Local Treatment Of The
Local Treatment Of The Chancre. —important In This Connection Is (1) To Avoid Caustics, (2) To Avoid Grease, And (3) To Keep The Parts As Dry As Possible And Perfectly Clean. Another Important Point In The Management Of Severe Chan Cre Is The Maintenance Of Rest. Move Ment And Friction ...
Locomotor Ataxia
Locomotor Ataxia. Synonyms.—posterior Spinal Sclerosis; Tales Dorsalis. Definition.—an Organic Disease Of The Periphero-central Sensory Nervous System Characterized Symptomatically By Inco Ordination, Sensory And Trophie Disturb Ances; Affections Of Special Nerves, The Optic And Ocular Particularly; And In Volvement Of The Sphincters. Varieties. — In Its Classical Form The Symptom-complex In ...
Lumbar
Lumbar Hernta.—this Rare Form Of Hernia Emerges In The Region Of Petit's Triangle, After Passing Through The Lum Bar Fascia Near The Quadrates Lumborum, And May Result From Strains, Wounds, Abscesses, Or May Appear Spontaneously, Especially In People Of Advanced Age. It Is Easily Reduced And Retained By An Ap ...
Lupus
Lupus. — The Diagnosis Depends, In This Condition, Upon Microscopical Ex Amination. Etiology.—both Men And Animals Are Probably Infected From Vegetables Or Water (israel), From Eating Ears Of Bar Ley, Or Rye, When The Fungus Penetrates Through The Wound Or Abrasion Thus Pro Voked, Or In Many Cases Through Carious ...
Lymphatic Leuniemia
Lymphatic Leuniemi.a. — By Lym Phatic Or Lymphocylic Leulcalnia We Un Derstand The Form Of The Disease In Which The Lytaphocytic Glands, Nodes, And Structures Undergo The Hyperplasia. The ' Lvinphoeytie Structures Comprise The Lymph-glands And Spleen, The Lymph Nodes Of The Bone-marrow, The Tonsils And Subinueous Nodes Of The ...
Malignant
Malignant Epults.—this Is A Much More Dangerous Variety. Beginning Usually At The Socket, It Is Characterized By The Presence Of Irregular Multinucle Ated Mass Of Giant-cells Associated Either With Round Or Spindle Cells, Or Both. It Is Really A Myeloid Sarcoma. It Is Exceed Ingly Vascular, Purplish Red, Grows Much ...
Malignant 1
Malignant.-1. Carcinomata. 2. Sar Comata. Herniae. Diagnosis.—hernia Of The Rectum, Or Rectocele, Is Determined By The Finger Or Sound In The Rectum, Which Readily De Tects The Pouch In The Vagina Formed By The Prolapsed Organ. Hernia Of The Bladder, Or Vesicocele, Is Similarly Deter Mined By A Sound Within ...
Malignant Tumors
Malignant Tumors. — Good Results Have Been Obtained With Methyl-blue In The Treatment Of Epithelioma. It May Either Be Injected, As In The Case Of Super Ficial Neoplasms, When A 10-per-cent. So Lution Is To He Used, Or Given Internally In Doses Varying With The Strength Of The Patient. It ...
Malignant_2
Malignant Disease.-with The Ex Ception Of Epithelioma, Malignant Dis Ease Of The Penis Is Rare, Although Malig Nant Tumors Arc Much More Commonly Observed Than The Benign Varieties. Epithelioma Of The Penis May Exist In The Form Of An Ulcer Or Cauliflower-like Growth. A Redundant Prepuce Or Phi Mosis Predisposing ...
Malposition And Malpresenta
Malposition And Malpresenta Tion.—under This Subdivision We Have The Most Prolific Causes Of Dystocia. The Great Danger Lies Solely In The Fact That When A Malposition More Than A Malpres Entation Occurs It Is Seldom Recognized. We Refer Especially To Occipito-posterior Positions, Than Which No More Trouble Some Complication Arises. ...
Manganese
Manganese. — Manganese (manga Mim) Is A Very Hard Brittle Metal. Having Inctallie Lustre, And A Whitish-gray, Mrtallic Fracture. In The Metallic State ;i Is Not Used In Medicine. 'manganese Dioxide (peroxide Or Bi Nrxide), Or Black Oxide Of Manganese ,mangani Dioxidum, It. S. P.), Is Found Native. Containing At ...
Mastoid Disease
Mastoid Disease. See Cerebral Abscess, Externa L Ear, And Internal Ear. Measles.—from An Old English Word Meaning A Spot. Definition.—measlcs—morbilli Or Ru Bcola—is An Acute, Infectious, Contagious Disease Generally Met With In Children. Symptoms.—afeasles Runs A Less Vari Able Course, As A Rule, Than Does Scarlet Fever And Some Other ...
Material Causes
Material Causes. — Similar Causes To Those Mentioned For The Father Act In The Mother, And With More Certainty If Both Parents Are Affected By Them. In Addition The Following Noxious Influences Are To Be Noted: Tobacco (women Employed In Tobacco Manufac Tories), Carbon Disulphide (women Em Ployed In India-rubber ...
Mechanical Devices To Aid
Mechanical Devices To Aid In In Testinal Anastomosis.—in Addition To The Method Of Anastomosis (uniting The Intestines Directly By Suture), Many Me Chanical Means Have Been Devised To Aid In The Rapidity And Accuracy Of The Pro Cedure, Such As Buttons, Bobbins, Cylin Ders, Collapsable Bulbs, Anastomotic For Ceps, Etc. ...
Mediastino Pericarditis
Mediastino-pericarditis Is A Fre Quent Complication Of Mediastinal Flammation And Usually Terminates In Serous Effusion Before It Is Fully Recog Nized. At Times The Serous Effusion Is Absorbed, As Is The Case In Pleural Ef Fusions Of A Serous Nature. The Afebrile Type Of Pericarditis May Be Fatal, How Ever, ...
Medical
Medical Treatment.—some Writers, Particularly Those Who Do Gall-stone Surgery, Consider Remedial Measures Of A Medicinal Character Altogether Futile. It Is Quite Certain That Valuable Time Should Not Be Taken Up After The Failure Of Drugs If Jaundice And Fever Are Pres Ent, As The Patient May Soon Be Beyond Surgical ...
Medicinal Treatment
Medicinal Treatment. — With The Idea That Aneurism Is Often Due To Syph Ilis, Iodide Of Potassium Has Been Much Employed; Its Probable Action Is That Of Depressing The Heart. The Assertion That Iodide Of Potassium Has The Power Of Lowering Blood-pressure Is Contradicted By The Sphygmomanom Eter. Alexander James ...
Mental Disturbances
Mental Disturbances, Disorders Of The Special Senses, Peripheral Neuritis, Cerebral And Spinal Paralyses May Occur As Post-malarial Manifestations. As A Rule, Their Tendency Is Toward Complete Recovery. Two Cases Of Aphasia Due To Malaria. The Treatment And The Result Showed The Correctness Of Diagnosis. Sornapa S. Lingayet (indian Lancet, Jan. ...
Methacetin
Methacetin. — Methacetin, Para-ace Tanisidin, Or Para-oxymethyl-acetanilid, Is A Homologue Of Phenacetin. This Compound Differs From Phenacetin Only In Containing A Methyl In Place Of An Ethyl Group. It Occurs In A White Micro Crystalline Powder Of A Feeble Bitter Taste, And Is Soluble In Alcohol, Chloro Form, Dilute Acids ...
Method Of
Method Of Weaning.—at Whatever Time Begun, The Process Should Be Grad Ual, If Possible, Lest The Mother Have Trouble With Her Breasts, And The Child With Its Stomach And Bowels. At First A Bottle Should Be Given Tn-vice A Day: If The Food Causes No Indigestion The Num Ber Of ...
Methods Of Making Bacteriolog
Methods Of Making Bacteriolog Ical Examinations. — An Immediate Microscopical Examination Of The Exu Date In Cases Of Suspected Diphtheria Will Often Justify A Positive Diagnosis. A Bit Of Membrane Removed From The Throat By A Swab Is Smeared Upon A Cover-glass Or Slide, Dried, Fixed By Heat, And Then ...
Metritis Subinvolution Of The
Metritis (subinvolution Of The Uterits).—since Metritis And Endometritis In The Septic Sense Nearly Always Co-exist In The Same Case The Reader Is Referred To The Article Od Endo Metritis. Inflammation Of The Uterus Or Appendages Occurring After Labor Inter Feres With Normal Involution, And Gives Rise To A Series Of ...
Microcephalus
Microcephalus. — When A Child Is Born With Complete Ossification Of The Skull, Even At The Fontanelles, Or When Ossification Is Completed Soon After Birth, Microcephalus Generally Results. To Remedy This Condition And Allow A More Rapid Expansion And Growth Of The Brain Lannclongue Has Suggested That A Groove, About ...
Middle Ear
Middle-ear Disorders.— The Use Of Chloride-of-ammonium Vapor In Af Fections Of The Middle Ear Has Been Prompted By Its Effectiveness In The Treatment Of Catarrhal Affections Of The Nasal Mucous Membrane, With Which Many Aural Disorders Are Intimately Con Nected. Chloride-of-ammonium Vapor May Be Generated By Attaching A Richardson Continuous-spray ...
Middle Ear Disorders
Middle-ear Disorders. — A Few Myxoedeniatous Patients, Suffering From Deafness, Having Improved In Hearing During The Administration Of Thyroid Ex Tract, Several Observers Gave This Drug A Trial In Chronic Adhesive Processes Of The Middle Ear Uncomplicated With Myxce Dema. Various Results Have Been Ob Tained, Success Or Non-success Evidently ...
Mild Insoluble
Mild (insoluble). — Zinci Oxidum (u. S. P.), 1 To 5 Grains. Tjnguentum Zinci Oxidi (u. S. P.). Zinci Carbonas Preecipitatas (u. S. P.), 1 To 2 Grains (emetic, 20 Grains). Zincum, U. S. P. (metallic Zinc). Physiological Action. — The Common Action Of The Soluble Salts Of Zinc Is ...
Miliaria Prickly Heat
Miliaria (prickly Heat). Definition.—a Vesicular Eruption Of The Skin Due To Profuse Sweating. Symptoms.—the Eruption Of Miliaria Consists Of Minute Vesicles Developed Near The Pores Of The Skin. These May Be Acuminated And Red (lichen Tropieus) And Discrete And Irregularly Dispersed Over The Surface; Or They May Be Confluent And ...
Miliary Tuberculosis Of Tiie
Miliary Tuberculosis Of Tiie Skin. —this Disease, According To Kaposi, Is Much More Frequently Met With Than One Would Be Led To Suppose From The Pub Lications Upon The Subject, Since He Has Seen Twenty-two Cases In His Clinic And Others In Private Practice. Clinically It Is A Well-defined Disease, ...
Milk Laboratories
Milk - Laboratories. — There Have Been Established In Boston, New York, Philadelphia, And Several Other Cities Laboratories Where It Is Possible To Ob Tain Milk In Which The Separate Ingredi Ents Are Present In Definite Percentages. These Walker-gordon Laboratories Per Form The Same Service In The Preparation Of Milk ...