Archives of Dermatology, Volumes 3-4

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1877
 

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Page 326 - ... in the ventricles of the brain, and the central canal of the spinal cord ; and in the convoluted tubules of the kidney.
Page 179 - ... and maintains a high standard of the same. 4. Mercury in small doses acts as a tonic upon healthy animals, increasing their weight. In larger doses it is debilitating or fatal. 5. Mercury in small doses is tonic (for a time at least) for individuals in fair health, not syphilitic. In such individuals it increases the number of the red blood-corpuscles.
Page 380 - Professor of Skin Diseases in the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, etc. Part IV.
Page 280 - ... of a meter, is the unit of weight (gram). It is the gram alone which concerns physicians, for, in the metric system, everything is best prescribed and dispensed by weight alone; numbers upon a prescription paper being regarded by the pharmacist as representing grams, unless the contrary is expressly stated; the fractions are always decimal. The table is easily learned. It consists of six words, as prefixes, whether we deal with grams, liters, or meters. These are: deci for tenth, centi for hundredth,...
Page 13 - THE USE AND VALUE OF ARSENIC IN THE TREATMENT OF DISEASES OF THE SKIN.
Page 280 - Practically, moreover, for physicians, the whole system is reduced to grams and centigrams, just as, in money, to dollars and cents. On the right side of the prescription paper draw a perpendicular line from top to bottom. This decimal line takes the place of all the decimal points, and obviates the possibility of mistakes. This is the way dollars and cents are separated on business papers. Additional security is gained by writing the decimal fraction [centigrams] of half-size and raised above the...
Page 31 - June 7th, 1876, after the election of a Chairman and Secretary, pro tern., it was Resolved, To call upon such American Physicians as had evinced a special interest in Dermatology, to unite in forming an American Dermatological Association.
Page 280 - Grams" may be written over the integer-column of figures, and, if wished, the word " decimals" over the decimal column. Now, what is a Gram ? or rather, the values, metrically expressed of our present awkward weights ? Prussian. Practical. Precise. Grain I = 0.06 0.06 0.065 31= 1.25 1.25 1.29 31= 3-75 4-0 3-89 3 I = 30.0 32.0 31.1 The " practical " table alone concerns us. The " Prussian" [by order of the Prussian Ministry, Aug.
Page 146 - The most serviceable forms in which to use arsenic, named in the order of their value are ; solution of the chloride of arsenic, solution of the arseniate of potassa, that of the arseniate of soda, and the arseniate of ammonia, arsenious acid, iodide of arsenic, and the arseniates of iron and quinia ; of as yet untried efficacy, solution of the chloro-phosphide of arsenic and arseniate of antimony.
Page 30 - ... i. ; Olei Ricini, gtt. v. M. ). The tenderness has now very largely disappeared and she can stand on the leg with ease ; the tendency to increase seems also to be somewhat checked. She has been taking half a drachm of the fluid extract of ergot, three times a day, for some little time, but I have some doubt as to the amount of good effected thereby in this disease. Certain it is, however, that she has obtained great assistance from the use of the collodion, as suggested by my friend Dr Engelsted...

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