Wood's Medical and Surgical Monographs: Consisting of Original Treatises and Reproductions, in English, of Books and Monographs Selected from the Latest Literature of Foreign Countries, with All Illustrations, Etc. V. 1-12; [Jan. 1889-Dec. 1891].

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Side 304 - Also. The Preventive Treatment of Calculous Disease, and the Use of Solvent Remedies.
Side 68 - Beginning with slight symptoms after several days' incubation, the process gradually increases, at first in intensity, then in extent, and reaches its acme in both respects at the end of the second or beginning of the third week. It...
Side 335 - My medicines are a Powder, a Decoction, and Pills. The powder consists of Egg-shells and Snails, both calcined. The decoction is made by boiling some Herbs (together with a Ball, which consists of Soap, Swines'-Cresses, burnt to a Blackness, and Honey) in water.
Side 311 - I am not here to say whether that is so or not, but it seems to have been proved that there are substantial reasons for doubting if our ancient faith in that dogma be tenable. In speaking, then, of the " defective action of the liver...
Side 349 - Third American Edition. Revised and edited by JOHN B. HAMILTON, MD, LL.D., Professor of the Principles of Surgery and Clinical...
Side 312 - On the other hand, considerable and multiform symptoms of disturbed digestion may be frequently present. I cannot positively state whether those phenomena are really due to inactivity of the organ in question ; practically, for us to-day, this does not signify much, but the current terms are still convenient formularies until others can be substituted for describing the condition in question. " Now, at the bottom of this tendency to uric-acid production there often lies what is thus understood as...
Side 311 - I believe they can be more effectually dealt with by a different mode of treatment. Let me premise, in broad and simple terms — as our time here, and, I may perhaps add, the extent of our knowledge, will not permit me to be more minute or exact in detail, — that the origin of what we call gouty symptoms, as well as of a superabundant uric-acid deposit in the urine, is due to defective assimilation on the part of organs associated with or forming the primaj vise.
Side 304 - Surgeon Extraordinary to His Majesty, the King of the Belgians ; Consulting Surgeon and Emeritus Professor of Clinical Surgery to University College Hospital ; Fellow of University College ; Late Professor of Surgery and Pathology to the Royal College of Surgeons ; Honorary Member of the Societe de Chirurgie of Paris, etc.
Side 312 - ... even the ordinary amount of fluid associated with it at a temperature of 100° will not suffice to dissolve the whole, and solid uric acid is deposited in some part of the urinary passages. This deposit may take place in the kidneys themselves, giving rise, if not thrown off, to the formation of calculus, at first renal, but sooner or later mostly becoming vesical.
Side 316 - ... which exists in a dose of the natural water, you would still not have such efficient or such certain results as from the small quantity (in the natural water) named above. So that there is something, which I do not pretend to explain, and certainly shall not speculate about here, which distinguishes the action of mineral waters from the action of salts which are produced pharmaceutically.

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