Pulmonary tuberculosis and its complications, with special reference to diagnosis and treatment : for general practitioners and students / by Sherman G. Bonney ... With 189 original illustrations, including 20 in colors and 60 X-ray photographs.

  • Bonney, Sherman G. (Sherman Grant), 1864-1942.
Date:
1908
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Credit: Pulmonary tuberculosis and its complications, with special reference to diagnosis and treatment : for general practitioners and students / by Sherman G. Bonney ... With 189 original illustrations, including 20 in colors and 60 X-ray photographs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LlNlVERsri y of LtEOf- CONTENTS 15 PAGE Degree of Its Heat-abstracting Capabilities—Influence of Tempera- ture, Humidity, Wind Movement—Variability of Heat-dissipation— Uiniinished Atmospheric Pressure—Influence of Altitude upon Red Blood-corpuscles, Blood-pressure, Respiration, Nervous System— Necessity for Individualization—Clinical Testimony Regarding the Value of Climate—Inconsistency of Opponents—Cases Appropriate for Climatic Change—Four Distinct Classes—Cases Inappropriate for Climatic Change in General—Considerations Relative to Climatic Selection—Importance of a Discriminating Choice of Climate According to the Physiologic Adaptation of the Individual—Contra- indications for Residence in High Altitudes—Cases Suited to Low Temperature with Varying Degrees of Moisture—Popular Localities. CHAPTER XCVI Treatment of Special Symptoms 701-711 Cough—Extraordinary Differences of Character—Divergence of Therapeutic Indications—Local Causative Factors—General Con- stitutional Disturbances—Detailed Hygienic Measures—Subjective Control on the Part of the Individual—Digestive Disorders: Dietetic and Medicinal Management—Organic Disturbances: Functional Neuroses—Night-sweats: Hygienic Measures—Insomnia: Attention to Predisposing Causes—Cardiac Weakness. CHAPTER XCVII Treatment of Pulmonary Hemorrhage 711-723 General Considerations—Modifications of Treatment According to Intelligent Interpretation of the Significance of Clinical Manifesta- tions—Therapeutic Management—The Initial Directing Influence of the Physician—^Attention to Vitally Important Details of Manage- ment and Environment—Rational Employment of Selected Drugs— Management of Aspiration Pneumonia—Application of Special Methods. CHAPTER XCVIII General Drug Therapy 723-726 Routine Administration of Drugs Productive of Very Injurious Effects—Prevailing Tendency to Decry tlie Value of all Medication- Protest Against tms Popular Fad—The Intelligent Exhibition of a Few Remedies Constitutes a Valuable Adjuvant to More Important Measures of Treatment. SECTION III Specific Treatment 726 CHAPTER XCIX Theorie.s of Immunity 726-738 Historic Review—The Employment of Tuberculin—Inoculations With Living Attenuated Tubercle Bacilli—Maragliano's Method— Mctchnikoff's Doctrine of Phagocytosis—Opsonins—Bacterial Vaccines—Wright's Method. CHAPTER C Personal Observations upon the Use of Bacterial Vaccines 739-762 General Observations—Reports of Cases—Conclusions. Index 763-778