The Universal Medical Journal, Volume 3F.A. Davis Company, 1895 |
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Page 192 - Now, the aetiology of cholera infantum is not so obscure as asserted by a good many authors. Whether or not of microbic origin, one thing is sure — it is due to a chemical decomposition of food, causing an inflammatory condition of the digestive and alimentary canal. Clinical experience, furthermore, shows that this disease is of a grave character, producing death in a large proportion.
Page 192 - Hydrozone being twice as strong as Marchand's peroxide of hydrogen, for economical reasons the latter drug is preferred by me. This remedy can be administered internally as well as externally. I add a tablespoonful of hydrozone to a pint of water for washing out the stomach. The vomiting ceases after the first washing, as a rule. If necessary, this procedure can be repeated. If the vital power of the little patient is not too low it can produce no harm. But in every case, no matter how far advanced,...
Page 299 - The same study of the so-called galvanic reactions also informs us rapidly (in 5 to 10 seances) of the curability of these inflammatory lesions which the electric current has demonstrated, and in consequence of this it tells us in one case to abstain from operation while in another it shows an operation to be urgent.
Page 313 - ... unilateral castration is at present contradictory, but there can be no doubt that in some cases it is followed by unilateral atrophy of the prostate, and in two cases, at least, it has resulted in a very marked improvement of symptoms. It is worthy of further investigation. (6...
Page 299 - En resume, gynecological electro-therapeutics, carefully, methodically, and patiently applied, instead of being opposed to the marvelous progress of surgery, comes to its aid. Independently, in fact, of the great therapeutic service which it renders every day, electricity serves as a touch-stone ; it assists us in diagnosis, and thus directly serves the interests of surgery, in one case showing an operation to be useless and dangerous, in another that its necessity is urgent. Thus many...
Page 297 - ... application. 9. The diseases which have derived most benefit from this therapeutic agent belong to the arthritic class, rheumatism and gout. 10. In certain diabetic subjects the sugar has disappeared altogether from the urine under the influence of these currents, while in others there has been no such change, notwithstanding the manifest and constant improvement in the general condition. Is this difference due to the imperfection of the electric apparatus or to the manner of its application...
Page 192 - ... the crying babies by putting them to the breast. Remedies are of very little value. Beginning with calomel, salol, and all the newer antiseptics, finishing with subnitrate of bismuth — they have all proved a failure, for none of them work quickly enough. The treatment as outlined by Dr. Elmer Lee, of Chicago, in his cases of typhoid fever, proved a success in my hands during last summer, and under this treatment I have lost only one patient out of twenty-three, while the monuments of my skill...
Page 192 - Both ought to be administered hypodermically. Their indication is too well known, and they are about all we need. No antipyretics should be given. If the fever is very high, and if the irrigation of the bowels does not reduce it, the whole body should be washed with alcohol. The diet for the next twenty-four hours should be very light indeed. Sweet, strong Russian tea is all I allow. Each individual case will teach us when food can be allowed again. Since the adoption of this mode of treatment I...
Page 298 - On the other hand, if the same faradic current proves ineffective, the lesion being inflammatory, we are led to resort to a supplementary galvanic treatment or to a surgical operation sooner or later. 4. The constant galvanic current, applied to the uterine cavity in doses gradually increasing from 50 to 120 milliamperes, according to the rules published by Dr.
Page 256 - ... every form of organism. The products of organic action alone are able to pass into the blood. If sufficient quantities of pure water, of a suitable temperature, are introduced into the body through the natural channels, it is- actually possible to wash morbid products as well as organic forms of life, out of the human body. The mouth gives entrance to the causative germs in Asiatic cholera. That is quite conclusively established. The locality of the development and formation of the toxin in the...