Group Vii Psychoses Due
Group Vii. Psychoses Due To De Velopmental Changes In The Brain. (see Also Infantile Myxcedema.) Pubescent Insanity. Definition.—insanity Occurring During The Pubescent Period Of Life. By The "pubescent Period" Is Not Meant The Arrival Of The Subject At The Period Of Puberty, But The Completion Of The Period During Which ...
Growths
Growths, Are Said To Occur In The Rectum, But They Must Be Extremely Rare. Angioma.—these Mevoid Tumors Are Likewise Of Rare Occurrence In The Rectum, And When They Exist May Occasion Con Siderable Hwmorrhage. Cystoma.—various Cystic Tumors May Occur About Or Within The Rectum, But Dermoid Cyst Is The Most ...
Gynecological Disorders
Gyn..ecological Disorders. — In Vaginitis And Catarrhal Endometritis A Tablespoonful Of A 10-per-cent. Solution Of Formalin To A Quart Of Water Has Been Found Useful. Formic Aldehyde Used In One Hundred And Fifty-five Cases Of Diseases Of Women. It Is An Efficient Remedy In Vaginitis And Catarrhal Or Blennorrhagic Endometritis. ...
Habitual Abortion
Habitual. Abortion. — Etiology. Habitual Abortion May Be Due To Either Constitutional Or Local Causes. Of The Former The Principal Are Syphilis, Lead Poisoning, Tobacco Poisoning, And Heart Disease. The Local Causes Are Divided Into Four Groups: Malformations Of The Uterus, Displacements Of The Uterus, Active Con Gestion Of The ...
Hamorrhagic Effusions
Hamorrhagic Effusions Are Occa Sionally Met With And Are Usually Due To Tuberculosis Of The Pleura, Less Often To Carcinoma. They May Occur Also In Bright's Disease, Cirrhosis Of The Liver, And In Malignant Cases Of The Eruptive Fevers. They Are Also Occasionally Met With In Persons Apparently Free From ...
Head
Head. — This Is The Most Formidable Tape-worm Of Man, And Measures 5 To Metres In Length. It Is Made Up Of From 3000 To 4000 Short, Broad Segments. These Are Broadest In The Middle Region, And Grow Narrower Toward The End. The Length Of The Largest Segment Is 3 ...
Headache
Headache Is Often The Earliest Symp Tom, And Is Usually One Of The Most Prominent, Constant, And Distressing. It Is Present In From ?5 To 95 Per Cent. My Own Experience Leads Me To Believe That It Is Rarely Absent Throughout The Course Of The Disease. It Is Less Constant ...
Heart
Heart. Wounds Of The Heart And Pericar Dium. — Practically All Wounds Of The Heart Are Bullet And Stab Wounds. Lac Erations By Broken Bones Are Included Under Rupture Of The Heart. Fischer's Statistics Prove That The Most Important Parts Of The Heart Function Ally, The Ventricles, Are Much More ...
Hematuria
Hematuria. Of Urine Con Taining Blood. Symptoms.—trine Containing But A Little Blood May Not Give Any Indication Of Its Presence To The Naked Eye; But, When The Quantity Is Larger, It Presents A Characteristic Smoky Appearance; When More Abundant The Fluid Has A More Or Less Pink Or Red Color, ...
Hemoglobinuria
Hemoglobinuria. Definition.—evacuation Of Urine Con Taining The Coloring Matter Of Blood (but No Corpuscles). Symptoms.—the Urine Varies In Color From Smoky To Pink Or Red, Sometimes Almost Black; The Color Has Been Com Pared To That Of Porter, Coffee, Or Port Wine. The Urine Is Ordinarily Turbid, Acid, Of Variable ...
Hemophilia
Hemophilia. — Gr., Ociuu, Blood, And 02,eiv, To Love. Definition.—ilinmophilia Is An In Herited Or Acquired Disorder Of The Vas Cular System Characterized By An Abnor Mal Liability To Severe And Sometimes Uncontrollable Haemorrhages. Symptoms.—the Condition Is Gener Ally Discovered By Accident, A Slight Wound, The Extraction Of A Tooth, ...
Hepatic Colic And Nephritic
Hepatic Colic And Nephritic Come Sometimes, Simulate Labor-pains, But The Absence Of Ivemorrhage From The Vagina, And The Intensity Of The Suffering, Soon Establish The Identity Of These Diseases. 'threatened Abortion Being The Condi Tion Present, The Next Point Is To Ascer Tain Whether The Abortion Is Inevitable. Abortion Is ...
Hernia
Hernia, Definition.—the Term Hernia Is Used To Denote The Protrusion Of One Or More Of The Abdominal Viscera, And Is Synony Mous With The Ordinary Term "rupture." Varieties.—if The Protrusion Occurs Through Openings In The Abdominal Wall Which, Normally Patent In Foetal Life, Through Some Defect In Development Have Failed ...
Hernia Of The Lung
Hernia Of The Lung. - Hernia Of The Lung (pneumocele) Occurs Either Through A Wound In The Thorax Or In A Yielding Scar. When It Occurs In A Wound, The Lacer Ation Of The Thorax Is Usually Extensive And The Lung Unharmed. In The Flutter Ing, Irregular Motions Of The ...
Heroin
Heroin Constitutes Another Deriv Ative. If Acetyl Groups Are Substituted For The Two Hydroxyl Of Mor Phine, Heroin Is Produced. Its Sedative Action On The Respiration Is Said To Be More Powerful Than That Of Morphine And Codeine. The Fatal Dose Of Heroin Is 100 Times The Efficacious Dose, While ...
Herpes
Herpes Progenitalis.—a Condition Characterized By The Sudden Appearance Of One Or More Vesicles On The Balano Prfeputial Mucous Membrane, Surrounded With An Erythematous Area, And Attended By An Itching, Burning Pain. The Predisposing Causes Are Catarrhal Diathesis, Neuroses, Gout, Rheumatism, And Phimosis, And The Exciting One Is Any Irritation Of ...
Herpes Labialis Fever Blister
Herpes Labialis (fever-blister). See Herpes Facialis, Vol. Iii. Tumors Of The Lips. Of All Primary Neoplasms, About 3 Per Cent. Originate In The Lips; But These Structures. Show A Higher Percentage When Cancer Is Alone Considered: I.e., About 5 Per Cent. As Compared To Other Forms Of Tumor Observed In ...
Herpes Z Oster Shingles
Herpes Z Oster (shingles; Zona). Definition.—herpes Zoster Is An Acute Inflammatory Disease Of The Skin, Appear Ing In The Course Of Certain Cutaneous Nerves, Accompanied By Severe Nerve Pain, Usually Unilateral In The Distribu Tion Of Its Lesions And Characterized By The Occurrence Of Groups Of Firm, Tense. Globoid Vesicles ...
Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus
Herpes-zoster Ophthalmicus Is An Inflammatory Affection Of The Skin, Char Acterized By The Formation Of Vesicles Along The Terminal Expansions Of The Division Of The Fifth Nerve, And Sometimes Its Nasal Branch, And More Rarely The Infra-orbital Division Of The Same Nerve As Well. The Vesicles Are Gen Erally Grouped ...
Heuniatism
Heuniatism, Volume V.) For Purposes Of Treatment, Rheumatic Arthritis Should Be Carefully Differen Tiated From Rheumatoid Arthritis. The Former Is An Affection Of Rheumatic Origin, Local In Character, In Which The Neural Element Is Absent. The Latter Is A General Disease Of Debility, Having No Connection With Rheumatism, In Which ...
Hip Joint Disease
Hip-joint Disease. Definition.—what Is Usually Known As "hip-joint Disease" Is A Tuberculosis Of The Hip-joint; But Tuberculosis, By No Means, Includes All The Diseases Which May Affect The Hip. The Hip May Be Affected By Tuberculosis, By Syphilis, By Rheumatism, And By A Variety Of Acute Infectious Processes Subsequent To ...
Hodgkins Disease
Hodgkin's Disease. — Recent Obser Vations Tend To Show That Bone-marrow May Become A Valuable Remedy In Certain Forms Of Hodgkin's Disease. Case Of Hodgkin's Disease At First Placed On One Fresh Sheep's Thyroid Daily. Tiring Of Them, The Patient Was Placed Upon Extract Of Bone-mairow And Thy Roid. From ...
House Maids Knee
House-maid's Knee. — This Popular Term Is Applied To Chronic Swelling Of The Prepatellar Bursa, As A Result Of Con Tinued Or Repeated Pressure While Scrub Bing, Etc. It Is Located Immediately At The Knee, And The Globular Swelling Projects Anteriorly When The Patient Is Sitting. It Is Usually Quite ...
Hydracetin
Hydracetin. — This Substance Known Also As Pyrodin (not To Be Con Founded With Pyridine), Acetyl-phenyl Hydrozin, Phenyl-acetyl-hydrazin, And Phenacethydrazin—is Produced By The Reaction Of Phenylhydrazin With Acetic Anhydride. It Occurs In Hexagonal Prisms Or Tablets Of A Silky Lustre, With Out Taste Or Odor. It Is Freely Soluble In ...
Hydrocephalus
Hydrocephalus. Definition.—hydrocephalus Means An Accumulation Of Serous Fluid Within The Cranial Cavity. The Condition Is Fre Quently Spoken Of As Dropsy Of The Brain, Or As "water On The Brain," And May Occur As An Acute Or Chronic Affection. The Location Of The Fluid Varies,' But Is More Frequently Found ...
Hydrochloric
Hydrochloric Acid.— Hydro Chloric Acid Is A Clear, Colorless, Pun Gent, Fuming Liquid Having A Strong Acid Odor And Taste. It Is Miscible In All Pro Portions With Alcohol And Water. It Is Incompatible With The Alkalies And Their Carbonates, And With The Salts Of Lime, Lead, And Silver. Preparations ...
Hydrocyanic Acid
Hydrocyanic Acid. — Hydrocy Anic Acid, Also Known As Cyanhydric Or Prussic Acid, Hydrogen Cyanide, And F Or Monitrile, Is Official In A 2-per-cent. Solu Tion (acidum Hydrocyanicum Dilutum, U. S. P.), Which Is A Colorless Liquid, Hav Ing The Odor And Taste Of Bitter Almonds. Dilute Hydrocyanic Acid Is ...
Hydrogen Dioxide
Hydrogen Dioxide. — Hydrogen Dioxide, Peroxide; Peroxide Of Hydrogen; Or Oxygenated Water In A Pure, Undiluted State, Is A Syrupy Liquid Of Unstable Com Position. It Readily Decomposes Into Oxygen And Water. It Is Rarely Met With In Its Pure State. For Medicinal And Surgical Uses A Di Luted Solution ...
Hymiocele Of The
Hymiocele Of The Cord.—in The Young There Is A Condition To Which Atten Tion Has Been Seldom Called, And That Not Infrequently In The Hands Of The General Practitioner Causes A Mistaken Diagnosis Of Strangulation. This Condition Is Hy Drocele Of The Cord. In This Disorder The Swelling Is More ...
Hyper Isthesia
Hyper-isthesia. — Hypenesthesia Is Usually Observed In Individuals Whose Pharynges Are Kept In A Congested State Through Unhygienic Habits, Local Disease, Etc. Thus, Drunkards Almost Invariably Have Very Sensitive Pharynges, While Ton Sillitis And Pharyngitis, And Certain Gas Tric And Hepatic Disorders Tend To Cause Hypertesthesia Through Engorgement Of The ...
Hypertrophied
Hypertrophied Scars.—when A Wound Is Completely Healed, A Cicatrix Or Scar Occupies Its Place. Normally, Two Things Are Observed In A Scar: Its Con Traction And The Gradual Perfecting Of Its Tissues. The Principal Changes By Which The Latter Is Accomplished Are The Re Moval Of All The Rudimental Textures; ...
Hypertrophy Of The Heart
Hypertrophy Of The Heart. Definition.—increase In The Thickness Of The Walls Of The Heart. The Process May Be General, Affecting The Entire Organ. More Often It Is Confined To, Or Predominant In, One Side Of The Heart. The Left Ventricle Is Rather More Often Affected Than The Right. The Amount ...
Hypnotism
Hypnotism. Definition.—hypnotism Is A Subjective Psychical Condition, Composed Of Sis, A Pseudosleep-like State, In Which The Subject's Natural Susceptibility To Sug Gestions Is Increased, And Usually A Hypnotic Period Of Varying Lengths, Dur Ing Which Certain Acts, Suggested By The Hypnotist While The Subject Was In A State Of Hypnosis, ...
Hypodermic
Hypodermic Uses.—this Mode Of Ad Ministration Is Especially Indicated In Cases Of Amemia Requiring Rapid Results And When The Remedy Is Not Well Borne By The Stomach. The Citrate Is Generally Preferred For This Purpose, The Dose Being One-half That Given By The Mouth. Iron, Hypodermically Injected, Is Effect Ive ...
Hysteria
Hysteria. — Gr., The Womb. Definition.—hysteria Is Supposed To Be A Functional Psychoneurosis Due To A Morbid Condition Of The Cerebral, Spinal, And Sympathetic Nerve-apparatus, But Apparently Involving Primarily The Cerebral Cortex, And Is Characterized By Mental, Motor, Sensory, Vasomotor, And Visceral Disorders. Varieties.—a Sharp Distinction Must Be Made Between ...
Hysteria_2
Hysteria May Be Confounded With Neurasthenia, But Both Affections May Exist Simultaneously In Some Cases. The Absence Of Crises, Contractures, Among Other Hysterical Stigmata Serves To Elim Inate The Disease As The Primary One. Attention Called To The Various Motor Disturbances In Neurasthenia That May Be Confounded With Hysteria. Tremor, ...
I Causes Which Are
I. Causes Which Are Present When Pregnancy Is Instituted. - Of The Causes Of Disorder In Pregnancy Which Are Present At The Inception Of The Preg Nant State There Are, As Before Stated, 1. Faults Of Structure.—(a) Struct Urally-defective Pelvis. This May Con Sist In The Various Deformities—pelvis Too Large, ...