Memphis Medical Monthly Volume 30, No. 4 baixar o livro de graça

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...until now the daily allowance of a typhoid fever patient at the Bellevue Hospital is about as follows: Milk, undiluted, l1/ to 2 quarts; cream, one to two pints; milk sugar, from 1 to 1% pounds, and from three to six fresh eggs. And in a series of forty-six cases of fever treated by Drs. Coleman and Shaffer, they report only one death, and that was from acute dilatation of the heart in a case of ambulatory typhoid that was in a desperate condition when he was admitted to the hospital. The object sought by Drs. Coleman and Shaffer in the above experiment was to determine whether or not it was possible to furnish a typhoid fever patient a sufficient amount of food to meet all bodily requirements during the fever, and, if so, then the amount necessary to protect the patient from loss of both weight and strength. In this experiment these gentlemen kept an accurate account of the exact amount of each particular kind of food allowed each patient each day. And their findings coincided exactly with that of Ewing and Wolf with reference to the diets rich in proteids, all of whom agree that the proteid allowance of any case should be as light as is consistent with the nitrogen requirements of the system. In the examination and study of the urine passed by typhoid fever patients Ewing and Wolf have recently found, as they think, positive evidence that the "fcbris carnis," so much complained of in such cases, was due entirely to the inability of the patients to digest and properly metabolize the proteids contained in the diet upon which the patients had been fed. While from the standpoint of a general practitioner, I would congratulate Drs. Coleman and Shaffer upon their success in the experiment referred to, and would also commend their work as a step in the...