Medical News and Abstract, Volumen46

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Lea Brothers & Company, 1885
 

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Página 188 - Sores or abscesses varying in size from that of a millet seed to...
Página 41 - The safest mode of remittance is by bank check or postal money order, drawn to the order of the undersigned. Where these are not accessible, remittances for the "JOURNAL" may be made at the risk of the publisher, by forwarding in REGISTERED letters.
Página 379 - THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MEDICINE. By American Teachers. Edited by WILLIAM PEPPER, MD, LL.D., Provost and Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine and of Clinical Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania.
Página 420 - THE object of disinfection is to prevent the extension of infectious diseases by destroying the specific infectious material which gives rise to them.
Página 334 - ... 5. Resolved, That any case respecting which reputable and experienced physicians disagree as to whether the disease is or is not pestilential shall be reported as suspicious. "6. Resolved, That any case respecting which efforts are made to conceal its existence, full history and true nature shall be deemed suspicious, and so acted upon.
Página 421 - Solution, diluted with twenty parts of water, will be more suitable than the stronger solution above recommended. In all infectious diseases the surface of the body of the dead should be thoroughly washed with one of the standard solutions above recommended, and then enveloped in a sheet saturated with the same.
Página 139 - ... be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars or more than two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than sixty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, for each and every offense. A failure to produce any age and schooling certificate or permit...
Página 387 - Vice-Presidents, a Secretary-General, and a Treasurer, and those elected to these positions will be nominated by the General Committee, to hold the same offices in the Congress. All vacancies in these offices shall be filled by election.
Página 420 - Disinfection of Excreta, etc. The infectious character of the dejections of patients suffering from cholera and from typhoid fever is well established; and this is true of mild cases and of the earliest stages of these diseases as well as of severe and fatal cases. It is probable that epidemic dysentery, tuberculosis, and perhaps diphtheria, yellow fever, scarlet fever, and typhus fever, may also be transmitted by means of the alvine discharges of the sick. It is, therefore, of fhe first importance...
Página 420 - In the sick-room we have disease germs at an advantage, for we know where to find them as well as how to kill them. Having this knowledge, not to apply it would be criminal negligence, for our efforts to restrict the extension of infectious diseases must depend largely upon the proper use of disinfectants in the sick room.

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