Mineral Springs
Mineral Springs. — Considerable Number Of Springs To Which Gouty Pa Tients Commonly Resort Are Strongly Im Pregnated With The Salts Of Soda; It Is Not, Therefore, Surprising That Not Infre Quently The First Result Of The Cure Is To Provoke An Acute Attack Of Gout Or To Aggravate The ...
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous Tests.—with Bisul Phite Of Soda, Acetone, As Well As The Alde Hydes, Combines To A Crystallic Compound In Thin Flakes Resembling Much Those Of Cholesterin, Even By Microscopical Exam Ination. (limpricht.) Acetone In An Alkaline Solution Com Bines With Iodine To Form Iodoform. Freshly Precipitated Oxide Of Mercury Is ...
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous Disordees.—accord Ing To Deaver, Movable Kidney Is To Be Differentiated As Follows: In Appendicitis There Is More Apt To Be Fever And In Creased Pulse-rate, The Rigidity Of The Abdominal Wall Does Not Involve Such A Large Area, There Is A Circumscribed And Acutely-tender Point, The Tenderness Is More ...
Missed Abortion
Missed Abortion. — The Embryo Sometimes Dies As A Result Of The Con Ditions ,c_riving Rise To Abortion, And Re Mains In The Uterine Cavity,—the So Called "missed Abortion." The Active Symptoms Of Miscarriage May Be Pres Ent; Or The Patient May Only Ascertain By The Cessation Of All Foetal ...
Mixed Chancre
Mixed Chancre. — When A Chancre Becomes Inoculated With Chancroid, Its Ulceration Deepens And It Gradually As Sumes The General Characters Of Chan Croid; But, Unless Phagethena Occurs, In Duration Usually Still Persists. Oftener Than Is Usually Supposed, However, The Chancroidal Process Inhibits The Develop Ment Of Chancrous Induration, Or ...
Mo To
Mo To It Neuroses. — Llypermotility (peristaltic Unrest Of The Stomach); Atony, Or Motility; Rumination (merycism) And Regurgitation; Eardiospasm; Incontinence Of The Pylorus; Pylorospasm; Nervous Eructations; Pncumatosis; Nervous Vom Iting. Sensory Neuroses. — Gastric Hyper Ttstresia Is An Increased Irritability Of The Sensory Gastric Nerves. In Presence Of Normal Gastric ...
Mode Of
Mode Of Feeding.—it Is The Experi Ence Of Every Physician Who Has Kept A Record Of His Cases That Fatal, Or Even Severe, Cases Of Diarrhoea Among Infants Fed Entirely At The Breast Are Extremely Rare. Bolt Emphasizes This, When He Says That, Of 1943 Fatal Cases Of Which He ...
Modification Of Cows
Modification Of Cows' Cause Of The Differences Noted Above Be Tween Breast-milk And Cows' Milk, Cer Tain Modifications Must Be Made To Adapt Cows' Milk To The Digestion Of The Aver Acre Infant. Proleids.—most Important Is A Reduc Tion. In The Proportion Of The Proteids. This Can Be Effected By ...
Molded
Molded Splints.—wire Gauze Is A Convenient Material To Mold Over A Limb For A Light Splint. Leather And Felt Are Similarly Made Use Of. After Being Thor Oughly Soaked In Water They Are Molded And Bandaged To The Limb And Allowed To Dry In Place. Gutta-percha Previ Ously Heated And ...
Morbid
Morbid Anatomy.—the Cancer May Begin At The Fundus Or Near The Cystic Duct, But Often The Walls Of The Gall Bladder Are Found Uniformly Thickened. The Diseased Gall-bladder May Form A Large, Smooth Or Nodular Mass Adherent To The Liver And To The Intestines, And In The Centre Of The ...
Morbid
Morbid Anatomy.—the Gall-bladder May Be Distended With Calculi And Little Change Found Except Erosion Of The Mu Cous Membrane, With More Or Less Thick Ening And Infiltration In Places. Chole Cystitis And Pericholecystitis May Cause These Changes To Be More Pronounced. Phlegmonous Inflammation Of The Gall Bladder Sometimes Occurs In ...
Morphinomania And Opium Habit
Morphinomania And Opium Habit. Definition.—morphinomania And The Opium Habit May Be Defined As An Irre Sistible Craze For Morphine, Opium, Or Any Of The Preparations Of The Latter Drug. The Term "morphinism" Is Applied To The Symptom-complex Resulting From The Un Due Use Of Morphine. Symptoms.—though The Effects Of The ...
Motor Nerves
Motor Nerves. — From The Experi Ments Of Vulpian, Reichert, And H. C. Wood, It May Be Considered Proved That In The Warm-, As Well As In The Cold Blooded Animals Strychnine Depresses Di Rectly The Motor Nerves, Although It Is Probable, As Is Insisted Upon By Poulsson, That The ...
Munde
Munde, Assoc. Ed., Annual, '90.] Treatment. — Women Who Object To Becoming Pregnant Represent A Large Pro Portion Of The Cases Of Amenorrhoea Met With. Special Care, Therefore, Should Be Taken Not To Administer Emmenagogues, Under Such Circumstances, Or To Intro Duce Instruments Into The Uterus. In Bona Fide Cases, ...
Muscular Atrophy Following
-muscular Atrophy Following Neuritis.—a History Of Lead Poisoning The Anatomical Relations Between The Re Gion Injured And The Atrophied Muscles Usually Render The Diagnosis Easy. Priznary Muscular Dystrophy In Two Brothers. The Parents Were Healthy. In Both Eases There 1% :is Slow Onset In Child Hood; Atrophy Affecting The Should( ...
Mushroom Poisoning
Mushroom Poisoning. See Toxic Foods. Musk.—musk Is A Secretion Of Folli Cles Contained In A Sac Extending From The Umbilicus To The Prepuce Of The Musk-deer Of Thibet And Other Regions Of India. It Is Very Doubtful Whether Much Of The Musk On Our Markets Is Pure, Al Though The ...
Mustard
Mustard. — Mustard, As Employed 'n Medicine. Is The Flour Of The Mixed Nf White Mustard (sinapis Alba) And Black Mustard (sinapis Nigra). Their Property Mainly Depends Upon A Volatile Oil Which Is Developed When, After The Two Varieties Are Mixed, The Flour Is Moistened With Water At Ordinary Temperature. ...
Myelogenous Or Leucocytic Leu
Myelogenous Or Leucocytic Leu K/emia.—by Myelogenous Or Leueocytic Leukwinia We Understand The Type In Which The Hyperplasia Affects The Mye Loeytes Of The Marrow And The Leucocytes Derived From Them. It Is The Common Type. The Essential Change In The Mar Row Is The So-called Pyoid. Condition, A Marked Overgrowth ...
Myocarditis
Myocarditis. Definition.—myocarditis Is A Change In The Heart-muscle, The Character Of Which May Be Either Inflammatory Or De Generative, Resulting In A Diminished In Tegrity Of The Tissue. Varieties.—the Disease May Either Be Acute Or Chronic, Local Or Diffuse. Tbe Acute And The Chronic Forins Are So Differ Ent In ...
Myopia Etiology
Myopia. Etiology, Pa'l Near Vision The Eye-muscles Are Actively Innervated, And The Eyeball Compressed Laterally Between Them; So That There Is A Constant Tendency To Force It To Elon Gate. The Condition Of Congestion Of The Choroid And Inflammatory Softening Of The Sclera, That Develops Under Excessive Use Of The ...
Myxcedema
Myxcedema. — With Very Few Excep Tions, Cases Of Myxcedema Are Always Attended By Well-marked Atrophy Of The Thyroid Gland. That The Disease Is A Result Of The Absence From The Blood Of The Secretion Of The Thyroid Is A Logical Conclusion Which The Use Of The Gland As A ...
N Evus Capillary Varix
Capillary Varix, N-evus, Erec Tile Tumor, Vascular Growth, Or Mother's Mark.—of These, Two Varie Ties Are Noted, Depending Upon The Size Of The Capillary Vessels Which Make Up The Tumor. When The Capillary Vessels Are Large, They Usually Form A Raspberry Like Tumor, At First Small In Size And Somewhat ...
Naphthol Naphthalin
Naphthalin, Naphthol, And Allied Compounds. — Naphthalin, Naphthalene, Or Tar-eamphor, Is Au Hy Drocarbon Obtained From Coal-tar. It Oc Curs In White Scales, Having A Fatty Lustre, A Strong, Coal-tar Odor, And A Burning, Aromatic Taste. Lt Is Soluble In Alcohol And Ether, The Fixed And Volatile Oils, And In ...
Nasal Diphtheria
Nasal Diphtheria. - Diphtheria Of The Nasal Cavities Is, In Most Eases, Simple Extension From The Fauces, Or Larynx. It May, However, Occur As A Primary Affection. It Is Characterized By More Or Less Complete Obstruction Of The Nares; A Thin, Muco-purulent, And Often Bloody Discharge From The Nostrils; And ...
Nathan S Davis
Nathan S. Davis, Chicago. Adenitis.—gr., A Gland; Itis, Inflammation. Definition.—inflammation Of A Gland. Varieties.—adenitis May Be Acute, Due Almost Invariably To Infection From An Attack Of Angioleucitis And Occasionally To Injury Or Strains; Or Chronic, Resulting From Either Of The Preceding, Especially In Strumous Or Cachectic Persons, And From Slight ...
Natorum
Natorum. Varieties. — The Infection Usually Takes Place Through An Open, Though Often Inconspicuous, Wound: Traumatic Tetanus. When It Occurs Spontaneously Or After Exposure To Cold, No Wound Being Discoverable, It Is Called Idiopathic Tetanus. Symptoms. — Following Some Injury, Slight Or Severe, And Usually Ten Days After—although Longer Periods ...