The Louisville Monthly Journal of Medicine and Surgery, Volume 15

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Louisville Monthly Journal of Medicine and Surgery Company, 1909

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Page 64 - Progressive Medicine: A Quarterly Digest of Advances, Discoveries and Improvements in the Medical and Surgical Sciences. Edited by Hobart Amory Hare, MD, Professor of Therapeutics and Materia Medica in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia; Physician to the Jefferson Medical College Hospital, etc. Volume I. March, 1899. Surgery of the Head, Neck and Chest; Diseases of Children; Pathology; Infectious Diseases, including Croupous Pneumonia; Laryngology and Rhinology; Otology.
Page 382 - Letter-writing (the subject-matter on a topic relative to the practice of medicine) 5 2. Anatomy and physiology (general questions on anatomy and physiology and histologic or minute anatomy) 15.
Page 223 - Diseases of the Skin and the Eruptive Fevers. By JAY FRANK SCHAMBERG, MD, Professor of Dermatology and Infectious Eruptive Diseases in the Philadelphia Polyclinic and College for Graduates in Medicine.
Page 320 - Obstetrics for Nurses. By JOSEPH B. DEL.EE, MD, Professor of Obstetrics in the Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago ; Lecturer in the Nurses' Training Schools of Mercy, Wesley, Provident, Cook County, and Chicago Lying-in Hospitals.
Page 108 - There will be considerable soreness 'for a few days, but the patient is always greatly benefited by the first treatment, if not cured by it, and is always cured by five or six treatments. Where the edges of a fissure are greatly hypertrophied, the negative pole should be applied to cause liquefaction of the dense tissues.
Page 320 - Genito-Urinary Diseases Diseases of the Genito-Urinary Organs and the Kidney. By ROBERT H. GREENE, MD, Professor of Genito-Urinary Surgery at Fordham University; and HARLOW BROOKS, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, University and Bellevue Hospital Medical School. Octavo of 639 pages, illustrated.
Page 107 - Lewis' law could not be verified. In the treatment, the author first referred to the importance of selecting a proper diet for these cases, and then referred to the use of formalin and boracic acid solution, and formalin and copper phenol-sulphonate solution in high irrigations through a recurrent tube which he has devised specially for that purpose. He also referred to treatments through the sigmoidoscope with silver nitrate followed by the installation of boracic acid and aristol, or iodoform and...
Page 108 - While the negative pole produces hydrogen, is alkaline, dilates blood vessels, thus increases bleeding, causes hypersensitiveness, liquefies and disintegrates tissues; being an alkaline caustic the resulting cicatrices are soft and yielding; it is also a vaso-dilator. Internal hemorrhoids are successfully treated with the electric needle as follows : Cocainize the hemorrhoid, then introduce a platinum or common cambric needle into it, attached to the positive pole, while the negative pole is connected...
Page 107 - ... prefer the juicy subepithelial structures, and the pathology is chiefly subepithelial. The colon bacilli and streptococci are accorded importance in part of the inflammatory process, especially in the rectum. Thus is explained the great difference in the character of the ulcers found there and those seen in the higher portions of the colon. Autopsy in one case showed marked strictures and thickening of rectal...
Page 128 - The physician is not in any way benefited, while the patient is distinctly injured. 3. This so-called National Formulary Propaganda has nothing to do with ethics. Instead of elevating, it tends, as we have shown, to degrade both pharmacy and medicine. It is purely a money-making proposition. 4. The public is not in any way benefited by this propaganda, for the patient has to pay just as much (and often more), for the inferior substitute as for the superior original. 5. The deduction which logically...

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