Difficult Breathing
Categories: Obstetrics or MidwiferyThis usually comes late in pregnancy and is due to
the pressure of the womb upon the diaphragm; the patient should avoid
excitement and sleep with the shoulders well elevated. In the ninth month
the womb drops lower and the breathing is better.
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DEVELOPMENT AT DIFFERENT MONTHS
First month. There are indications of the eyes, mouth and anus. The extremities are rudimentary. The heart is 4/10 of an inch long. Second month. It is now about one inch long. The eyes, nose and ears can be distinguished. External genitals. There... DEVIATION OF THE SEPTUM (Partition)
Deviation is the bending or curving of the partition (septum) to one side or the other, leaving one nostril very large and roomy and closing the other nostril wholly or partly. Causes. Blows, falls, etc., high-arch palate. It is seldom seen under seven... DIABETES
The onset is gradual, glucose (sugar) is persistently in the urine. Great quantity of urine passed; six to forty pints in twenty-four hours. Thirst is great. Large quantities of water is taken. Loss of strength and weight, mouth is dry, tongue is red an... DIABETES INSIPIDUS
A chronic affection characterized by the passage of large quantities of normal urine of low specific gravity. Causes. It is most often found in young males and is probably of nervous origin. It may follow excitement or brain injury. Symptoms. The o... DIABETES MELLITUS
A disorder of nutrition in which sugar accumulates in the blood and is excreted in the urine, the daily amount of which is greatly increased. Causes. Hereditary influences play an important role and cases are on record of its occurrence in many membe... DIABETES MELLITUS
Phosphoric acid 3X dil. Two drops four times a day. Uranium nitrate 3X trit. (tablet form). One tablet three times a day. ... Diagnosis
In twin pregnancy the symptoms and disorders of pregnancy are apt to be exaggerated, and watery swelling above the pubic bone is almost always present in the latter months. The abdomen is larger and broader and there may be a depression dividing the abd... DIARRHEA
Causes. (a) Improper or excessive food, including green or over-ripe fruit. (b) Poison substances; such as decomposed milk or meat either fresh or canned: or caused by arsenic, mercury or colchicum. (d) Exposure to cold, wet or draughts. (c) S... Diathesis
Hereditary predisposition to disease, allergy, or other disorder. ... Diet
This should consist at first of liquid, unstimulating food, given in small quantities and frequently. If the baby does not nurse, the liquids should be restricted. Some women on the first day can take milk, milk toast, or if desired, dry or buttered toa... DIET IN DIARRHEA
From the Head Nurse of a Large Hospital. May Take-- Soups. Milk soup well boiled, clam juice, beef tea. Meats. Scraped fresh beef or mutton well broiled, sweetbread, beef juice from freshly broiled steak (all sparingly). Eggs. Lightly boiled o... Diet in Infectious Diseases
Foods that can be used: Milk, milk-water, milk and lime-water, Mellin's food, malted milk, imperial granum, albumin water, rice water, oatmeal water, barley water, egg (white part), and barley water, arrowroot water, whey, whey and cream mixture, cream ... Diet in Laryngitis
Hard and dry toasts should be avoided, for they give pain on being swallowed, same reason applies to highly seasoned foods. Milk, custards, eggs, scraped beef may be taken. Difficulty in swallowing may be overcome by allowing the patient to lie flat on ... Difficult Breathing
This usually comes late in pregnancy and is due to the pressure of the womb upon the diaphragm; the patient should avoid excitement and sleep with the shoulders well elevated. In the ninth month the womb drops lower and the breathing is better. ... Digitalis
Plant of the genus Digitalis, including foxgloves. Drug prepared from the seeds and dried leaves used as a cardiac stimulant. ... Dilatory
Delay or postpone. ... DIPHTHERIA
This disease begins gradually, as a rule, with chilly feelings, pain in the back and limbs, pulse is faster, with a general redness of the throat before the formation of the membrane; with such symptoms there are great weakness, paleness, and a bad smel... DIPHTHERIA
Diphtheria is an acute disease and always infectious. There is a peculiar membrane which forms on the tonsils, uvula, soft palate and throat and sometimes in the larynx and nose. It may form in other places such as in the vagina, bowels, on wounds or so... DIPHTHERIA
Antitoxin is the best remedy. Belladonna 3X dil. Ten to fifteen drops in one-half glass of water and give two teaspoonfuls every one to two hours when there is fever, marked inflammation of the tonsils, no spots as yet, red face and throbbing arterie... Diphtheria,
"One-fourth pound loaf sugar, one-fourth pound gum kino, one-fourth ounce alum; put in a covered porcelain dish on stove in a quart of soft water. Simmer down to one pint, gargle the throat every fifteen minutes, or for small children use a swab. Band... Discomfit
Make uneasy or perplexed; disconcert; embarrass; thwart the plans of; frustrate. ... DISEASE OF THE MIDDLE EAR
The ordinary cold in the head rarely runs its course without one of the eustachian tubes at least is involved to some extent. ... DISEASE OF THE RESPIRATORY ORGANS
Coryza, cold in the head. Aconite 2X dil. Prepare as usual. Use first twenty-four hours. Arsenicum 3X trit. (tablet form). One tablet every hour for burning watery discharge from the nose; nose stopped up, discharge makes nose sore. Mercurius 3X ... DISEASES OF THE EYE AND EAR
The first thing we notice in looking at the eye may be the lids and at each edge are the eyelashes. When this edge becomes inflamed it is called Blenharitis Marginalis or inflammation of the margin of the eyelids. It is called thus from the name of ... DISEASES OF THE FALLOPIAN TUBES
These are named after their discoverer, Fallopian, an Italian anatomist. These tubes begin at the part of the body of the womb that extends out like a horn. This is on the sides near the top of the body of the womb. They are two in number and extend out... DISEASES OF THE GUMS
Hepar sulph. 3X trit. (tablet form) is good when teeth are ulcerated and decayed. Take one to two tablets every three hours. Or use, Mercurius sol. 3X trit. (tablet form) if there is much saliva in the mouth and teeth feel too long. ...