Transactions of the Section on Practice of Medicine of the American Medical Association at the ... Annual Session ..., Volume 64American Medical Association Press, 1913 |
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Page 237 - If the leper is an alien and a member of the crew and the vessel is from a foreign port, said leper shall be detained at the quarantine at the vessel's expense until taken aboard by the same vessel when outward bound.
Page 165 - ... effective active immunity may be obtained. An immune serum produced by a member of any of the other groups has no protective power for any race of this group. In Group 4 are included all the races against which Serums 1 and 2 are not effective and which, from their other properties, do not belong in Group 3. Animals may readily be immunized to any member of this group, and the serum of the immunized animal is protective against the race used for immunization. In no instance, however, has this...
Page 324 - ... Mothers and nurses called them growing pains very frequently. He was very pleased to hear Dr Balt'our and Prof. Fraser express an opinion on the value of rest, because he was quite certain that the best treatment of these cases in the young was prolonged rest in bed and the greatest care. He meant rest not for a few days or a few weeks, but for months or years. He was quite certain that if they carried out this, they did more to save the child from subsequent troubles than by any use of drugs...
Page 167 - ... immediately made from the blood and also one from a portion of sputum coughed up from the lung, or, when this is not obtainable, a culture is made directly from the lung by the insertion of a needle. This procedure seems to be without danger. When there are large numbers of virulent organisms in the sputum, a culture may be most rapidly obtained by injecting the sputum into the abdominal cavity of a mouse. After four or five hours the peritoneal cavity may be washed out with salt solution and...
Page 235 - ... unable to locate. Of the 278 cases reported by the commission, 145 were born in the United States, 120 in foreign countries, and the place of birth of 13 was unknown. Of the total number, 186 were reported as having probably contracted the disease in the United States. Of the 278 cases, only 72 were isolated and provided for by the States or cities in which they were domiciled. Although the number of cases of leprosy reported by the State authorities as present January 1, 1912, was only 146,...
Page 239 - Paragraph 11. Any person who presents symptoms of leprosy and who is traveling or who has left the State where he resides, in violation of the above regulations, shall be detained, and if proven to be a leper shall be returned to such State or removed to such Federal quarantine station as the Secretary of the Treasury may designate and the proper health authorities notified. "Paragraph 12. Compartments or places in cars, vessels, or...
Page 114 - The pulse-pressure measures the energy of the heart in systole in excess of the diastolic pressure. For clinical purposes it represents the load of the heart. Under normal conditions it is approximately 50 per cent of the diastolic pressure.
Page 100 - Thus the amount of energy expended in maintaining the circulation in excess of that required to open the aortic valves and overcome the resisting pressure of 80, is 40. The normal load may therefore be considered f $, or 50 per cent. of the diastolic pressure
Page 114 - ... of the diastolic pressure. For clinical purposes, it represents the load of the heart. Under normal conditions it is approximately 50 per cent, of the diastolic pressure. The myocardial load...
Page 205 - tropical diseases" be meant diseases peculiar to, and confined to, the tropics, then half a dozen pages might have sufficed for their description ; for, at most, only two or three comparatively unimportant diseases strictly deserve that title. If, on the other hand, the expression " tropical diseases " be held to include all diseases occurring in the tropics, then the work would require to cover almost the entire range of medicine ; for the diseases of temperate climates are also, and in almost every...