both from the spasms of its muscles and the blackish or bluish hue. Sometimes a momentary relaxation is then observed in the limbs ; but almost at once clonic convulsions occur everywhere in the trunk, the limbs, the face, and often in the various internal organs of the bladder, the bowels, and even in the uterus. The month then ejects a frothy saliva, often...
الصفحة 181 - Christ, ascribed the curative properties in the magnet to a soul with which he supposed it to be endowed, and without which he also supposed no kind of motion could take place. Pliny also affirms the magnet to be useful in curing diseases of the eyes, scalds, and burns ; and Celsus. a philosopher of the first century after Christ, speaks of a physician by the name of Asclepiades. who soothed the ravings of the insane by manipulations, and he adds that his manual operations, when continued for some...
الصفحة 149 - ... said to be much more obstinate among seamen in vessels that are not provided with suitable ventilation. The mortality in hospitals has been found to be very much decreased since means have been adopted to purify the wards by the only healthy process of introducing fresh air. Sir James Clarke asserts that " living in an impure atmosphere is even more influential in deteriorating health than defective food, and that the immense mortality among children and in workhouses is ascribable more to the...