A Guide to the Treatment of Disease Without Alcoholic Liquors

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Jarrold and Sons, 1863 - 178 oldal
 

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67. oldal - is a definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistences and sequences.
96. oldal - Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?
65. oldal - A single act of intoxication may also predispose to typhus. I have known several instances of persons exposed for months to the poison in its most concentrated form, who were not attacked until immediately after a debauch.
120. oldal - ... periods or under circumstances of famine and destitution. Its symptoms are: more or less sudden invasion marked by rigors or chilliness; frequent, compressible pulse; tongue furred and ultimately dry and brown; bowels, in most cases, constipated ; skin warm and dry ; a rubeoloid rash appearing between the fourth and seventh days, the spots never appearing in successive crops, at first slightly elevated, and disappearing on pressure, but, after the second day, persistent, and often becoming converted...
50. oldal - A second result is a rapid disintegration of the nitrogenous tissues into substances of a simpler chemical construction, while little or no fresh material is assimilated to compensate for the loss. Increased temperature, great muscular prostration, and loss of weight are the natural consequences. 4.
120. oldal - A disease attacking persons of all ages generated by contagion, or by overcrowding of human beings, with deficient ventilation, and prevailing in epidemic form, in periods or under circumstances of famine and destitution. Its symptoms are : more or less sudden invasion marked by rigors or chilliness; frequent, compressible pulse; tongue furred and ultimately dry and brown; bowels, in most cases, constipated; skin warm and dry ; a rubeoloid rash...
120. oldal - ... low and wandering; tendency to stupor and coma, tremors, subsultus, and involuntary evacuations, with contracted pupils. Duration of the fever from ten to twenty-one days, usually fourteen. In the dead body no specific lesion ; but...
50. oldal - The retrograde metamorphosis of the muscles and other tissues is increased, while, at the same time, little or no fresh material is assimilated to compensate for the loss. Increased temperature, great muscular prostration, and loss of weight are the results. 4. The destruction of tissues is increased by the accelerated action of the heart.
164. oldal - ... muscle. Sir James Sawyer states that he had used cane sugar with success for the last ten years in anemia and wasting diseases, and in persons with neurotic manifestations, and found that the patient Increased In weight and power; that sugar appears to act both as a nutrient and also as a tonic, the continued administration of which in debilitated and relaxed conditions of the body Imparts strength and vigor with permanent effect. D. Lo Monaco says sugar Is useful in reducing suppuration and...
85. oldal - ... that ulcers about the nails are occasionally observed among our soldiers, having escaped the attention of the medical boards, or being caused by the pressure of the boot during forced marches. Under these circumstances, a prompt and painless cure may be effected by inserting the dry sesquichloride between the nail and the protruding flesh, and powdering the latter with the same substance. A large bandage should be applied over all, not impregnated with the liquid sesquichloride of iron, as recommended...

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