Nervous
_nervous Disorders.—perhasis.—it Is In The Diseases Of The Nervous System That Acetanilid Has Shown Itself Most Valuable. As An Antispasmodic In Whoop Ing-cough Its Effects Are Quite Marked. In Pertussis It Lessens The Discomfort And Keeps The Paroxysms In Check Better Than Any Other Remedy. I. N. Love (jour. Amer. ...
Nervous
Nervous Drsouners.—strychnine Is Valuable In Functional Nervous Atony Or Depression, But Is Harmful In Organic Dis Ease During The Period Of Acute Inflam Mation Or In Acute Infantile Palsy. In Acute Or Subacute Neuritis The Use Of Strychnine Is Harmful, As The Nerves Are Already Inflamed. In Progressive Lead Palsy ...
Nervous Disorders
Nervous Disorders. — Spasmodic Asthma Is Much Relieved By Eucalyptol Given By Steam-inhalation. Cigarettes Made From Eucalyptus-leaves Alone, Com Bined With Stramonium, Belladonna, To Bacco, Etc., Give Similar Relief. Pertussis Has Been Relieved By A Mixture Of 1 Part Each Of Eucalyptus-oil And Terebene, And 6 Parts Of Alcohol, Used ...
Nervous Disorders
Nervous Disorders. — It Is In The Treatment Of Neuralgia That Antipyrine Finds Its Best Place. In Hemicrania, Sci Atica, Lumbago, The Fulgurant Pains Of Locomotor Ataxia, The Neuralgic Pains Of Dysmenorrhoea When Of Ovarian Origin, And In Pains Of Nervous Origin Generally, Antipyrine Will Be Found Of Great Value, ...
Nervous Disorders_2
Nervous Disorders. — In Epilepsy The Inhalation Of Amyl-nitrite During The Aura Will Ward Off The Paroxysm. In Hysterical Paroxysm, Catalepsy, And Hys Tero-epilepsy, The Attacks May Be Cut Short By Repeated Inhalations Of The Same Remedy; It Is Especially Useful In The Emergencies Of These Diseases. In Tetanus A ...
Nervous Vomiting
Nervous Vomiting May Occur As An Idiopathic Condition, Without Primary Gastric Disorder Or Obvious Reflex Cause, Then Dependent Upon A Neuropathic Con Dition; Or It May Have Origin In A Ire Fleeted Disturbance, Such As In Disease Of The Brain (meningitis, Tumor, Etc.); Dis Ease Of The Spinal Cord (tabes, ...
Nervous_2
Nervous System.—therapeutic Doses Stimulate, While Large Or Toxic Doses Depress Or Even Paralyze, The Nervous Mechanism. The Sensory Apparatus Is Usually The First Affected, The Reflex And Motor Following In Order. The Reverse May Occur. Authorities Agree That Ar Senic Acts Directly Upon The Nerve-centres Through Changes In The Cell-elements. ...
Nervous_3
Nervous Anorexia.—in This Neuro Sis Both Appetite And The Sensation Of Hunger Is Completely And Permanently Absent And An Absolute Aversion For All Food May Exist. The Patient Becomes Greatly Emaciated; So That Her Appearance Suggests A Wasting Disease, Such As Tuber Culosis Pulmonum. The Treatment Consists In Searching For ...
Neuralgia
;neuralgia. — Sciatica, Pleurodynia, Etc., And All Forms Of Muscular Rheuma Tism Are Best Treated By Hypodermic In Jection. For All, Except Neuralgia Of The Head And Face, '/, To 1/, Grain Should Be I Injected Over The Seat Of The Pain; For I The Two Latter, The Injection Should ...
Neuralgia And Gastralgia
Neuralgia And Gastralgia. — In These Disorders Arsenic Is Sometimes Of Value, Especially When Combined With Counter-irritation. Arsenic Is One Of The Best Agents For The Cure Of Simple Gastralgia. Recovery Is Steadily Attained In Ordinary Cases With A Pill Of Grain Of Arsenous Acid And 2 Grains Of Extract ...
Neuralgia And Migraine
Neuralgia And Migraine.- The Several Forms Of Neuralgia And Headache Bear A Close Etiological And Pathological Relationship To One Another, Being The Outcome Of Functional Or Neu Ritic Disorder Of The Centres Or Periph Eral Portions Of The Sensory' Cranial Or Spinal Nerves. The Differentiated Vari Eties Of These Painful ...
Neuralgia Of The Fifth
Neuralgia Of The Fifth Pair.— Neuralgia Of The Fifth Pair Of Cranial Nerves Is Also Known As Trifacial Neural Gia, Facial Neuralgia, Tic Douloureux, Etc. Neuralgia Of The Fifth Pair Is More Fre Quent Than All Other Forms Of Neuralgia Combined, And Is, From A Clinical Stand Point, The Most ...
Neuralgias Of The Nerves
Neuralgias Of The Nerves Of The Legs, Described As Crural, Plantar, Meta Tarsal, Etc., Present The Usual Features Of Neuralgia In General And Need Not Here Be Elaborated. Treatment.—the Treatment Of The In Tercostal Form Of Neuralgia, As Of The Two Preceding Varieties, Is That Of Neuralgia In General. Especially ...
Neurasthenia
Neurasthenia. — Gr. Rapov, Nerve; Daoirria, Weakness. Definition.—functional Exhaustion Or Debility Of The Tissues, Especially Those Of The Nervous System, Due Primarily To Impaired Metabolism And Secondarily To Autointoxication. Symptoms. — The Most Prominent Symptom Of Neurasthenia Is Fatigue, Often Varying In Degree With The Dura Tion Of The Case, ...
Nitrites
Nitrites (including Amyl-nitrite). —the Nitrites May Be Divided Into Two Grotips: The Inorganic, Or Mineral, In Cluding The Nitrites Of Sodium (officinal), Barium, Calcium, Potassium, Strontium, And The Compound Salt Of Cobalt And Potassium; And The Organic Group, Which Contains The Nitrites Of Methyl, Ethyl, Propyl, Butyl, And Amyl (officinal). ...
Nitrous
Nitrous Oxide.—nitrous Oxide (ni Trogen Monoxide, Protoxide Of Nitrogen, Laughinggas) Is A Colorless, Transparent Gas Of Neutral Reaction, Sweetish Taste, And Almost Odorless. It May Be Made By Heating Ammonium Nitrate In A Flask Or Retort, Which Decomposes It Into Nitrous Oxide Gas And Water. To Free It From Any ...
Non Official Fluid Preparations
Non-official Fluid Preparations. —liquor Morphinm Bimeconatis (b. P.), 5 To 40 Minims. Liquor Morphim? Sulphatis Majendie (16 Grains To Fluidounce), 3 To 10 Min Ims By Hypodermic Injection. Mistura Magnesim Et Asafcetid (de Wee's Carminative—magnesium Carb., 5 Parts; Tincture Of Asafoetida, 7 Parts; Tincture Of Opium, 1 Part; Sugar, 10 ...
Obersteiner
Obersteiner, Assoc. Ed., Annual, '96.] Locality Of Anresthesia Studied In Fifty Cases Of Tabes, Ten Of Which Had Aman Rosis. Four Principal Types Found: 1. Thoracic, Present In 40 Eases Either As An Horizontal Zone In The Nipple-region Of Either Side, Which If It Reaches To The Axillary Line, May ...
Obesity
Obesity. — The Selective Action On Adipose Tissues Shown To Attend The In Creased Metabolism Brought About By Thyroid, And The Decided Increase In The Nitrogen Excretion Sustain The Use Of This Agent In Obesity. The Effects Have Been Irregular, However, Some Patients Re Sponding Readily To The Influence Of ...
Obstruction By Foreign Bodies
Obstruction By Foreign Bodies And Concretions.—the History Of The Case Akne Affords Information, The Varying Greatly. It Is Only %, Hen A Sufficiently Large Foreign Body Be ,onics Firmly Impacted To Excite Tumefac Non In The Intestinal Tissues That It Gives Rise To Symptoms Of Acute Obstruction Similar To Those ...
Obstruction From The Outlet
Obstruction From The Outlet Of The Stoaiach.—pyloric Stenosis Is Monly Originated Either By A Contracting Cicatrix Of A Healed Ulcer Situated Near The Pylorus Or By Carcinomatous Tion Of The Pylorus. Simple Hypertrophy And Hyperplasia Of The Pylorus Ciated With Ulcer And Cancer Sometimes Occurs, And Naturally Tends To Produce ...
Obturator
Obturator Hernia.—this Is A Rare Variety Of Hernia, Which Protrudes Through The Obturator Foramen Between Obturator Externus And Pectinous, Push Ing Before It The Obturator Fascia. The Femoral Artery And Vein Pass Externally And In Front Of It, The Adductor Longus Forming The Opposite Wall. The Obtura Tor Artery And ...
Occlusion Or Obliteration
Occlusion Or Obliteration Of The Prwputial Orifice May Not Be Detected Im Mediately After Birth, But The Appearance Of A Tumor At The End Of-the Penis Due To The Accumulation Of Urine Will Soon Call Attention To The Trouble. The Treat Ment Of This Condition Is Circumcision. Short Fr2enum.—this Congenital ...
Omit
Omit. Salicylic Acid Used In Twenty-five Cases In The Form Of A 20-per-cent. Ointment Rubbed Into The Skin. In Most Of The Cases The Therapeutic Effect Was Most Decided Hasenfeld (pester Med.-chir. Presse, No. 47, '04). In Articular Rheumatism The Following Ointment Is Valuable:— 3 Salicylic Acid, 45 Grains. Oil ...
Operation
Operation. - The Amount Of Opera Tive Intervention Will Depend Upon The Condition Of The Patient. Very Com Monly The Surgeon Is Called In Late And The Patient Is In A Much Weakened And Collapsed Condition; In Such Cases The Use Of A General Am Esthetic Is Full Of Danger, ...
Operation
Operation. — The Most Promising Procedure Is That Of Halsted, Who Con Tends That The Pectoralis-major Muscle Entire, Except Its Clavicular Portion, Should Be Excised In Every Case Of Cancer Of The Breast, Because The Operator Is En Abled Thereby To Remove In One Piece All Of The Suspected Tissues. ...
Operative
Operative Teciinique.—incision.— The Incision That Is Generally Preferred At Present Is That Recommended By Mc Burney (see B, Colored Plate). It Crosses An Imaginary Line (a) Drawn From The Anterior Superior Spine Of The Ilium (d) To The Umbilicus (a) At The Juncture Of Its Middle And Lower Thirds, And ...
Ophthalmia
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.—iii This Disease, Purulent Conjunctivitis, The Dis Charge Is Much More Copious And Puru Lent. Pseudomembranous Conjunctivitis Is Never Found Among The Newborn. Pathology.—the Local Inflammation Must Be Regarded As A Severe Form Of Catarrh Only, In Which, Owing To The In Tensity Of The Inflammatory Process, The Secretion ...
Ophthalmic Disorders
Ophthalmic Disorders. — The Phy Sostigmine Salts Are Used Extensively In Ophthalmic Practice On Account Of Their Myotic Power And Their Power To Relieve High Intra-ocular Tension. It Is Not Well Borne In Acute Inflammation, Or If Much Ciliary Congestion Is Present (m. L. Fos Ter). It Is Positively Contra-indicated ...