A Treatise on the Diseases of the Air Passagess: Comprising an Inquiry Into the History, Pathology, Causes and Treatment, of Those Affections of the Throat Called Bronchitis, Chronic Laryngitis, Clergyman's Sore Throat, Etc., Etc

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Wiley & Halsted, 1858 - 348 стор.
 

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Сторінка 168 - On the contrary, however well-chosen and nutritious the food, however minute the attention paid to cleanliness, with whatever care the clothing be adapted to the temperature, or the duration of exercise, sleep, and waking be regulated, — if the houses are so placed that the sun's rays cannot reach them, or the fresh air cannot be renewed without difficulty, — if, in short, they are small, low, dark, and badly aired, scrofulous disease will inevitably supervene...
Сторінка 33 - Vapors of vinegar and water were frequently inhaled, ten grains of calomel were given, succeeded by repeated doses of emetic tartar, amounting in all to five or six grains, with no other effect than a copious discharge from the bowels. The powers of life seemed now manifestly yielding to the force of the disorder. Blisters were applied to the extremities, together with a cataplasm ot bran and vinegar to the throat.
Сторінка 33 - The disease commenced with a violent ague, accompanied with some pain in the upper and fore part of the throat, a sense of stricture in the same part, a cough, and a difficult rather than a painful deglutition, which were soon succeeded by fever, and a quick and laborious respiration.
Сторінка 314 - In the treatment of both varieties of chronic laryngitis, the idiopathic and the tubercular, topical applications of the nitrate of silver solution have proved, in the hands of many practitioners, a most efficient and valuable remedy.
Сторінка 34 - Saturday night, when, retaining the full possession of his intellect, he expired without a struggle. He was fully impressed at the beginning of his complaint, as well as through every succeeding stage of it, that its conclusion would be mortal...
Сторінка 33 - ... soon succeeded by fever and a quick and laborious respiration. The necessity of blood-letting suggesting itself to the General, he procured a bleeder in the neighborhood, who took from his arm in the night twelve or fourteen ounces of blood. He...
Сторінка 34 - He was fully impressed at the beginning of his complaint, as well as through every succeeding stage of it, that its conclusion would be mortal ; submitting to the several exertions made for his recovery rather as a duty, than from any expectation of their efficacy.
Сторінка 311 - He brought me some of this sputum to examine, which consisted of mixed blood and pus, of a dirty brick-red colour. Examination of his chest again convinced me that the lungs were unaffected ; but in the interval I had paid attention to the writings and practice of Dr Horace Green, of New York ; and I now examined his throat, when the cause of his symptoms was at once apparent. The fauces and upper part of the pharynx were studded over with nodular swellings, varying in size from a pin head to that...
Сторінка 234 - ... and the head of the child being firmly held by an assistant, and the base of the tongue depressed with a spoon, or any other suitable instrument, the operator carries the wet sponge quickly over the top of the epiglottis, and on the laryngeal face of this cartilage ; then, pressing it suddenly downwards and forwards, passes it through the opening of the glottis, into the laryngeal cavity.
Сторінка iii - A TREATISE ON DISEASES OF THE AIR PASSAGES. Comprising an inquiry into the History, Pathology, Causes, and Treatment of those Affections of the Throat called Bronchitis, Chronic Laryngitis, Clergyman's Sore Throat, etc., etc.

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