The Clinical Review
1905; Gale Group; Linguagem: English
Autores
A. Hamilton Levings, G. B. Hassin, L. Harrison Mettler, Dr. F. L. Adams, Dr. G. S. Matthews, William M. Welch, Jay F. Schamberg, Charles B. Penrose, James W. Holland, Emily A. M. Stoney,
ResumoFrontmatter: The Clinical Review. Essay: At the Thirty-Fourth Congress of German Surgeons Held in Berlin, April 26-29, 1905, It Must Be Recognized by All That Diagnosis Is Becoming Constantly More Technical and Complicated, The Great Development of the "Hospital Idea" Is Producing Somewhat of a Revolution in the Practice of Medicine, Aside from That Old Bone of Contention, A Washington Physician Announces That Appendicitis Is Due to the Bicycle Habit, In the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries the Fear of Contagious Diseases Was so Great That Sufferers Were in Danger of Abandonment by Friends and Foes Alike, Chronicle and Comment, "In Discussing This Subject of the So-Called 'Growing-Pains, ' I Do Not Wish to Imply That Medical Men Often Shirk the Question of Diagnosis and Let It Go at 'Growing Pains', There Is a Very Considerable Proportion of the Body of Medical Practitioners Who Almost Entire Lose Sight of the Necessity of Continued and Methodical Reading, Cerebral Hæmorrhage.—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, The Three Leading Views, and Quite the Only Ones Seriously Considered, Relative to the Causation of Cancer Are the Following, Among the Several Subjects Which the American Medical Association Could Take Action upon with Great Benefit to the Profession at Large Is the Matter of Fraternal Life Insurance Examinations, Practical Points in Nursing.—For Nurses in Private Practice. With an Appendix Containing Rules for Feeding the Sick; Receipts for Invalid Food and Beverages; Weights and Measures; Dose List: and a Full Glossary of Medical Terms and Nursing Treatment. By Emily A. M. Stoney, Late Superintendent of the Training School for Nurses, Carney Hospital, South Boston, Mass. Third Edition, Thoroughly Revised. Handsome 12 Mo. of 458 Pages, Fully Illustrated, Including 8 Colored and Half-Tone Plates. Philadelphia, New York, London: W. B. Sanders & Company, 1903, According to Ludwig Braun, Who Has Studied the Effect of the Simultaneous Administration of Digitalis and Caffeine as Well as Their Separate Administration upon Mammals, the Effect of the Combination of These Drugs Is of Special Benefit in Cardiac Disease with Heart Weakness, in Mitral Stenosis, Aortic Lesions, and Arterio-Sclerosis with Aortic Insufficiency, "The Medical Profession Has Gotten One of Its Blackest Eyes in the Estimation of the Laity in the Matter of Expert Testimony, The Following Prizes Are Offered by the Belgian Academy of Medicine, There Is Plenty of Room for Commentary upon the Fact That One-Sixth (Approximately) of the Professional Population of Chicago Changes Annually, Gov. Dineen of Illinois Recently Vetoed a Bill Appropriating $25,000 for a Sanitarium for the Consumptive Poor, At the First Roentgen Congress, Commemorating the Tenth Anniversary of the Discovery of the X-Ray, over Five Hundred Attended, Applied Medicine Conditions Favoring the Occurrence of Bright's Disease, Tannin Is One of the Oldest "Specifics" for Tuberculosis and Had Great Vogue in the Eighteenth Century, but Was Gradually Forgotten, "The Public Have a Rough-And-Ready Way of Sizing up the Doctor; and Public Judgment Is Often Correct, Ecclesiasticism in Its Relation to Temporal Government, and Especially in an Hygienic Direction, Is Not Only Unprogressive but Entirely out of Alignment with Even the Primary Truths of Science, In Prussia the Number of Persons Who Practice Medicine without Legal Qualification Is 4, 104, the Proportion Being 22.8 Quacks to Every Hundred Legitimate Physicians, J. C. Da Costa Has Summarized Rules for the Operative Treatment of Exophthalmic Goitre as Follows, Original Articles Is Tuberculosis a Causative Factor in the Production of Cancer?—By A. Hamilton Levings, M. D., Professor …, Ideally, Perhaps, It Is All Very Nice to Talk about Doctors Having a "Political Duty"; and That They Should Take an Active Part in All Political Matters, Local and General, and Even to Administer Such Political Offices as Come within Their Grasp, A Leading Hygienist Ventures the Following Rules to Insure a Long and Healthy Life, A Text-Book of Diseases of Women.—By Charles B. Penrose, M. D., PH. D., Formerly Professor of Gynecology in the University of Pennsylvania; Surgeon to the Gynecean Hospital, Philadelphia. Octavo Volume of 550 Pages. With 225 Fine Original Illustrations. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders & Co., Bier, of Bonn, Treats Acute Suppuration in the Extremities by a Method of "Congestive Hyperæmia, " Which He Maintains Is Infinitely Superior to the Time-Honored Antiphlogistic Measures of Common Usage Which Are to Be Classed among the Serious Mistakes of Medical Science, Multiple Essay Items, Neuronal, One of the New Hypnotics, Is a White Crystalline Powder Slightly Soluble in Water, but Readily Soluble in Alcohol, The Commission Which Is Examining the School Children of New York City, in a Partial Report Covering the Work Done to Date, Find Only 50 Per Cent. of the Pupils with Normal Vision, The Increasing Inability of Women, Especially Those Who Dwell in Large Cities, to Nurse Their Own Offspring Is Stirring up Considerable Comment and Evident Alarm, as Expressed in the Rather Discouraging View Taken, in Sociologistic Circles, Fifteen Years Have Elapsed since Koch Introduced a Glycerine Extract of Tubercle Bacilli in Pure Culture Which He Styled Tuberculin, In a Recent Number of the Dublin Journal of Medical Science, Dr. John Knott Relates the Strange Eventful History of "Captain" Thomas Dover, M. B., Whom He Describes as "Physician, Pirate, 'Quicksilver Doctor, ' Inventor of 'Dover's Powder, ' and Discoverer of 'Robinson Crusoe'", "The Criminal Abortionist and the Vendor of Abortive Drugs Who Openly and Shamelessly Expose Their Own Infamy in the Daily Prints of Our Great Cities Are Surely Descendants of the Original Plagues Which Were Turned Loose upon a Suffering World, A Text-Book of Medical Chemistry and Toxicology.—By James W. Holland, M. D., Professor of Medical Chemistry and Toxicology, and Dean, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Octavo Volume of 600 Pages, Fully Illustrated, Including 8 Plates in Color. W. B. Saunders & Co., 1905, In the January, 1905, Number of This Magazine Pp. 302-305, We Gave a Brief Review of the Subject on Hyper-Hypotension as Represented by Some Noted French Observers(Bosc, Vedel, Vaquez) at the Seventh French Congress of Internal Medicine. Review: "Fourth Disease" of Dukes, or "Scarlatinal Rubella" of Filatov.—A Review. By G. B. Hassin, M. D., Chicago, Book Reviews Acute Contagious Diseases.—By William M. Welch, M. D., Diagnostician to the Bureau of Health and Consulting ….
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