Clinical medicine : observations recorded at the bedside with commentaries / by W.T. Gairdner.

  • Gairdner, W. T. (William Tennant), Sir, 1824-1907.
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1862
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    Peacock, Dr., on early eruption and early crisis in fever, 168, note. Peddie, Dr., on delirium tremens, 260, 270, note; 272, note. Petit, his views on the connection of the pupil with the sympathetic nerve, 526. Phthisis pulmonalis, retrospect of, 628. (See also Index of Cases.) Pleuritic effusion, 291-380; cases (see Table of Contents, p. x.) ; question of thoracentesis, 322, 358-360, 369-380. (See also In- dex of Cases.) Pneumonia. (See Index of Cases.) Pneumonia as a cause of death in Registrar-General’s returns, 24. Pneumonia, five years’ hospital ex- perience of, 41-55; confirms for- mer statements, 41 ; deaths from pneumonia more rare than former- ly, 42 ; compared with epidemic fevers and chronic diseases, 43 ; details of experience 47-52 ; cau- tions in their use, 45 ; summary of treatment adopted, 52-55 ; in certain cases may be left to na- ture, 55. Pneumonia, forms of disease re- sembling it, detected by stetho- scope, 25; danger of active treat- ment in such cases, 38. Pneumonia, treatment of, not founded on any special principle or system of doctrine, 20, 30 ; when to do and when to refrain, 31- Pneumonia, treatment of, 32-40 ; “the blood-letting controversy,” 32 ; Dr. Alison’s views, 33; author’s conclusibns, 36-40. Pneumothorax, 381-409; ending in recovery, case of, 382 - 387; symptoms of pneumothorax, their variations, 387 ; latency of symp- toms, 388-391; in pregnancy, 391-394 i prognosis of, 395-397 ; relation of, to pleurisy, 397-401 ; theory of cure of, 391 ; without pleurisy, 402 ; clinical evidence of cured pneumothorax, 405 - 409. (See also Index of Cases.) Psorenterie in cholera, 216. Pulsating empyema, 325. Rales, diagnosis of intrapulmonary and extrapulmonary, 351, 352. Ramsay, Mr., of Broughtyferry, his case of aneurism opening exter- nally, with spontaneous arrest of hemorrhage, 517. Retrospect of cases treated during the session 1855-6, 1 ; propor- tion of deaths to cases, 2 ; details of mortality, 3; deaths from acute disease, 13 ; infrequency of death from simple acute inflam- mation, 18 ; detailed treatment in pleuro-pneumonia, 27. Retrospect of 200 cases under treat- ment in 1859-60, 627-688. (See Table of Contents, p. xii.; see also Index of Cases, under separate subjects.) Reid, Dr. John, on dyspnoea in connection with injury of recur- rent and pneumogastric nerves, 459, 460 ; on enteric fever, 169; on section of the sympathetic nerve, 526, 537, note. Rhythm of Cardiac murmurs, 568- 579 ; of heart’s action, 570-573. Ricord on syphilis, 235, 237. Robertson, Dr. William, on enteric fever in Edinburgh, 169 ; re- searches on the blood in cholera, 206 ; on treatment of cholera, 223. Roe, Dr. Hamilton, on admission of air during thoracentesis, 322. Ross, Mr. George, on the treat- ment of cholera, 223. Sanitary reform tends to reduce the frequency and severity of acute inflammations, and of some chronic organic diseases, 43. Scarlatina, contrasted with enteric fever, 187-189 ; prognosis, 190 ; of the fever, 191 ; of delirium, 192; emetics and purgatives, 194 ; cold affusion, 195 ; deple- tion, 195 ; stimulants, 195, 204 ; inhalation of steam, 196 ; nourish-