Spontaneous Gangrene
Spontaneous Gangrene Is Rarely Ob Served. It May Be Met With In Subjects Who Apparently Are In Excellent Health, But Affected, As Autopsies Have Shown, By Arteriosclerosis. The Arteries Are Narrowed, And Thrombi Are Sometimes Widely Disseminated Through The Af Fected Limb. This Renders Spontaneous Gangrene Particularly Malignant, And Amputation ...
Sprains
Sprains. — A Joint Is Said To Be Sprained When It Is Twisted Violently So That Its Ligaments Are Either Over Stretched Or Partially Torn, With Or With Out Displacement Of The Osseous Surfaces. Sprains Of The Wrists And Ankle-joints Are Most Common. Symptoms. — The First Symptom Of Sprain ...
Sprouting
Sprouting Potatoes.—these May At Times Contain A Poison, Solanine, An Al Kaloid Of Its Botanical Group, Resembling In Effects Those Of Belladonna, Stra Monium, Hyoscyamus, And Tobacco. Pfuhl Recently Reported The Cases Of Sixty German Soldiers Who Became Ill At The Same Time With Symptoms Of Gastro Enteritis After Partaking ...
Status Lymphaticus And Dis
Status Lymphaticus And Dis Orders Of The Lymphatic Sys Tem. General Considerations.—in Addition To The Closed Channels Which Carry The Blood In A Continuous Round Through The Arteries, Capillaries, And Veins, There Is Another Complementary System Of Vessels, Found In Every Tissue And Organ Of The Body Supplied With Blood-vessels, ...
Staxis
Staxis Are Recommended. Transfusion Sometimes Becomes Necessary, But It Should Be Conducted With Unusual Care, Owing To The Morbid Condition Of The Vascular Walls. The Best Hxmostatic Is The Transfusion Of Entire Blood, Of Which But A Small Quantity Will Some Times Stop An Otherwise Uncontrollable Hmniorrhage. (llayem.) Case In ...
Stimulants
Stimulants. — Alcohol Is Given By Some In A Routine Way In All Cases. The Practice Should Certainly Be Condemned. Alcohol, Like Other Drugs, Produces Dif Ferent Effects On Different Persons, And It Is Not Known How Much Digestion And Assimilation May Be Interfered With, Especially In Patients Who Have ...
Strabismus
Strabismus. — From The Greek (tpai.31(y6c, To Squint. Synonyms.—squint; Heterotropia. Definition.—the Condition In Which Both Eyes Do Not Look Toward The Same Point; But When One Eye Fixes A Certain Point The Other Is Turned Elsewhere. Symptoms.—the False Position Of The Eye That Is Not Turned Toward The Object Looked ...
Strangulated A
Strangulated.-a Strangulated Fem Oral Hernia May Sometimes Be Reduced By Taxis When The Thigh Is Flexed And Ro Tated Inward, Which Position Causes The Saphenous Opening To Be Relaxed Periph Erally. No Excessive Compression Or Upward Pressure Should Be Exercised, However, Operation Being Less Hazardous Than Such A Proceeding. Radical ...
Structure
Structure. — The Internal Structure Of Glandular Cysts Justifies Their Division Into The Areolar, Unilocular, And Multi Locular. The Glandular Cysts, Yirchow Says, Originate In The Invagination Or Proliferation Of The Epithelium In The Stroma. Continuation Of These Processes Causes The Formation Of A Bered, Glandular, Or Adenomatous Cyst. An ...
Strychnine
Strychnine. — Strychnine (strych Nina, F. S. P.) Is An Alkaloid Obtained From Nux Vomica (strychnos Nux-romica; Nat. Ord., Loganiacece) And From Other Plants Belonging To The Same Natural Order. Strychnine Occurs In Small, Hard Crystals Having A Very Bitter Taste, And Is Soluble In 7 Parts Of Chloroform, In ...
Subcutaneously
Subcutaneously. — Bonjean's Ergo Tine (fr. Cod.) And Squibb's Ergotine Are Especially Prepared For Hypodermic Use, 5 Parts Being Dissolved In 7 Parts Each Of Glycerin And Water And Then Fil Tered, 3 To 12 Grains (representing 120 Grains Of Crude Ergot) Of The Ergotine Being The Proper Dose. Physiological ...
Substitutes For
Substitutes For Iodofor3i.—quite A Large Number Of Substances Have Been Recommended As Possessed Of The Thera Peutic Properties Of Iodoform, Without Presenting Its Untoward Features. The Best Known Of These Are The Following: Airol, A Gallate Of Bismuth And Iodine, Is A Light-grayish-green Powder, Stable In Dry Air, But When ...
Sues
Sues. — External To Living Tissues The Conditions For The Growth Of The Bacillus Are Extremely Unfavorable: After An Ex Posure To Sunlight Of From A Few Minutes To Several Hours, Or To Diffused Daylight From Five To Seven Days, Its Growth Is Retarded, Its Virulence Modified, And It Is ...
Sulphonal
Sulphonal. — Sulphonal (sulfonal, Di-ethyl-sulphone-di-methyl-methane) Is Obtained From Anhydrous Acetone By Anhydrous Ethyl-mercaptane With A Stream Of Dry Hydrochloric-acid Gas. It Occurs In Thick, Tasteless, Odorless, Color Less Prisms, Soluble In G5 Parts Of Cold And In 2 Parts Of Boiling Alcohol, In 135 Parts Of Ether, In 500 Parts ...
Suprapubic Lithotomy
Suprapubic Lithotomy. — The In Struments Required For This Operation Are Scalpels, Dissecting-forceps, Haemostats, Retractors, Rectal Bag, Lithotomy-for Ceps, Lithotomy-scoop, Catheters, Syringe, Stone-searcher, Scissors, Needles, Sutures, Etc. The Preparation Of The Patient Has Al Ready Been Described. After Anaesthesia The Presence Of The Stone Should Be De Termined Before Proceeding. ...
Sur Gery Of Stomach
Stomach And Intestines, Sur Gery Of. Surgery Of The Stomach. — When Possible, It Is Specially Desirable To Clear The Intestinal Tract By A Thorough Purge, And, As Preliminary To Most Operations, It Is Of Great Advantage To Wash Out The Stomach. These Measures Are Of Unusual Importance In Gastric ...
Surgical
Surgical Tuberculosis.— It Is In The Treatment Of Tubercular Conditions Amenable To Surgical Interference That Iodoform Finds Its Main Application As A Curative Agent. In The Treatment Of Joint-tuberculosis Our Associate Editor, Dr. L. S. Freeman, Recommends, With Many Other Able Sur Geons, A 10-per-cent. Suspension In Olive Oil. His ...
Surgical
(surgical). Diseases Of The Kidneys (coxrusted). Movable And Floating Kidney. The Term Movable Kidney Is Used To Designate Those Cases Of Displaced And Not Fixed Kidney In Which The Movements Are Entirely Subperitoneal. In Floating Kidney The Movements Are Intra-abdomi Nal; The Organ Is Surrounded By Peri Toneum And Has ...
Surgical 11
Surgical.-11, After Treatment With Iodine Or With Thyroid Extract, No Effect Is Produced, Then Operation Becomes Ad Visable. Three Months Considered Ample Time For The Exhibition Of Drugs, When, Failing Improvement, Operation Becomes Advis Able. Pressure On The Trachea Causing Dyspncea, And On The Recurrent Causing Hoarseness, Indicate Early Operation. ...
Surgical Diseases Of Joints
Joints, Surgical Diseases Of. Varieties, — The Affections To Which Joints Are Liable Are Almost All Clue To Inflammation And Its Results. Their Character Varies According To The Causes Which Originate Them And The Extent To Which The Disease Progresses. If The In Flammatory Action Is Confined To The Lin ...
Surgical Diseases Of Muscles
Muscles, Surgical Diseases Of. Strain And Rupture. What Is Usually Termed A "sprain" Signifies An Undue Stretching Of The Mus Cular Fibres Or Their Tendinous Extrem Ities. It May Vary In Severity From A Slight Overextension To Absolute Rupture. The Rupture In Severe Cases May Be Par Tial Or Complete, ...
Surgical Diseases Of Urinary
Urinary System, Surgical Diseases Of (connsuen). Diseases Of The Urethra. Anomalies Of The Urethra.—the Roof Of The Urethra May Be Absent, Epispadias; Or The Floor May Be Deficient, Hypospadias. The Condition Of Epispadia Is Associated With Exstrophy Of The Bladder. These Conditions Arc Not Infrequent, Hypo Spadia, However, Being The ...
Surgical Measures
Surgical Measures. — Among The Surgical Measures, Pneumonotomy, Or Simple Incision Into The Lung, Is The Preferable Operation. It Is Indicated, According To Reclus, When The Cavity, Though Distinctly Circumscribed, Is Large, And When There Are Evidences Of Tox Winia Through Retained Putrid Contents. Case Of A Man Treated Surgically ...
Surgical Scarlet
Surgical Scarlet Fever.—patients Who Have Undergone Surgical Operations Are Unquestionably Very Susceptible To Scarlet Fever. Such Scarlet Fever, Ever, Is Not Essentially Different From The Usual Disease. It Is Simple Scarlet Fever In A Surgical Case. It Is, No Doubt, True, As Osler Has Shown, That The Eruption Which Has ...
Surgical Treatment Of Abdo3iinal
Surgical Treatme.nt Of Abdo3iinal Dropsy Following Cirrhosis Of The Liver. — The Operation Devised By Talma Consists Of An Abdominal Section, Preferably Between The Umbilicus And Ensiform Cartilage, Evacuation Of The Ac Euinnlated Fluid, And Scraping Of The Parietal Peritoneum With A Curette Or Rubbing Off The Epithelium With A ...
Surgical Uses
Surgical Uses. — Iodine Possesses Marked Antiseptic Properties, As First Shown By Liebig. Fibrin Immersed In Iodized Water Does Not Undergo Putre Faction. Pus Treated With Iodine Does Not Have The Fwtid Odor After Several Days Which Can, Without The Iodine, Be Detected In A Few Hours When Exposed To ...
Surgical_2
Surgical Disorders.— Carbolic-acid Solution (1 To 20) Has Been Used In Sur Gery As An Antiseptic Lotion And Also To Keep Instruments In While Operating (corrosive Sublimate And Other Antisep Tics Have Almost Entirely Replaced It For The Latter Purpose). For The Dressing Of Wounds, Carbolic Acid Has Been Used ...
Symptoms And
Symptoms And Diagnosis.—the Diag Nosis Of This Condition Is Not Always Easy (osler). Enlargement Of The Superficial Glands, Enlarged Tonsils, More Or Less Swelling Of The Thyroid, Dullness Over The Sternum, And Enlargement Of The Mesen Teric Glands Are The Most Prominent Feat Ures. The Signs Of Hypoplasia Of The ...
Symptoms And Diagnosis
Symptoms And Diagnosis. — The Main Symptoms Of Malignant Growths Are Rapid Loss Of Strength, Debility, Ema Ciation, Digestive Disorders, And Abdom Inal Pain, With Skin-changes In Some Cases. These Are Fairly Distinct In Some Cases; In Others No Symptoms Point To A Suprarenal Origin. A Differential Diag Nosis Must ...
Symptoms And Diagnosis
Symptoms And Diagnosis. — The Symptoms And Results Of The Wound Vary According To The Age Of The Patient, Seat, And Extent Of The Injury, Septic Conditions Of The Weapon And Wound, Etc. In Some Cases The Symptoms Are Very Slight And Much Delayed, But More Often Are Severe And ...
Symptoms Of Acute
Symptoms Of Acute Leuileemia.— Acute Leulimmia Presents The Picture Of An Acute Infection. There Is An Irregular Fever, Often High, And Chills Are Frequent. Some Of The Lymphatic Glands Become Acutely Enlarged, But This Often Subsides; The Spleen Is Only Moderately Enlarged. Llmmorrhages Are Marked Symptoms, From The Gums, Nostrils, ...