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Treatment of the Inevitable Abortion
If the cervix is hard and the canal is not dilated, especially if the bleeding is free, the vagina should be packed full at once, if possible, with iodoform gauze. Rolls five yards long and two inches wide can be bought perfectly adapted to this purpose... Treatment of Threatened Abortion
The patient should go to bed, lie down and remain there, and if possible be not only quiet physically, but also quiet mentally. The main remedy is opium, and if necessary to obtain a quick action it can be given hypodermically in the form of morphine. ... Trephine
Surgical instrument with circular edges, used to cut out disks of bone from the skull. ... TRICHINIASIS (Trichinosis)
The disease is caused by the trichina spiratis, a parasite introduced into the body by eating imperfectly cooked flesh of infected hogs. The "embryos" pass from the bowel and reach the voluntary muscles, where they finally become "encapsulated larvae,"... TRICUSPID (VALVE) INSUFFICIENCY
Cause. Usually due to dilatation of the right ventricle in mitral disease or with lung emphysema or other obstruction to the lungs' circulation. ... TRICUSPID STENOSIS (NARROWING)
Rare except in cases from the time of birth. Recovery from the valvular disease, depends upon the degree of compensation maintained and is best when this is acquired spontaneously. This is to be judged by the heart action. The prognosis is poor in c... Trillium (birthroot, Wake-robin)
Plants of genus Trillium, of North America, the Himalaya Mountains, and eastern Asia, having a cluster of three leaves and a variously colored, three-petaled flower. ... Trional
Contains three ethyls. Similar to sulphonal, used as a hypnotic. ... TUBERCULAR PERITONITIS
This may occur as a primary trouble or secondary to tuberculosis of the bowels, lungs, and Fallopian tube. It is most frequent in males between twenty and forty. Symptoms. These are variable. It may occur like acute peritonitis with sudden onset ... TUBERCULOSIS OF THE LUNGS
Irregular temperatures, respiration is more frequent than normal, pulse is rapid, cough, expectoration, night sweats, perhaps, and general failure of strength. ... TUBERCULOSIS. (CONSUMPTION)
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by the bacillus, tuberculosis, and characterized by the formation of nodules or diffuse masses of new tissue. Man, fowls and cows are chiefly affected. Indians, negroes and Irish are very susceptible. The ... TUMOR OF THE NOSE. (Nasal Polypus)
This tumor consists of a soft jelly- like whitish growth, usually found in the upper front part of the nostril. It may extend to the bottom (floor) of the nose, is quite soft and moveable, being easy to push aside with a probe. The air passing through ... TUMORS
A tumor is a new growth which produces a localized enlargement of a part, or an organ, has no tendency to a spontaneous cure, has no useful function, in most cases tends to grow during the whole of the individual's life. Clinically, tumors are divided i... TUMORS
Diagnosis. It is uncommon under thirty, quite common after. Epithelioma of the lower lip is limited almost entirely to men. If, then, a man of from forty to seventy develops a small tumor in the lower lip which ulcerates early, it is likely to be the ca... TUMORS OF THE BRAIN
Varieties in order of their frequency. Gumma, tuberculous tumors, glioma, sarcoma, cancer, etc. Causes. Predisposing. Men are about twice as often affected as women until fifty and then it is about equal. It is more frequent in early adult life. The ...