Treatise on the Diseases of Infancy and Childhood

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Henry C. Lea, 1876 - 724 Seiten
 

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Seite 296 - I give half-drop doses of the 3x tincture every two, three or four hours, according to the urgency of the symptoms...
Seite 22 - There is now little room for doubt that various deformities and deficiencies of the foetus, conformably to the popular belief, do really originate, in certain cases, from nervous impressions, such as disgust, fear or anger, experienced by the mother.
Seite 546 - The only disease with which it is liable to be confounded is...
Seite v - He has endeavored to merit a continuance of thia approbation by rendering the volume much more complete than before. Nearly twenty additional diseases have been treated of, among which may be named Diseases Incidental to Birth, Rachitis, Tuberculosis, Scrofula, Intermittent, Remittent, and Typhoid Fevers, Chorea, and the various forms of Paralysis.
Seite 242 - A small glass ear or nostril syringe, with a knob or button at the end of the nozzle, is the best form of instrument for these injections. One-third to one-half of a teaspoonful of the diluted mixture is a sufficient quantity to employ for each nostril. This application properly made, prevents decomposition, removes the offensive odor, and...
Seite 183 - Care of Patients. — The patient should be placed in a separate room, and no person except the physician, nurse, or mother, allowed to enter the room, or to touch the bedding or clothing used in the sick-room, until they have been thoroughly disinfected.
Seite 243 - ... great part abated. When the inflammation has begun to abate, and there is no reappearance of the exudation, a gargle or drink of chlorate of potash is given.
Seite 564 - If there are no symptoms except such as occur directly from the swelling and congestion of the gum, the lancet should seldom be used. The pathological state of the gum which would without doubt require its use is an abscess over the tooth.
Seite 566 - The remedies which I have found most useful are as follows: First, a relief from study or from regular tasks, yet using books so far as they afford agreeable occupation or amusement. Second, exercise in the open air, preferring the mode most agreeable to the patient, and in more grave cases the removal from town to country.
Seite 564 - Here is what Dr. J. Lewis Smith says on the subject, in his work on the diseases of infancy and childhood: " The gum-lancet is now much less frequently employed than formerly. It is used more by the ignorant practitioner who is deficient in the ability to diagnosticate obscure diseases, than by one of intelligence, who can discern more clearly the true pathological state. Its use is more frequent in some countries, as...

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