Consumption, the new cure: Asthma, the new remedy, in which is demonstrated the fallacy of the present method of treating diseases of the chest, etc1845 - 120 頁 |
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abscess action affection air cells anxiety arising asthma attack attended become bleeding blister blood blood-vessel body bronchiæ Bronchitis cartilages causes chest chronic climate cold colour confined consequence consumptive patients cough cure damp debility derangement diet difficulty of breathing digestion dilate disease disordered drachm electric fluid emetics exciting exercise exertion expectoration exposure fact fatal feeling frequently glottis habit heart heat hectic fever increased inflammation inhalation irritation lancet larynx liable liniments lungs malady means medicine ment months morning mucous membrane mucus mustard plaster nature nervous never night observed occur oppression organs ounce pain palpitation paroxysms persons perspiration pleura pleurisy produced prussic acid pulse purulent quantity quently quinine relief remarks remedies respiration respiratory muscles sensation severe skin sleep slight slightest stethoscope stomach substance suffered symptoms termination THAYER STREET thirst tion tongue trachea treatment tubercles ulcerated unfrequently vessels victims warm wind-pipe winter
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第 108 頁 - Let me have men about me that are fat ; Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights. Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look ; He thinks too much : such men are dangerous.
第 4 頁 - But not to understand a treasure's worth Till time has stolen away the slighted good, Is cause of half the poverty we feel, And makes the world the wilderness it is.
第 70 頁 - In some parts absorption had taken place, leaving small cavities in the muscular substance, varying from the size of a pin's head to that of a small pea ; these were all filled with pus.
第 76 頁 - If we put a small quantity of the substance to be examined between two pieces of plate-glass, and holding it near the eye, look through it at a distant candle, we shall observe the appearance, even in the day-time, of a bright circular corona of colours, of which the candle is the centre ; a red area, surrounded by a circle of green, and this again by another of red, the colours being so much the brighter as the globules are more numerous and more equable. If the substance be simply...
第 10 頁 - ... enables us to receive and expel the air in a greater or less quantity, and with more or less velocity, as may be required in singing and declamation. (See
第 vi 頁 - pathological anatomy has perhaps never afforded more conclusive evidence in proof of the curability of a disease than it has in that of tubercular phthisis.
第 8 頁 - The pulmonary veins return the blood that has undergone this change, by four trunks, into the left auricle of the heart. The bronchial veins terminate in the vena azygos. The nerves of the lungs are from the eighth pair and great intercostal. The absorbents are of two orders ; the superficial and deep-seated : the former are more readily detected than the latter..
第 vi 頁 - ... diet, I shall have occasion to show, in the course of my observations, that these agents are not only unnecessary, but actually mischievous ; particularly bleeding, which has proved more fatal than the pestilence or the sword. Nature is our best and surest guide ; and if we would...
第 8 頁 - ... This effect has been produced by a weight acting on the sails through a series of levers. A loose iron rod, passing through the centre of the axle of the windwheel, receives the action 'of the weight at one end, and communicates it to the sails at the other. WINDPIPE (trachea) ; a cartilaginous and membranous canal, through which the air passes into the lungs. Its upper part, called the larynx, is composed of five cartilages, the uppermost of which, called the epiglottis (qv), closes the passage...
第 87 頁 - The mean temperature of this part of the island is a little lower than the southern coast, but in March and April it rises somewhat above it. Bath and Bristol are about 3° warmer than London during the months of November and December; but this difference is reduced more than onehalf during January, February, and March.