St. Georges Hospital ReportsJohn Churchill., 1875 |
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Page 7 - ... is less complete, smallpox, if it be caught, will, in consequence of the vaccination, generally be so mild a disease as not to threaten death or disfigurement. If, however, the vaccination in early life have been but imperfectly performed, or have from any other cause been but imperfectly successful, the protection against smallpox is much less satisfactory ; neither lasting so long, nor while it lasts being nearly so complete, as the protection which first-rate vaccination gives. Hitherto, unfortunately,...
Page 4 - ... on the servants and nurses of the hospital, on persons coming to visit their friends, patients in the hospital, and, lately, on the numerous workmen employed in building the new hospital. The effect produced by revaccination sixteen or seventeen years ago was, with some few exceptions, nothing more than a little irritation, or at most an abortive vesicle with irregular areola. But, during the last three or four years, I have seen a great many persons, on whose arms the vesicles produced by revaccination...
Page 6 - Although the cow-pox shields the constitution from the smallpox, and the smallpox proves a protection against its own future poison, yet it appears that the human body is again and again susceptible of the infectious matter of the cow-pox, as the following history will demonstrate.
Page 114 - ... did not admit that its manifest influence upon iritis is necessarily an evidence that it will exert a similar or equal influence elsewhere. In support of this view it may be said that the poisonous effect of mercury is displayed first upon the gums, which derive their nerve supply from the source indicated ; and we may also find something analogous in the deposition of lead in the gums, coupled with its tendency to produce atrophy of the optic nerves. The suggestion is one upon which I need not...
Page 121 - Graefe was accustomed to use hot camomile fomentations, and to apply them by means of little muslin bags, in which a few camomile flowers were sewn up prior to being boiled. Each bag, as it was taken from the eye, was returned to the decoction to recover its temperature ; and it is obvious that, whether water or some medicated decoction is employed, it must be kept hot during the whole period of application, either by a spirit-lamp or some similar contrivance, or by additions of fresh hot liquid...
Page 7 - ... vaccination ; and in consequence the population always contains very many persons who, though nominally vaccinated and believing themselves to be protected against smallpox, are really liable to infection, and may in some cases contract as severe forms of smallpox as if they had never been vaccinated. Partly because of the existence of this large number of imperfectly vaccinated persons, and partly because also even the best infantine vaccination sometimes, in process of time, loses more or less...
Page 110 - ... untruthfulness, it is often beset by great difficulties ; while, at the same time, it may be absolutely necessary for the surgeon to arrive at some definite conclusion with regard to it. The occurrence of iritis in one eye of a previously healthy young woman, soon after her marriage to a man who is likely to have contracted syphilis, but who denies having done so, is perhaps as good an example as can be found of the practical bearing of an ofteu-times insoluble problem. In such a case it is generally...
Page 100 - I have also found this formula to be of the greatest possible value iu many cases of eyedisease, in which local changes were progressing too rapidly to be overtaken by the use of a grain or two of quinine twice or thrice a day as a ' tonic,' but in which they were promptly arrested when the patient was brought under the influence of the specified combination.
Page 1 - Europe and other parts of the globe are incalculable ; and it now becomes too manifest to admit of controversy, that the annihilation of the Smallpox, the most dreadful scourge of the human species, must be the final result of this practice.
Page 103 - There are certain forms of iritis in which the acuteness of pain is a prominent symptom ; and it was chiefly in cases of this class that the late Mr. Zachariah Laurence succeeded, some years ago, in bringing about a cure by the use of large doses of opium or morphia alone. He kept his patients in a state of semi-narcotism for several days, or until all symptoms of acute inflammation had subsided. His original paper in the Edinburgh Medical Journal is still interesting ; but it was written at a time...