Threatened Abortion
Threatened Abortion. — Absolute Nental And Physical Rest Is Imperatively The Patient Should Be Kept N Bed, With Her Hips Slightly Elevated, And Be Given Only Light And Cool Food. To Arrest The Uterine Contractions Of Opium, 12 Drops Every Two Lours, May Be Given By The Mouth; Or Of ...
Thrombosis
Thrombosis. — Against Thrombosis Speak: Youth Unless The Patient Be A Syphilitic, Coincident Or Early Rise Of Bodily Temperature, Early And Deep Coma, Vomiting, Great Inequality Of The Pupils, High Barometric Pressure At Time Of Onset, Beginning Of Attack- When The Per Son Is Under Effort Or Excitement, A Pulse ...
Tiioracic Duct
Tiioracic Duct. — This May Be The Seat Of Disease Through The Extension Of Inflammation In The Various Forms Of Me Diastinitis; Or It May Be Itself In A Mal Condition And Be The Recipient Of Direct Or Indirect Pressure Sufficient To Rupture Its Walls With Extravasation Of Contents. Again, ...
Tions
Tions). They Are Of Importance In This Connection From A Negative Point Of View: Because, Like Fractures Of The Skull, Their Relation To Injury Of The Tained Viscera Is By No Means Constant. The Significance Of Fracture Of The The Usual Osseous Lesion—is Commonly Overestimated. A Surprisingly Small Percentage Of ...
Torsion Of The
Torsion Of The Testicle.—the Cord Of An Undescended Testicle May Be Twisted As The Result Of Congenital Malformations. The Symptoms Depend Upon The Amount Of Torsion. There Is Usually Inflamma Tion And Possible Gangrene. This Con Dition Must Be Distinguished From Stran Gulated Hernia And Epididymitis. In Torsion The Cpididymis ...
Torsion Of The Pedicle
Torsion Of The Pedicle Is A Quite Frequent Complication. It Is Only When The Alteration Is Sufficient To Influence The Circulation That It Produces Disturb Ance. The Right-sided Tumor Turns To The Left And The Left-sided To The Right. The Cause Of The Torsion Is Unknown. Kfistner Ascribes It To ...
Total Absence Of The
Total Absence Of The Gastric Se Cretory Function (achylia Gas Trica; Aciiloriiydria; Nervous An Acidity; Atrophy Of The Gastric Tubules; Anadenia Ventriculi.—as Remarked Before, This Curious Affection, Although Classed Among The Neuroses And Functional Diseases Of The Stomach, Is Often Dependent Upon An Actual Atrophy Of The Gastric Tubules, Which ...
Toxic Foods
Toxic Foods. Ptomaines And Toxins. The Word Ptomaine Has Been Pretty Generally Abandoned As Inapplicable To The Toxic Elements Of Decomposition It Was In Tended To Represent. Although It Im Plies The Presence Of A Poisonous Prod Uct, It Is Now Known That Many Pto Maines — Cholin, Neuridin, Putrescin, ...
Tracheo Laryngeal Oper Ations
Tracheo-laryngeal Oper Ations. Thyrotomy.—thyrotomy Is Calculated To Expose Freely The Interior Of The Larynx For The Removal Of Foreign Bodies And Tumors. To Admit Air Into The Respira Tory Tract, However, In Diphtheria, Laryn Geal Cedema, Etc., It Is Not Satisfactory, As A Rule, Being Too Close To The Lesion ...
Transportable Reagents For Al
Transportable Reagents For Al Bumin.—hoffmann And Aazette Employ Strips Of Test-paper Previously Placed In A Solution Of The Double Iodide Of Potas Sium And Mercury Until Saturated, Then Removed And Dried. The Urine Which Is To Be Tested Should Be Clear And Rendered Acid By Means Of A Few Drops ...
Traumatic Cataract As
Traumatic Cataract.-as A Rule, This Form Of Lenticular Opacity Is The Re Sult Of A Rupture Or Disturbance Of The Capsule Of The Lens From An Injury Which Permits The Aqueous Or Vitreous Humor To Come Into Contact With The Lens-fibres. The Laceration In The Capsule May Be Caused Hy ...
Treatment
Treatment May Be Either Abortive Or Radical. The Former Is Rarely Successful, But Massage Of The Growth May Be Tried, Using An Ointment Of Yellow Oxide Of Mer Cury Or Iodide Of Cadmium. The Radical Plan Consists In The Re Moval Of The Growth By Operation, Either From The Skin ...
Treatment
Treatment. - This Must Be Begun Promptly, For Osseous Union Has Been Known To Occur By The Tenth Day. By Means Of A Director Passed Within The Nostrils The Bones Are Replaced. The Only Retentive Apparatus Of Any Value Is A Long Pin Passed Directly Through The Nose And Resting ...
Treatment And Prognosis
Treatment And Prognosis. — The Treatment For Glioma Of The Retina Is Re Moval Of The Eyeball At The Earliest Mo Ment, With So Much Of The Optic Nerve As Can Be Readily Taken With It. If The Growth Has Reached The Third Stage The Removal Of The Whole Contents ...
Treatment Of
Treatment Of Efl-ms.—whether The G.rowth Present Be A Simple Or Malignant One, The Sooner It Is Removed The Better. The Tumor, And The Tooth Or Teeth And The Portion Of The Alveolar Process In Volved, Should Be Cut Out, This Constitut Ing The Only Safe Mode Of Treatment. Mere Scrapina; ...
Treatment Of Abductor Paralysis
Treatment Of Abductor Paralysis. —the Likelihood Of Cure Corresponds With The Degree Of Amenability To Treat Ment Of The Original Cause. Whether It Be Syphilis, Tuberculosis, Aneurism, A Cerebral Neoplasm, Etc., Local Treatment Is Absolutely Subservient To That Of The Primary Affection, And The Treatment Of The Latter Is Therefore ...
Treatment Of Benign
Treatment Of Benign Tit3iors.—in Singers' Nodes Rest Is The First Requisite, Talking Especially Being As Much As Pos Sible Avoided. The Local Use Of Astrin Gent Solutions Is Generally Useless. The Local Application Of Chromic Acid With A Suitable Instrument And By An Expert, Or G,alvano-cauterizations, Or, Again, The Use,. ...
Treatment Of Certain Secia1
Treatment Of Certain S['ecia1 Symptoms. — Vomiting, However Obsti Nate Previously, Usually Ceases Within A Few Days After Instituting Bowel-feeding, When Nothing Is Allowed By The Mouth. If Hot Or Cold Applications Are Resultless, A Small Blister, One And A Half Inches Square, Is Applied To The Epigastrium. If Mouth-feeding ...
Treatment Of Complications In
Treatment Of Complications In The Upper Air-passages.—it Is Aston Ishing How Large A Percentage Of Even Incipient Cases Of Pulmonary Tuberculo Sis Present Lesions Of More Or Less Se Verity In The Upper Air-passages, And It Is A Question Whether Quite A Number Of Patients May Not Attribute Their Trouble, ...
Treatment Of The Acute
Treatment Of The Acute Attack. —abortive Treatment Of An Acute Attack Of Gout Has Repeatedly Been Tried, But It Is Not To Be Recommended, Being Attended With Great Risk. The Method Proposed Has Been Strapping The Affected Joint With Adhesive Plaster; The Application Of Snow Or Ice; The Hypodermic Injection ...
Treatment_2
Treatment. — The Method Recom Mended By Mr. Teale, Of Leeds, Is Usu Ally Resorted To, And Is Performed As Fol Lows: "the Everted Lip Is Divided Into Three Parts By Two Vertical Incisions Three-fourths Of An Inch Long And Carried Down To The Bone. These Incisions Are So Planned ...
Treatment_3
Treatment. - Besides Treatment Of The Central Cause, Strychnine Hypodermic Ally And General Tonics Are Almost Always Indicated. Arsenic Is Especially Valuable When The Affection Is A Sequel To Diph Theria. Electricity Serves The Double Pur Pose Of Assisting In The Diagnosis And Re Storing Motion. When The Paralysis Is ...
Treatment_4
Treatment. — Pilocarpine Has Been Used With Some Success In These Cases, But The Condition Usually Recurs. Black Man Employs The Drug In 1/20- To Grain Closes, In A Gelatin Lamella, Which Is Placed On The Tongue And Moistened With Water. Case Of Xerostomia, Or Dry Mouth, In Which Pilocarpine ...
Treatment_5
Treatment. — The Treatment Of The Disease Is Symptomatic. Quinine Has Been Used As A Prophylactic, But, Accord Ing To Osier, On Insufficient Grounds. Salines, Refrigerants, And Hydrotherapy (cold Pack Or Bath) May Be Employed Against The Fever. The Headache And Arthritic Pains May Sometimes Be Relieved By Local Applications ...
Treatment_6
Treatment. — Besides The Antiphlo Gistic Measures Adopted From The Start, Of Which Lead-water And Laudanum, Ice Bags, Or Compresses, Etc., Are Probably The Best, The Case Should Be Carefully Watched Lest Symptoms Of Pressure Upon Important Vessels Imperil The Patient's Life. Low Tracheotomy (without General Is Sometimes Suddenly Neces ...
Treatment_7
Treatment. — Kelly Has Seen Great Improvement Follow Gradual Dilatation By Graduated Hollow Bougies In Cases Of Stricture. Ureterotomy And Division Of The Valve Or, In Case Of Stricture, Closing The Opening After The Heinecke-mikulicz Method Of Suturing The Pylorus Has Been Successful In Relieving These Conditions In A Number ...
Tremors
Tremors. Paralysis Agitans (parkinson's Dis Ease). Definition. — An Affection Character Ized By A Special Form Of Tremor, Muscu Lar Rigidity, And Attended With Paralysis. Symptoms.—the Tremor Of Paralysis Agitans Possesses Characteristics That Are Not Observed In Other Forms. As A Rule, It Appears Insidiously, Though It May Ap Pear ...
Tropical Abscess
Tropical Abscess. — There May Be One Or More; In The Latter Case There Is Usually One Larger And Evidently Much Older Than The Others. They May Vary In Size From A Few Millimetres In Diam Eter Lip To An Orange Or Even To A Child's Head. The Larger Abscesses ...
Trusses
Trusses. — No Description Need Be Given Of The Great Variety Of Trusses. The Object To Be Accomplished By A Truss Should Be The Complete Retention Of The Hernia Without Causing Discomfort To The Patient; There Are Many Forms Of Trusses Which Fulfill This Object Satisfactorily. A Good Truss Should ...
Tubercular
Tubercular Elipyeiia. — A Large Proportion Of The Cases Of Empyema Are Essentially Cases Of Cold Abscess, Or, More Properly, Tuberculous Abscess. In These, Free Incision, Free Drainage, And Excision Of A Rib Are Required. Park Has Resorted To Scraping With The Sharp Spoon, And In Some He Has Cauterized ...
Tubercular Form
Tubercular Form. — It Is This Form That The Naso-pharyngeal Nomena Are Most Marked. The Patient Experiences Slight Difficulty In Breathing Through The Nose And The Symptoms Taining To The Air-tract Already Described Become Quite Marked. Then Comes The Period During Which The Cutaneous Lepro Mata Of Leloir Are Formed. ...
Tubercular Orcliitis
Tubercular Orcliitis. — Tubercular Orchitis Is Usually Secondary To A Like Affection Of The Epididymis; The Organ Isms, However, May Reach The Gland Through The Blood, And A Primary Focus Develop. The Disease Is Often Bilateral, And Is Most Commonly Met With Between The Ages Of Twenty-five And Thirty-five. Symptoms.—the ...
Tuberculin
Tuberculin. — Koch's New T-r Tu Berculin Has Been Used With Considerable Success By Several Dermatologists. Koch Advises That A Small Dose (1/0o Milligramme) Be First Used, And That This Be As Rapidly Increased As Possible, Avoiding Any Constitutional Reaction, And Not Re Peating The Injection Until The Tempera Ture ...