Transactions of the ...annual Meeting of the Missouri State Medical Association, Volumen36

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Página 91 - As they are never present in great numbers, very little time is required, and all that is necessary may be done in one short sitting. So far as other parts of the body are concerned, any one of a number of methods may be successfully employed. A method which is very popular, but which is not only filthy but very frequently liable to bring on untoward effects, is the use of mercurial ointment. Other ointments are equally disagreeable to use and should be discarded in view of the fact that more cleanly...
Página 347 - The objects of such colony shall be to secure the humane, curative, scientific and economical treatment and care of epileptics, exclusive of insane epileptics...
Página 37 - Young men of America, listen to the voice of one who has grown old in his profession, and who will probably never address you again, as he utters a parting word of advice. The great question of the day is not this operation or that — not ovariotomy, or lithotomy, or a hip-joint...
Página 37 - The great question of the day is, not this operation or that, not ovariotomy or lithotomy, or a hip-joint amputation, which have reflected so much glory upon Kentucky medicine, but preventive medicine, The Hygiene of our Persons, our dwellings, our streets — in a word, our surroundings, whatever and wherever they may be, whether in city, town, hamlet or country...
Página 184 - I do not think in the whole range of surgery there is any procedure worthy of the name of operation which can show a greater amount of success or smaller death-rate than the ligature of internal haemorrhoids.
Página 151 - I hold that to make such an operation upon a bladder when there are already putrefactive changes going on besides chronic suppurative cystitis is not good surgery. Rest is what the bladder needs, and rest is what the suffering patient is constantly praying for. The health is already much impaired in these old men, and to be subjected to a severe surgical operation under these circumstances, and that, too, to a particularly painful operative procedure, the outcome of which must necessarily involve...
Página 38 - ... wherever they may be, whether in city, town, hamlet, or country ; and the establishment of efficient town and State boards of health, through whose agency we shall be more able to prevent the origin and fatal effects of what are known as the zymotic or preventable diseases, which carry so much woe and sorrow into our families, and often sweep like hurricanes over the earth, destroying millions of human lives in an incredibly short time.
Página 135 - In fact, many of the cases are not much improved, if at all ; even those who are nearing the menopause, and who bear the loss of the ovaries better than younger subjects, occasionally suffer much from those nervous disturbances which follow an abrupt menopause, and have to endure pelvic pain in the region of the stumps. The clinical history of cases in which the ovaries have been removed...
Página 48 - Three for one year, three for two years, and three for three years, and members shall be eligible for reappointment.
Página 50 - ... of this state in consultation, or any physician or surgeon residing on the border of a neighboring state, and duly authorized under the laws thereof to practice...

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