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Pagina 86 - SOUND. not unfrequently these are followed by convulsive fits, as they are commonly called, which depend on the brain becoming irritated : and sometimes under this condition the child is either cut off suddenly, or the foundation of serious mischief to the brain is laid. The remedy, or rather the safeguard, against these frightful consequences is trifling, safe, and almost certain, and consists merely in lancing the gum covering the tooth which is making its way through. When teething is about it...
Pagina 307 - April, he was placed in the prone position, on a platform made to be moveable on a hinge in the centre, so that on one end of it being elevated, the other was equally depressed. The shoulders and body having been fixed by means of a broad strap, the head was lowered until the platform was brought to an angle of about 80 degrees with the horizon. At first no cough ensued ; but on the back, opposite the right bronchus, having been struck with the hand, Mr. B. began to cough violently. The half-sovereign,...
Pagina 175 - Woman had suffered many Things of many Physicians, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse...
Pagina 69 - By degrees, this hardens and blackens, and at length, between the eighteenth and twenty-first day, drops off, leaving behind it a cicatrix of a form and size proportioned to the prior inflammation. A perfect vaccine scar should be of small size, circular, and marked with radiations and indentations.
Pagina 135 - ... vascularity. The sublingual glands wear an evident character of inflammation; but it never equals the increased discharge that accompanies epilepsy, or nausea. The frothy spume at the corners of the mouth, is not for a moment to be compared with that which is evident enough in both of these affections. It is a symptom of short duration, and seldom lasts longer than twelve hours. The stories that are told of the mad dog covered with froth, are altogether fabulous. The dog recovering from, or attacked...
Pagina 243 - A bread-and-water poultice should be put on for a few days, when the wound should be bound up lightly with some mild ointment, when a cure will be speedily completed. Constant poulticing both before and after the opening of the whitlow, is the only practice needed; but as the matter lies deep, when it...
Pagina 31 - Engravings embrace the most remarkable of our buildings from the earliest times— DRUIDICAL REMAINS, CATHEDRALS, ABBEYS, CHURCHES, COLLEGES, CASTLES, Civic HALLS, MANSIONS, SEPULCHRAL MONUMENTS of our Princes and Nobles, Portraits of British Worthies, and representations of localities associated with their names ; ancient Pictures and Illuminations of Historical Events, the Great Seals and Arms of the Monarchy, Coins and Medals, Autographs ; with the fullest pictorial indications of the INDUSTRY,...
Pagina 17 - As the real agent of relief is heat, the fomentation should always be as hot as it can comfortably be borne, and, to insure effect, should be repeated every half-hour. Warm fluids are applied in order to render the swelling which accompanies inflammation less painful, by the greater readiness with which the skin yields, than when it is harsh and dry. They are of various kinds; but the most simple, and oftentimes the most useful, that can be employed, is 'Warm Water.
Pagina 140 - In the dog, I have never seen a case in -which plain and palpable rabies occurred in less than fourteen days after the bite. The average time I should calculate at five or six weeks. In three months, I should consider the animal as tolerably safe. I am, however, relating my own experience, and have known but two instances in which the period much exceeded three months. In one of these, five months elapsed, and the other did not become affected until after the expiration of the seventh month.
Pagina 137 - ... sounds. Mr Youatt attempts a description of the sounds, although he confesses that there are no other sounds resembling them. " The animal is generally standing, or occasionally sitting, when the singular sound is heard. The muzzle is always elevated. The commencement is that of a perfect bark, ending abruptly, and very singularly, in a howl, "a fifth, sixth, or eighth higher.