Transactions of the Section on Practice of Medicine of the American Medical Association at the ... Annual Session, Volume 60American Medical Association Press, 1909 |
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Page 96 - This day relenting God Hath placed within my hand A wondrous thing; and God Be praised. At His command, Seeking His secret deeds With tears and toiling breath, I find thy cunning seeds, O million-murdering Death. I know this little thing A myriad men will save. O Death, where is thy sting? Thy victory, O Grave...
Page 104 - Stilee, to which rules there are but few exceptions ; diseases which are accidentally spread by insects are caused by parasitic plants, particularly by bacteria; diseases which are dependent upon insects or other arthropods for their dissemination and transmission are caused by parasitic animals, particularly by sporozoa and worms.
Page 116 - IS or 20 years, when it disappears. The explanations which suggest themselves are that among older individuals there tends to be a large number of very severe, rapidly fatal or fulminating cases of the disease, or that older persons are less subject to the beneficial actions of the serum. As regards the actual proposition it may be stated that adults not infrequently respond promptly to the serum injections by abrupt termination of the disease or amelioration of the symptoms and pathologic conditions....
Page 114 - I wish now to present a tabulation which has recently been prepared bnsed on 712 cases of the disease in which the bacteriologic diagnosis was made and the serum treatment used. In the first table the cases are subdivided according to certain age periods, and in the second the total cases of each age period are further subdivided according as the serum was injected in the three arbitrarily chosen periods of duration of the disease. TABLE I. — CASES OP EPIDEMIC CEREBROSPINAL MENINGITIS TREATED WITH...
Page 279 - We have not yet been able to devote much time to the selection of variety in foods and dishes, but this is one of the questions which soon will engage our attention. CONCLUSIONS. 1. The practice of partial starvation, at present followed in the treatment of typhoid fever, is highly detrimental to the patient's welfare. 2. It is not only desirable but necessary that the typhoid patient be given sufficient food to cover his energy expenditures.
Page 115 - Table 1 brings out several points of interest. The highest mortality is shown to have occurred in the first two years of life. But contrary to the rule under the older forms of treatment in which the mortality was 90 per cent., or over, in this series it was 42.3 per cent. The second age period is from 2 to 5 years, in which the mortality was 26.7 per cent. The third age period embraces children from 5 to 10 years of age and gave the lowest mortality of all, namely, 15.9 per cent. The next period...
Page 108 - ... annually is probably by no means too high. It will not be an exaggeration to estimate that onefourth of the productive capacity of an individual suffering with an average case of malaria is lost. Accepting this as a basis, and including the loss through death, the cost of medicines, the losses to enterprises in malarious regions through the difficulty of securing competent labor, and other factors, it is safe to place the annual loss to the United States from malarial disease under present conditions...
Page 99 - Man is entirely dependent upon the disease in the rat. "3. The infection is conveyed from rat to rat, and from rat to man solely by the rat flea. " 4. A case of bubonic plague in man is not in itself infectious. "5. A large majority of cases of plague occur singly in houses.
Page 225 - LIVER. By Dr. L. Oser, of Vienna; Dr. E. Neusser, of Vienna; and Drs. H. Quincke and G. Hoppe-Seyler, of Kiel. The entire volume edited, with additions, by Frederick A.
Page 157 - ... quarters. First of all, the drug should be administered only in pill form, coated to the extent of about an eighth of an inch with phenyl salicylate (salol). The patient must be put to bed for the first two weeks' treatment and his diet restricted to liquids or, at most, light solids.