Modern Developments in MedicineE. Gould, 1906 - 81 pages |
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Page 29 - On board ships — in whose confined spaces, filled with mouldy watery vapours, the cholera-miasm finds a favourable element for its multiplication, and grows into an enormously increased brood of those excessively minute, invisible, living creatures, so inimical to human life of which the contagious matter of the cholera most probably consists — on board these ships, I say, this concentrated, aggravated miasm kills several of the crew.
Page 66 - The opsonic index is the result obtained by dividing the number of bacteria ingested per leucocyte in the presence of any given serum by the number taken up per leucocyte in the presence of the serum of a normal individual, which latter is regarded as unity. Thus...
Page 15 - ... 2. That such metals. acting in doses which therapeutics considered heretofore as ineffectual and useless. by making a profound impression on some of the chemical processes of life whose deviations are connected with many morbid conditions. are probably destined to take an important place among the remedies of functional therapeutics.
Page 14 - A temporary raising of arterial tension. "7. A profound modification of the blood-globules, an injection being followed after several hours by manifest leucocytosis, slight in a healthy person, intense in infectious disorders habitually associated with leucocytosis.
Page 67 - Wright has shown that a definite course is pursued, and has described it as " the law of the ebb, flow, and reflow, and subsequent maintained high tide of immunity.
Page 31 - The extension of hospitals flying the flag of therapeutic freedom ; the improvement of our materia medica — already excellent and invaluable — on lines of modern precision ; the investigation of many problems of disease, and its treatment with the aid of twentieth-century science ; these are the constructive measures we are all bound to keep united in supporting, unless our own good name, and the fair fame of Hahnemann, are to suffer. At the present day the clinician, the pathologist, and the...
Page 12 - we meet with cases where the living body remains intact, in spite of its containing pathogenic microbes. Not very long ago quite the contrary was thought to be the case. When Loeffler first found diphtheria bacilli in the throat of a healthy child, doubts arose in his mind as to the etiologic role of his microbe. Latterly it has become generally acknowledged that a man may be the host of diphtheria bacilli, cholera vibriones, or other pathogenic bacteria, without necessarily developing the corresponding...
Page 15 - 7- A profound modification of the blood globules. An injection is followed after several hours .by manifest leucocytosis, slight in a healthy person, intense in infectious disorders, habitually associated with leucocytosis ; decrease in the number of leucocytes begins at the end of an hour or two. and lasts for a period of time varying from one to two days. The red corpuscles do not seem to undergo any noticeable modifications.
Page 15 - In the abovementioned solutions." he says. "the atoms of the metal. separated as widely as possible. are. as it were. liberated. autonomous in their activity. and susceptible in this way of developing greater energy. ... It is not difficult to conceive that these simple bodies. even in the infinitesimal doses in which they are found. are capable of influencing the chemical reactions of elementary nutrition.
Page 27 - It seems that the machinery of immunization can be brought into action by very small stimuli, and that it can be very easily overtaxed.