The Clinical Review
1904; Gale Group; Linguagem: English
Autores
W. M. Harsha, L. L. Skelton, S. R. Slaymaker, L. Harrison Mettler, N. Filatov, G. B. Hassin, Joseph B. De Lee, Dr. Hermann Nothnagel,
ResumoFrontmatter: The Clinical Review. Essay: According to Investigations by Strossburger, and by Lohrisch Chronic Constipation Is Due to Diminished Activity of the Muscular Wall of the Intestine and the Lack of Motility Is Caused by an Absence of the Acids and Gases of Decomposition Which Are the Result of Bacterial Action and Which Stimulate the Muscular Activity of the Bowel, Treatment of Mild Mental Cases in Private Institutions.—By S. R. Slaymaker, M. D., Instructor of Medicine, Rush Medical College; Attending Physician, Cook County Hospital, Etc., Chicago, "I Hope You Have No Misunderstanding with Respect to the Position of Medicine Itself, Chronicle and Comment, Some General Comment Has Recently Been Offered against the Government, against the Public at Large, and against the Medical Profession in a Measure, in View of the Death of Mrs. Morton, Relict of the Discoverer of Anæsthesia, under Circumstances of Poverty, The Occurrence of Pregnancy after the Removal of Both Ovaries and Tubes in a Case Mentioned by an English Operator Brings up Some Interesting and Really Important Questions Both of a Physiological and Sociological Character, A Congress Is Being Organized in France for the Consideration of Ways and Means to Abate Medical Quackery, Obstetrics for Nurses.—By Joseph B. De Lee, M. D., Professor of Obstetrics in the Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago; Lecturer in the Nurses' Training Schools of Mercy, Wesley, Provident, Cook County, and Chicago Lying-In Hospitals. 12 Mo. of 460 Pages, Fully Illustrated. Philadelphia, New York, London: W. B. Saunders & Co., 1904, Multiple Neuritis.—By L. Harrison Mettler, A. M., M. D., Associate Professor of Neurology, College of Medicine of the University of Illinois; Professor of Mental and Nervous Diseases in the Chicago Clinical School; Consulting Neurologist to the Norwegian Deaconess' Home and Hospital, Chicago, A Very Interesting Tabulation of the Nature of Bodily Accidents Occurring to the Inhabitants of a Large City in the Course of a Year Is Given by One of the Committees of the Civic Federation of Chicago, Covering the Year 1903, A French Court Recently Fined a Physician Forty Dollars and Costs and Acquitted a Druggist in a Case Where Both Were Sued for Damages in a Case of Homicide from Imprudence, While Controversy Is the Stimulant of Thought, and, Per Contra, Blind Acceptance of Dogmatic Statement Is the Destroyer of Reason, yet the Character of Mind Which Pertinaciously Rebukes All Scientific Proof of a Given Advancement and Rants along Opposition Lines Must Have a Particular Classification of Its Own, Dr. Finlayson, in an Address before the Actuarial Society of Glasgow, Contends That the Discovery of the Tubercle Bacillus Has Not Changed the Principles Which Have Governed Medical Officers of Life Insurance Companies in Estimating Life Expectancy, It Appears That a Tuberculosis Dispensary Has Been in Existence in Edinburgh for the Last Seventeen Years, Engaged in a Fight against the Spread of Tuberculosis Amongst the Poor, and Certainly Accomplishing an Immeasurable Amount of Good along the Following Lines, Which Constitute the Scope of the Institution, Garrod States (Practitioner) That Urine Which Is Dark-Colored or Black Either upon Voiding or Shortly Thereafter May Occur in Connection with Chronic Cases of Jaundice, Hæmaturia, Hæmoglobinuria, Hæmatoporphyrinuria, Melanotic Sarcoma, Alkaptonuria, Ochronosis, in Cases Showing Much Indican (Indoxyl Sulphate), in Some Cases of Phthisis after the Urine Has Stood for Some Time, in Certain Cases of Unknown Nature, and after Taking Certain Drugs or from Certain Articles of Diet, Lateral Curvature of the Spine Is of Far More Frequent Occurrence in Girls than in Boys in the Proportion of Four to One; and No Reasonable Explanation for This Very Wide Discrepancy Has Been Advanced, at Least No Reason Has Been Offered Which Would at Once Satisfy a Scientific Mind, The Slight Difference between the Uncivilized Human Being and the More Intelligent Animal Is Shown in the Habits of the Fiji Parturient Woman, Applied Medicine Acne, The Practical Medicine Series of Year Books, Diseases of the Intestines and Peritoneum.—By Dr. Hermann Nothnagel, of Vienna. The Entire Volume Edited, with Additions, by Humphrey D. Rolleston, M. D., F. R. C. P., Physician to St. George's Hospital, London, Eugland. Octavo Volume of 1032 Pages, Fully Illustrated. Philadelphia, New York, London: W. B. Saunders & Co., The Government Employes at Washington Seem to Think It a Pretty Hard Task to Work about Six Hours a Day (Which Is Nearly the Actual Time Now Devoted to, and Called, "A Day's Work" with the Official Force; with a Month's Leave of Absence Each Year (with Full Pay), Multiple Essay Items, Dr. Roswell Park Has Lately Been Quoted as Strongly in Favor of American Methods of Teaching Medicine as Compared Particularly with Those of Germany and France, The Recent International Sanitary Conference Adopted the Following Touching Two Very Important Diseases, Both Spread in the Same Manner, One of Which Is Always with Us, the Other We Stand in Everlasting Dread Of, Treatment of the Insane in Private Practice.—By L. L. Skelton, M. D., Professor of Nervous and Mental Diseases, Illinois Medical College; Professor of Internal Medicine, Chicago Clinical School; Professor of Physiology, Chicago College of Dental Surgery, Notes on New Books, Baer Points out That during the Last Fourteen Years Fifty-Six Per Cent. of All Deaths from Natural Causes in the Prisons of Germany Was Caused by Pulmonary Tuberculosis, A Great Many Doctors Find It Hard to Follow out That Which They Long for under the Designation of a Reasonable Conservatism, Which Is so Aptly Expressed in the Lines, Original Articles Surgical Clinic.—By W. M. Harsha, M. D., Professor of Operative and Clinical Surgery, Medical Department …. Review: Book Reviews Semeiology and Diagnosis of Diseases of Children.—Together with a Therapeutic Index. By N. Filatov, Late ….
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