Eastern Medical Journal, Volumes 3-4

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A.J. Marston, 1884

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Page 172 - Text-Book of Hygiene. A COMPREHENSIVE TREATISE ON THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE FROM AN AMERICAN STAND-POINT. By GEORGE H. ROHE, MD, Professor of Obstetrics and Hygiene in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore ; Member of the American Public Health Association, etc. Second Edition, thoroughly revised and largely rewritten, with many illustrations and valuable tables.
Page 113 - Menstruation. It Restores Normal Action to the Uterus, and Imparts Vigor to the Entire Uterine System.
Page 48 - ... one uterine and the other ovarian. In the uterine variety, there are cases which do not depend at all upon obstruction; the pain is due to the effort of the uterus to relieve the plethora by the rupture of capillaries and exfoliations of mucous membrane. He uses the lactate of iron in doses of from three to five grains three times a day, associated with chlorate of potash ; as soon as the symptoms of menstruation begin he gives apiol, which he looks upon almost in the light of a specific. In...
Page 73 - ... is as flabby as her biceps: so that the unhappy viscus is impaled upon a stem, or perched upon a prop, or is painted with carbolic acid every week in the year except during the long vacation when the gynecologist is grouse-shooting, or salmon-catching, or leading the fashion in the Upper Engadine.
Page 29 - I prefer to apply it to the os tincae on cotton wool, either pure or mixed with glycerine, or glycerine and rose water. Thus applied, it should remain intact for two or three, or even four days, and then be renewed. In this way I have seen chronic granular vaginitis remedied in a few days that had resisted the ordinary remedies...
Page 3 - Go, from the creatures thy instructions take : Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield ; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field: Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave ; Learn of the little nautilus to sail ; Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale...
Page 115 - ... two per cent of bone-formers; add to this the diastase, which imparts to it the curious power of digesting all farinaceous food outside itself, and we have in maltine a most valuable adjunct to our invalid diet. In respect to the diastase, maltine seems remarkably energetic, and at the temperature of the human body one part liquefied "twenty parts of starch in two minutes," and had completly changed or digested that body in about an hour.
Page 29 - ... disappear very rapidly under its use. I have not time to do more than call the attention of my professional brethren to this new extract, which I am sure will soon be recognized as a valuable addition to our Materia Medica.
Page 114 - CONCENTRATED FOODS. — Medical men are now recognizing the value of malt extracts as foods in cases of deficient assimilation. That their use is extending may be taken for granted by the number of exhibitors of concentrated foods in the exhibition at South Kensington last year. Important improvements have recently been made in the manufacture of malt extracts, which are now prescribed in a variety of forms. One of the most effective combinations in dyspepsia, cholera infantum, and all diseases resulting...
Page 204 - December next, and that the Secretary of this Conference be directed to invite the attendance at that time of the quarantine officers, and the health officers of the principal cities in the United States and Canada; and that all delegates to that meeting be prepared to report the sanitary status of their State or locality, and what steps have been taken to improve the same, and to prevent the introduction of disease.

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