Dia Gnos
Dia Gnos S.—when A Femoral Hernia Is Not Strangulated, An Impulse May Be Felt When The Patient Coughs. The Tumor Is Generally Tense, Small. And Round, And Can Be Pushed To The Outside Of The Spine Of The Pubes. Inguinal Llernia.—from This Variety The Distinction Is Sometimes Difficult, Especially In ...
Diabetes
Diabetes. — This Condition May Be Suggested By The Facies Of A Case, But The Degree Of Wasting Is Far Greater In Ano Rexia, And The Urine Does Not Contain Sugar. Death The Body Weighed But Forty-nine Pounds. The Brain And Other Organs Found Normal. Lockhart Stephens (lon Don Lancet, ...
Diabetes Insipidus Poly Uria
Diabetes Insipidus (poly Uria). Definition. — A Disease Characterized By Marked Increase In The Quantity Of Urine, Without Any Important Qualitative Changes In The Elements Of Which It Is Composed. Symptoms.—the Malady May Begin Insidiously; But It Is Not Unusual For It To Appear Suddenly, Either Following One Of The ...
Diabetes Mellitus
Diabetes Mellitus. Definition.—a Malady Characterized By Non-accidental—that Is To Say, A Per Manent Or Very Nearly Permanent—gly Cosuria. Symptoms.—with But Rare Exceptions, The Onset Of This Disease Is Insidious, And Cannot Be Recognized By The Patient. Many Cases Of Diabetes Remain Entirely Unsuspected Until The Time When Some Symptom Other ...
Diagnosis
Diagnosis. - Except The Deformity And Crepitus, Any Or All Of The Above Symptoms May Be Caused By Injury To Or Disease Of The Cord Without Any Fracture Of The Spine. Hence The Diagnosis Is Generally Obscure; But No Manipulation Should Be Undertaken For The Purpose Of Elucidating It, For ...
Diagnosis Of Various Forms
Diagnosis Of Various Forms Of Keratitis.—the Diagnosis Of The Par Ticular Form Of Keratitis Present Is Often Very Important. Here The Character Of The Opacity Or Ulceration May Be Of Great Significance. Interstitial Keratitis Will Be Known By The Depth Of The Opacity, The Fine Loops Of The Vessels, The ...
Diagnostic Points Among The
Diagnostic Points Among The Motor Phenomena Of Itysteria.1. In Aphonia, Etherization And Faradization Of The Throat Will Cause The Patient To Speak. Talking During Sleep May Occur, And Singing Is Possible In Many Cases. The Aphonia May Have Come On Suddenly After Emotional Disturbance Of Trauma Tism. Paralysis Of The ...
Diarrheal Diseases Infants
Infants, Diarrheal Diseases Of.—gr., From Through, And (fir. To Flow. Definition.—diarrhoea In Itself Can Be Regarded As A Symptom Only: A Symptom Indicative Of Increased Motor Activity And Of Increased, And Perhaps Perverted, Secretory Activity In The Intestinal Canal. Disturbance Of The Intestinal Activity Is Sometimes Due Merely To The ...
Diet And Mode Of
Diet And Mode Of Life.—the Tinn Ing Woman Should Have A Generous Mixed Diet, Not Excessive In Nitrogenous Food Nor In Vegetables. She Should Drink From A Quart To A Quart And A Half Of Milk Or Milk-gruels Daily. Meat, Eggs; Such Cereals As Oatmeal, Rice, Hominy, Etc., Bread, Potatoes, ...
Dietetic
Dietetic Manage3ient.—a Most Im Portant Point In The Management Of Yel Low Fever Is The Diet. Many A Patient. His Crisis Past And The Borders Of Con Valescence Reached, Has Been Hurried Into An Untimely Grave By The Misplaced Kindness Of An Apparently Simple Meal. The Vellow-fever Patient Should Never ...
Diffuse
Diffuse Abscess.—if An Abscess Has Opened Into The Peritoneal Cavity, Caus Ing Diffused Septic Peritonitis, A Good Sized Incision Is Made Parallel To The Border Of Poupart's Ligament, The Peri Toneal Cavity Is Opened, And The Con Tained Fluids Are Removed. The Appen Dix Is Removed; Further Collections Of Fluid ...
Digestive Disorders
Digestive Disorders. — In Certain Diseases Of The Stomach And Digestive Apparatus The Drug Is Often And Preferable To Opium, In That It Does Not Inhibit (but, Instead, Increases) Ap Petite; Does Not Interfere With The Secre Tions Of Either Pancreas Or Liver, And Does Not Constipate Or Check Renal ...
Digitalis
Digitalis Abstra.ct.—this Is Merely A Dried Solid Extract Powdered And Mixed With Some Material To Prevent Its Sub Sequent Firm Agglutination, And Should Be Made Without Heat By The Substitute Process. It Presents A Green Color And The Characteristic Digitalic Odor. Within A Few Days After Making And Placing In ...
Digitonin
Digitonin. — Soluble In Water And Alcohol, Appears In The Form Of Yellow Grannies, But Possesses None Of The Prop Erties For Which Digitalis Is Celebrated. It Appears To Be Identical, Or At Least Closely Related, To Saponin, The Active Principle Of Quilliai Bark. Lhontx.—digitin Is A Coarsely-granu Lated, Crystalline ...
Dilatation Of The Heart
Dilatation Of The Heart. Definition.—increase In The Size Of The Heart, Due To Enlargement Of One Or More Of Its Cavities. Clinically, "dilatation" Is Applied To An Enlarged, But Failing, Heart Displaying The Phenomena Of "ruptured Compensation." Varieties.—"simple" Dilatation Is The Term Used To Denote That Condition In Which The ...
Diphtheria
Diphtheria. — From The Greek: (4)04a, A Skin Or Membrane. Definition.—diphtheria Is An Acute Infectious And Contagious Disease Pro Duced By The Presence And Development Of The Klebs-loeffier Bacillus. As It Occurs In Man, It Is Usually Characterized By The Presence Of False Membranes Upon The Surfaces Primarily Attacked, Espe ...
Diphtheritic Dysentery
Diphtheritic Dysentery. — An In Flammatory Disease Of Variable And Un Certain Etiology, Which Affects Especially The Large Intestine, Sometimes Involving The Small Gut, Which May Or May Not Be Attended With Fever; Is Characterized By Mucous, Serous, Or Bloody Stools, And Is Accompanied With Tormina And Tenesmus. The Anatomical ...
Dis Eases 01 Tonsils
Tonsils And Pharynx, Dis Eases 01'. Acute Tonsillitis. Acute Tonsillitis, Inflammation Of The Tonsils And Adjacent Structures, May Be Phlegmonous Or Croupous. Symptoms.—phlegmonous (or Follicu Lar) Tonsillitis Is Ushered In By A Feeling Of Dryness And Stiffness In The Throat, Soon Followed By Dysphagia. There May Be A Chill, Or ...
Dis Eases Of The
Optic Nerve And Retina, Dis Eases Of The. The Optic Nerve And The Retina, Form Ing, Together, An Offshoot Of The Central Nervous System, Show The Closest Associ Ation In Their Diseases, Which Are Largely Dependent On General Disease And Dis Ease Of Other Organs. Being Open To In Spection ...
Dis Eases Of The
Liver And Gall-bladder, Dis Eases Of The. Diseases Of The Liver. Malformations.—abnormalities In The Form Of The Liver Are Not Common. They May Be Either Acquired Or Congenital. 1. Corset-liver.—the Constant Press Ure Of The Lower Ribs Against The Liver As A Result Of Tight Lacing Or The Wearing Of ...
Dis Orders Of Tension
Tension Of The Eyeball, Dis Orders Of. To Preserve The Shape And Proper Re Lations Of The Refracting Surfaces Of The Eyeball, The Sclero-corneal Coat Is Kept Distended By Its Contents, Which Nor Mally Press Outward With A Force Equal To The Weight Of A Column Of Mercury 25 Or ...
Disease Of Tile Generative
Disease Of Tile Generative Organs. —there Is No Doubt That Many Of The Lighter And Irritating Affections Of These Organs, Both In The Male And Female, In Crease The Nervous Condition Of The Suf Ferers, And, If They Are Not The Direct Exciting Causes Of Attacks Of Hysteria, They Increase ...
Diseases And Injuries Of
Nails, Diseases And Injuries Of The. Lit-itits The Implication Of The Nail In Ztntr 1 In. Rl Id Processes—such As Syph . Is, T Nulls, Leprosy, Etc.—there Are Sev Tra ,trittiv Local Divisions That Require Spt.l..11 Notice. Contusion. Ct Ntti,ion Of A Nail By A Blow, A Com T Ris,ion, ...