Journal of Materia Medica, Volumen16

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1877
 

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Página 58 - See life dissolving vegetate again: All forms that perish other forms supply; (By turns we catch the vital breath, and die) Like bubbles on the sea of Matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
Página 92 - It is said that about a pint of this mixture will cover a square yard upon the outside of a house if properly applied. Brushes more or less small may be used according to the neatness of the job required. It answers as well as oil paint for wood, brick or scone, and is cheaper.
Página 35 - The pecuniary costs, therefore, of pernicious influences may be measured by the charges attendant on the duration of life, and the reduction of the period of working ability, and the cost will also include much of the attendant vice and crime, as well as the destitution which comes within the province...
Página 4 - While ergotin, a purified, watery extract, has been advised by many, and has been found to act efficiently in many cases, its action is liable to be uncertain by reason of age or faulty preparation, and after dilution with water it soon becomes inert. 6. Fluid extract of ergot may be administered hypodermically, undiluted, and without local accident, as abscess or inflammation, if care be exercised ; and its effect is very prompt and certain.
Página 92 - Take half a bushel of nice unslacked lime, slack it with boiling water, cover it during the process to keep in the steam. Strain the liquid through a fine sieve or strainer, and add to it a peck of salt, previously well dissolved in warm water; three pounds of ground rice, boiled to a thin paste, and stirred in boiling hot; half a pound of powdered Spanish whiting, and a pound of clean glue, which has been...
Página 92 - ... soaking it well, and then hanging it over a slow fire, in a small kettle within a large one filled with water. Add five gallons of hot water to the mixture, stir it well, and let it stand a few days covered from the dirt.
Página 229 - The other is the opposite condition of menorrhagia in certain females. There are cases of menorrhagia associated with pallor and debility, where the usual compound of iron and extract of ergot is not so useful as a non-chalybeate treatment. In these cases it is not any imperfection in the process of blood manufacture which is to be remedied, for the blood is made rapidly and quickly, only to be lost at each menstrual period. It is here desirable rather to limit the rapidity of the blood formation,...
Página 86 - ... disappear, and it becomes benign and inert, its enucleation proceeding under the use of ordinary means without the aid of the bistoury. When after the discharge of its contents a deep excavation remains, it is useful to apply to the walls a solution of nitrate of silver, with the object of obliterating the open vascular orifices and impeding the absorption of the diseased liquid.
Página 56 - The use of glycerin in pill excipients is a very good thing as far as it goes, but it does not protect the pill from deterioration by exposure, nor does it shield the palate from the disagreeable contact of the
Página 229 - ... the tongue be clean without irritability. It may be laid down as a general rule that this toleration of iron diminishes as the age increases Young children take iron well, and it is often well borne by them in conditions which in the adult distinctly forbid its use. There is one condition where iron is absolutely forbidden, and that is the condition known as biliousness. As long as there is a foul tongue, a bad taste in the mouth, and fullness of the liver with disturbances of the alimentary...

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