Memphis Medical Monthly Volume 30, No. 8 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: ... already excessive. Herringham has given reasons for believing that the danger in this direction is not so great as we think, and the circumstances are desperate. Accordingly, while endeavoring to lighten the task of the kidneys by means of the skin, while using hot packs, hot air baths, and even injections of pilocarpin nitrate in order to secure the removal of some water and salts by perspiration, we must at the same time, by digitalis and theobromin sodium salicylate, try to raise the blood pressure and recover the level of excretion. If the uremia manifests itself, as it sometimes does, the inhalation of oxygen is an additional aid. Should the fits continue, relief must be given by bleeding. The Tuberculous Gland; Its Significance and its Treatment. In the Lancet, July 2, 1910, R. W. Philip gives the summary of his views from many years' study. He says that suppuration is merely an incident, a relatively uncommon accident in the course of progressive involvement of the glands by tuberculous infection. Far more common is the infiltration in varying degree. The author follows out the course of tuberculous infection, speaks of its relation to childhood, and then passes on to treatment. This should be directed chiefly to the essential lesion rather than to the incidental occurrence. The ordinary surgical treatment is of local and only partial value. Superficial lesions are indeed removed, but the infection is deeply seated in the lymphatic system and only some general measure will meet the emergency. Here the outlook for vaccine therapy with tuberculosis is most encouraging. Dr. Philip details his experience with it, cautioning against too large a dose at first. His conclusions, drawn from prolonged observation and treatment of such cases, are thus given: (...