Palliative Treatment
Palliative Treatment Will Be Re Quired Where There Is A Positive Refusal On The Part Of The Patient To Submit To An Operation, And In Persons Whose Gen Eral Health Is Broken Down And In Whom The Reparative Powers Are Inadequate. Chronic Alcoholism, Albuminuria, Dia Betes, Malignant Disease, Etc., Are ...
Paracentesis Thoracis
Paracentesis Thoracis. — Aspira Tion Or Simple Puncture With A Long Hy Podermic Needle Is Performed As Fol Lows:— 1. The Skin In The Intercostal Space Selected Is Cleansed With Soap And Warm Water, Followed By Alcohol, And A Car Bolic-acid Solution Of To 100. 2. The Needle Is Asepticized ...
Paraldehyde
Paraldehyde. — Paraldehyde (pa Raldehydum, U. S. P.) Is A Polymeric Form Of Ethylic Aldehyde. It Occurs As A Colorless Liquid (crystallizes Below 50.9° F.), Having A Peculiar, Aromatic, Suffocat Ing Odor And Warm Taste. It Is Soluble In Alcohol, Ether, Oils, And Chloroform, And In S To 10 Parts ...
Paralysis Of The Lateral
Paralysis Of The Lateral Crico Arytenotd Muscles.—this Variety Of Paralysis Is That Generally Termed "hys Terical Aphonia," Owing To Its Prevalence Among The Female Sex And The Association It So Often Presents With Disorders Pecul Iar To Them, Neurotic And Uterine. It Usually Comes On Suddenly, The Aphonia Being Generally ...
Parenchymatous
Parenchymatous Injections.— These Are Still Considerably Employed In Hydrocele After Evacuation Of The Fluid. The Iodine Is Supposed To Excite Local In Flammation And Obliteration Of The Cavity. Hydatid Cysts Can Also Be Treated Ad Vantageously In The Same Manner, A Few Drops Of The Tincture Injected In The Cavity ...
Paroxysmal
Paroxysmal Symptoms.—the Con Vulsion Is The Most Prominent Symptom Of Hysteria, And, While It Does Not Occur In The Majority Of Cases Of This Disease, It Is The One Symptom First Thought Of By Many, Especially Among The Laity, When The Term Hysteria Is Mentioned. The Hysterical Convulsion Of The ...
Parturition
Parturition-. - Cott011-toot Bark Is Mild And Certain In Action, And Does Not Produce The Well-known, Rapid Con Vulsive Action Of Ergot; But, On The Con Trary, Seems To Greatly Stimulate The Uterus To Normal Function. It Acts Not Alone Upon The Uterine Muscles, But Also Upon The Secretory Function. ...
Passage Of Gall Stones Outside
Passage Of Gall-stones Outside The Ordinary Channels.—the Synap Toms Will Depend Upon The Course Taken By The Calculus. In Some Instances The Stone Passes Through The Ulcerated Wall, And, Owing To The Presence Of Pyogenic Organisms, An Abscess Forms, Which Gives Rise To Symptoms Similar To Those Of Ap Pendicitis; ...
Passage Of Gall Stones Through
Passage Of Gall-stones Through Tiie Natural Channels.—gall-stoiles May- Remain For Years In The Gall-bladder Without Producing Any Marked Symp Toms, Although Bile-pigment May Be Found In Small Quantities In The Urine. It May, As Dr. Adler Has Pointed Out, Pass Into The Circulation Through The Base Of The Ulcer. It ...
Passive
Passive Effusions.—pilocarpitic Has Been Used In Dropsy, Ascites, And Hydro Thorax. In Dropsy Of Renal Origin It Is A Valuable Asrent, But When Due To Cardiac Trouble It Is Too Depressing. In Hydro -thorax It Is Of Considerable Value, But Thoracentesis Is. Perhaps, Best, And Ela Zterium Or Salines Come ...
Pecial Treatment
Pecial Treatment. — Interstitial Kcratitis Especially Requires The Employ N.t.nt Mydriaties On Account Of The Tou.knev To Involvement Of The Iris. Atropine May Be Used In Solution Of: A:ropine Sulphate, 1; Distilled Water, Co. The Frequency And Freedom Of Its Ap P:ieations May Be Limited By The Tend Ency To ...
Pelvic Deformities
Pelvic Deformities. — Pelvic De Formities Are Comparatively Rare In This Country. Relative Pelvic Contraction, I.e., A Pelvis Of Average Size Which Is Yet Too Small To Admit Of The Passage Of An Overlarge Child,—however, Is Common Enough. In Truth, There Is No Pelvis, Except One Very Much Contracted In ...
Pemphigus
Pemphigus. Definition.—this Is A Comparatively Rare Skin Affection Characterized By The Formation Of Blebs, Or Bullm, Containing A Serous Or Sero-purulent Fluid, And Often Attended By Constitutional Disorders. Varieties. — Three Main Varieties Of Pemphigns Are Recognized: (1) Pemphi Gas Rulgaris, Which May Be Acute Or Chronic And Usually Terminates ...
Pempiiigus Neonatorum
Pempiiigus Neonatorum Is Seldom, If Ever, Present At Birth, And Does Not De Velop Before The Third Day, Rarely Later Than The Fourteenth. The Eruption, Un Less Complications Occur, Is Not Accom Panied By Fever, And Consists Of Round Or Oval Blisters Upon Apparently Normal Skin. These Blisters Are At ...
Pentane
Pentane. — Pentane, Or Amyl-hy Dride, Is A Fluid Preparation Obtained From Coal-tar Or Petroleum. It Occurs As A Colorless, Inflammable Liquid, Having A Pleasant, Fruity Odor, And Is Soluble In Alcohol. Pentane Is An Hydrocarbon (c5h,2), The Fifth In Number Of The Paraffin Series. It Was Proposed As An ...
Perforation
Perforation Lx Gastric Ulcer.— Perforation May Perhaps Be Considered The Most Dangerous Complication Of Gas Tric Ulcer. Welch Has Placed The Entire Mortality From Gastric Ulcer At 15 Per Cent., And He States That G.g Per Cent. Of The Cases Die From Perforation. The Diagnosis Is Usually Not Difficult. It ...
Perineal Litiiotomy Lateral
Perineal Litiiotomy (lateral). The Instruments Required For This Opera Tion Are A Grooved Staff, Lithotomy-knife, Probe-pointed Bistoury, Lithotomy-for Ceps, Lithotomy-scoop, A Large-sized Pure Rubber Catheter, A Catheter En Chemise, Haemostatic Forceps, Scissors, Ligatures, And Sutures. The Patient Having Been Etherized, The Vesical Sound Is Introduced, And If The Stone Is ...
Perinehieic Abscess
_ Perinehieic Abscess In Most Cases Results From The Extension Of Suppura Tive Processes In The Kidney Itself, But It May Follow Operative Intervention Or In Flammatory Processes In Neighboring Or Gans. Not Seldom It Arises From A Local Infection Of The Perinephric Tissues. The Abscess Tends To Burrow Along ...
Period Of
Period Of Infection.—the Period Of Infection Is Long. The Disease Is Not In Fectious During The Period Of Incubation, But It May Be So From The First Appear Ance Of Changes In The Throat. The Most Actively-contagious Period Is At The Height Of The Febrile Stage: On The Third, Fourth, ...
Period Of Incubation
Period Of Incubation". — No Fixed Period Of Incubation Can As Yet Be Given To Malaria Acquired In The Natural Way. While In The Majority Of Cases It Would Appear To Average From Six To Fourteen Or Twenty Days, Yet Instances Have Been Re Ported In Which The Disease Developed ...
Periostitis Inflammation
Inflammation, Periostitis, Ostitis, Caries, And Necrosis May Occur In The Cranial Bones. The Symptoms Are Very Similar To Those Produced By The Same Processes Elsewhere. In Necrosis Of The Cranial Bones There Is Always The Dan Terior Branch Of The Middle Meningeal Artery And The Bifurcation Of The Syl Vian ...
Peripheral Nerves
Nerves, Peripheral, Diseases Of.—the General Conditions Of Disease To Which Any Or All Of The Peripheral Nerves Are Liable Are: 1. Circulatory Dis Orders. 2. Inflammation. 3. Degenera Tion. 4. Functional Disorders. 5. Neo Plasms. Circulatory Disorders. The Circulatory Disorders Of Any Im Portance Are: (a) Annaia. (b) Hyper Wrnia. ...
Peripheral Troubles
Peripheral Troubles. - Contract Ures.—these May Develop Some Weeks After The Attack, And Are Usually Spastic And Functional Rather Than Organic. Tbey Are Associated With Great' Increase Of The Tendon-reflexes. By A Slow, Steady Counter-pressure Complete Ex Tension Can Be Effected, But The Part Quickly Becomes Flexed Again On Relaxa ...
Pernicious
Pernicious .an.lemia.—it Is Very Doubtful Whether Bone-marrow Can In Any Way Be Compared To Arsenic As A Remedial Agent In Pernicious Anwritia. The Belief That The Active Agent Of Mar Row Is Iron Would Sustain This View, Iron Being As Useless In True Pernicious Anm Mia As It Is Useful ...
Pernicious
Pernicious Ana3iia.—in This Affec Tion The Skin Is More Yellow Than Green Ish. Blood-examination Shows A Relative Increase Of Hmmoglobin And The Pres Ence Of Gigantoblasts; There Is Also Marked Oligocythmmia. Leucocytelemia. — The Microscope Shows The Characteristic Increase Of White Corpuscles, Their Ratio To The Red Cor Puscles Becoming ...
Pernicious Anemia
Anemia, Pernicious. Definition,—a Form Of Anaemia Which Tends Toward A Fatal Issue. Symptoms.—the Most Evident Symp Tom Is Extreme Pallor Of The Face And Body, Which Gradually Assume A Lemon Yellow Tint. This Yellowish Color Deep Ens As The Case Progresses; It May Appear Suddenly, But In The Majority Of ...
Pertussis Whooping Cough
Pertussis (whooping-cough). Definition.—an Acute Infectious Dis Ease Manifesting Itself, At The Onset, By Catarrhal Symptoms Confined Chiefly To The Upper Respiratory Passages, Larynx, And Trachea, And Of Which The Cough Toward The End Of The Second Week As Sumes A Peculiar Convulsive Character Known As The "whoop." Symptoms.—after A Variable ...
Petroleum
Petroleum. — Petroleum (rock-oil, Coal-oil, Mineral Oil) Is Found In Various Regions Of The World. In The Natural State It Varies In Color From A Light Green Or Red To Black, More Rarely Clear. It Has A Distinctive Odor. Some Specimens Have A Very Offensive Odor Due To The Pres ...
Pfienic Acid
Pfienic Acid.) In The Treatment Of Children Where An Antacid Is Required And Constipation Is Present, The Bicarbonate Is Better Than Lime-water. In Yeasty Vomiting, Especially When Sarcinw Are Present In The Vomited Mat Ters, The Sulphite Is Often Curable In Doses Of From 5 To 20 Grains. The Vom ...
Pharyngo Faucial
Pharyngo-faucial Infiltration.— About The Time The Roseola Appears, Times Shortly Before Or After It, There Is A Development Of Inflammatory Engorge Ment Of The Tonsils, Pharynx, And Soft Palate, Involving Usually The Whole Fan Cial Surface. The Explanation Of The Volvement Of The Lances And Pharynx Characteristic Of Secondary Syphilis, ...
Pharynx Nose
Nose, Pharynx, And Lary.nx.—the Application Of Cocaine (5 Per Cent. To 20 Per Cent.) In The Mucous Membrane Of These Parts Is 'useful Not Only For Thera Peutic Purposes And Operations, But Also For Purposes Of Examination And Diag Nosis. Before Scarifications, Etc., Cocaine May Be Applied In A Powder; ...
Phies
Phies. — Muscular Atrophy.— The Fact That Two Cases Of Muscular Atrophy Were Greatly Improved And Reported As Such By So Reliable An Observer As Lepine Would Indicate That A Portion, At Least, Of These Cases Can Be Benefited. Thyroid Gland Employed In Two Cases Of Muscular Atrophy And Successful ...
Phlyctenular Keratitis
Phlyctenular Ker.a.titis Occurs Conunonly In Young Children, In Close Association With Phlyctenular Conjunc Tivitis. The Phlyetenule Containing Cells And Fluid Arises On The Surface Of The Cornea, And In A Few Hours, Or A Day Or Two, Ruptures And Gives Rise To A Small Ulcer. Later A Few Branching Vessels ...
Phosphoric And Hypophos Phorous
Phosphoric And Hypophos Phorous Acids.—phosphoiic Acid As Used In Medicine Is Orthophosphoric Acid. The Official Acid Is A Colorless, Syrupy Liquid, Without Odor, Having An Intensely-acid Taste. It Should Not Con Tain Less Than 85 Per Cent. Absolute Orthophosphoric Acid. It Is Soluble In All Proportions In Water And In ...
Phosphorus And Antidote To
Antidote To Morphine, Phosphorus And Snake-bite.—ii. Winiarn Moor, Of New York, Has Shown That Potash Per Manganate Is A Direct Chemical Antidote For Morphine, But Is Without Effect On Atropine, Cocaine, Veratrine, Pilocarpine, Aconitine, And Strychnine. An Equal Quantity, Grain For Grain, Of Perman Ganate Is Antidotal To Morphine. In ...
Phospraturia
Phospraturia. Definition. — The Daily Amount Of Phosphoric Acid Excreted With The Urine Amounts To 2 Or 3 Grammes; It Is Then Combined With Soda, Potash, Lime, And Magnesia. Phosphaturia Occurs When, Soon After Evacuation, A Sediment Is Formed Consisting Of Phosphates Of Lime And Magnesia. In Some Cases The ...
Physical
Physical Signs.—these Depend Chiefly On The Nature And Amount Of The Exudation. (a) In Pleurisy With Recent Fibrinous Exudation On Inspection The Movements Of The Affected Side Are Seen To Be Restrained On Account Of The Pain; The Expansion May Be Jerky. The Patient Often Lies With The Body Bent ...
Physical Characters Of The
Physical Characters Of The Syph Iltdes.—the Most Important Point In The Study Of The Syphilides Is Their Gen Eral Characteristics. These Characteris Tics Are [keyes]: (1) Polymorphism Of All Lesions, Including The Chancre; (2) Rounded Form Of The Eruptive Lesions And Ulcers; (3) Lividity Or "ham-color," Be Coming Coppery, Then ...
Physiological Action
Physiological Action. — According To D. W. Prentiss, Muscarine First Pro D Aces Increased Excitability Of The Brain, And Later Reduced Excitability, Merging, In Cases Of Poisoning, Into Paralysis Of The Brain-cells. The Action On The Heart Is Similar To That Upon The Brain-centres: First, Increased Frequency, Followed By Slow, ...
Picric
Picric Acid.—picric Acid (trinitro Phenol; Picronitric, Picrinic, Carbazotic, Nitrozanthic, Or Nitrophenisic Acid) Is Ob Tained From Phenol (carbolic Acid) By Nitration. It Occurs In Yellowish, Lus Trous, Flat Crystals, Without Odor, But Of An Intensely-bitter Taste. It Is Soluble In Alcohol, Ether, Chloroform, Benzene, And Slightly Soluble In Water. It ...