The Medical Examiner: A Monthly Record of Medical Science, Band 3

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Lindsay & Blakiston., 1840
 

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Seite 185 - Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be presented to the family of the deceased and published in the papers of the city.
Seite 60 - May, 1870. •' 2. The several incorporated bodies, thus addressed, shall also be requested by the President to submit the Pharmacopoeia to a careful revision, and to transmit the result of their labors, through their delegates or through any other channel, to the next convention.
Seite 210 - The affection appeared to him to be evidently scrofulous, and the result obtained to be very satisfactory. The disease, however, soon re-appeared ; the fistula of the finger began to suppurate again ; there was swelling and livid redness of the soft parts, with engorgement and induration of the back of the hand ; the sore on the elbow became larger and deeper. The patient now entered the hospital of St. Louis, where he had internal medicines as well as fumigations, sulphurous baths, &c. In a month...
Seite 60 - 1. The President of this Convention shall, on the first day of May, 1849, issue a notice, requesting the several incorporated State Medical Societies, the incorporated Medical Colleges, the incorporated Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons, and the incorporated Colleges of Pharmacy, throughout the United States...
Seite 212 - When all the ascertained facts are compared together, one is struck by the very peculiar tonic action of monesia on every organ. As its powers have been tried in more than four hundred cases, we may be allowed to consider monesia as a very useful remedy, under several circumstances, particularly scrofulous affections and uterine hemorrhage. Hence the art of healing was made a real acquisition ; nor is it to be imagined that this tonic has any analogy with those already known,* quite lately a tannin...
Seite 208 - It is entirely soluble in water, and its taste, which is at first sugary like liquorice, soon becomes astringent, and leaves behind a well-marked and lasting acid taste, which is particularly felt in the tonsils. The bark of the monesia is smooth and grayish, like that of the...
Seite 211 - April, 1839, that he had an indolent tumour in the left inguinal region. Several physicians of the capital were consulted, and they ascertained that it was a swelling of one of the superficial lymphatic glands, situated in the bend of the groin. On the 21st of the same month, I was also consulted by the patient. The diagnosis was not difficult, but the point was to know how the tumour would turn out.
Seite 487 - ... owned by Watt, Burke & Co. had the leeward side nearly demolished. 7. Another brick house adjoining the last mentioned had the windward gable end thrown outward. 8. The roof of the Theatre, a large brick building, had the entire roof blown off and thrown some ten feet forward, and the walls demolished. 9. The leeward walls of two front rooms of the Tremont House, on Wall street, were thrown outward with great force, without destroying or moving the furniture therein, and where the storm could...
Seite 211 - SO in a minute. Revulsives, cold and acidulated drinks, clysters of cold water, and compresses dipped in iced water and applied to the thighs, had no effect. The ergot of rye was then employed, but as this excited vomiting, it was discontinued, and pills of the extract of monesia were ordered to be taken every hour, until an effect was produced. After fourteen pills the hemorrhage ceased. The patient then took cold broth at intervals, and in spite of the lightness of this food, the discharge returned...
Seite 209 - ... ulcérations as an active stimulant, it has never irritated the stomach as tonics (?) properly so called, often do. In order to form a due estimate of its relative activity, we must not forget that it has always been employed after the exhibition of other remedies. I now come to my own cases, the general results of which may be stated as follows : — Monesia, when exhibited internally, in the dose of from 75 to 125 centigrammes (14 to 23 grains) of the extract daily, for eight or ten days, whether...

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