The American Practitioner: A Monthly Journal of Medicine and Surgery, Volume 22John Morton, 1880 |
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Page 129 - For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them •, and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way ; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else.
Page 371 - This is well worthy of trial in those cases of ever-living, never-dying martyrdom-like suffering. In headache due to determination of blood to the head and in fever, the following simple treatment is to be commended : — Put a handful of salt into a quart of water, add an ounce of spirits of hartshorn and half an ounce of spirits of camphor. Cork the bottle tightly, to prevent the escape of the spirit. Soak a piece of soft cloth with the mixture and apply it to the head ; wet the rag fresh as soon...
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Page 371 - ... doses, and then continued at longer intervals, for sick headache accompanied with acute gastric catarrh, whether due to error in diet, constipation, or no apparent cause.
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