The Medical Tribune: A Monthly Magazine, Volume 8Medical Tribune Company, 1892 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
abdomen acid action administered animals annual meeting antipyretic antiseptic appear attended become believe bladder blood body bowels called canal cause cavity cervix cholera chronic committee condition cure digestion Diphtheria disease doctor doses drugs Eclectic Medical Association Eclectic Medical Society Eclectic physicians effect epidemic examination fact favorable fistula frequently give glaucoma Grippe Gunn hemorrhage hemorrhoids Homeopathic inflammation irritation locomotor ataxia matter Medical Journal MEDICAL TRIBUNE medicine membrane ment method months morning mucous mucous membrane National Eclectic Medical nerve nervous operation organs pain patient pepsin physician piperazine practice practitioner present President produce Prof profession rectum remedy removed secretary small-pox specific stomach stricture suffering symptoms syphilis temperature tetanus therapeutic tincture tion tissue treated treatment tumor tympanites typhoid fever ulceration urethra urethrotomy urine usually uterine uterus vaccination weeks Whitney York
Popular passages
Page 194 - ... hand, and it richly deserves and perpetuates the enviable reputation which its predecessors have made for selection of material, accuracy of statement, and great usefulness. The corps of department editors is representative in every respect. Numerous illustrations, many of which are in colors, make the "Annual...
Page 289 - When the mind with great earnestness, and of choice, fixes its view on any idea, considers it on all sides, and will not be called off by the ordinary solicitation of other ideas, it is that we call intention or study.
Page 417 - This popular day-book is now in its sixteenth year of publication. It is good for thirteen months from the first of any month that it may be begun, and accommodates charges for fifty patients daily for that time, besides having cash department, and complete obstetric records.
Page 204 - This percentage of increase, when compared with the percentage of increase of population in the last decade, namely, 24.86, does not indicate an increase in the proportion of insane persons to population, but rather a great increase in the amount of asylum accommodation provided, and a willingness on the part of the public to make full use of all the facilities thus provided.
Page 77 - The canula is now bent to the required curvature and introduced, when the syringe, filled with tepid water, is screwed on, and the surface thoroughly cleansed of all extraneous matter. This step is not only essential, but serves to allay timidity or dread of the subsequent operation. Next, by pressure, the fistula in its whole extent should be dried out, and the iodine will thus come in direct contact with its walls. Introduce now into the speculum a quantity of carded cotton. This will absorb any...
Page 354 - The author's experience is confirmatory of the statements which have been put forth regarding the exceptional power of this agent to arrest the vomiting of pregnancy. It can be administered in inflammatory conditions of the mucous membrane, as it has no 'irritant effect. Under ordinary circumstances, and when the object of its administration is to promote the digestive function, it should be administered after meals. When the object is to arrest the vomiting of pregnancy, it should be given before...
Page 194 - New Inventions in Instruments and Appliances, Books of the Year, etc. The arrangement of the work is alphabetical, and with its complete index, makes it a reference book of rare worth. In short, the "Annual...
Page 76 - After exploring the fistula with a very small probe (the ordinary probe of the pocket-case is far too large), after determining its course and extent, the patient is to be placed in a good light and a glass rectal speculum introduced, with its fenestrum opposite the internal orifice of the fistula. The canula is now bent to the required curvature and introduced, when the syringe, filled with tepid water, is screwed on, and the surface thoroughly cleansed of all extraneous matter. This step is not...
Page 401 - ... entirely depart without risk to body and mind. The training of the muscular reflexes should go hand in hand with the cultivation of simple, natural, beneficent reactions in the higher planes. Cheerfulness, sincerity, industry, perseverance and unselfishness may be acquired by practice and constant repetition, as much as the art of correct speaking or of playing the piano, and are far more necessary to health.
Page 129 - There was certainly something more than instinct in that action: he evidently betrayed a consciousness of having done wrong both by his first and last actions — and what is reason if that is not an exercise of it?" The most elaborate account of the natural history of the ORANGUTAN extant, is that given in the "Verhandelingen over de Natuurlijke Geschiedenis der Nederlandsche overzeesche Bezittingen (1839-45),