The Medical Visitor (Volume 12) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ity of the medical profession, especially of those engaged in teaching medicine and surgery, but, in our opinion, it is a gross error.?ZV. Albany Med. Her. A Frog hung head downward in a child's mouth till it dies is still used as a remedy for thrush in Shropshire, England. One man boasted that his little son "wore out" four frogs before he himself died of convulsions.?The Daily Lancet. Ulcek Of The Leg.?Dr. Chauffard treats chronic ulcers of the legs by covering them thickly with powdered sugar, retaining it in position by means of a proper dressing. The application is first made every day, then every other day, and later at longer periods) until the ulcer is healed.?Mod. Med. How To See Trichina In Raw Pokk.?We have often, in these pages suggested that the microscope, as its name implies, is for the observation of little things. A few evenings since, an amateur brought a piece of trichinous pork which he had placed on a glass slip and covered. He had placed a comparatively small piece on the slide. The trichinse were visible but were dim and hazy. Upon lifting the cover, and picking out a piece of a single muscular fibre, removing the rest of the meat; coving the particle of single fibre, and pressing it out thin with the finger on the cover, the trichinae in their cysts were plainly, clearly, and beautifully visible. Examined with a quarter-inch objective they were still plain, and all the details of the parasite could be plainly and satisfactorily observed.?The Microscope. A New Operation For Varicocelb.?P.rault (Lyon Med- ica, October, 1895) describes a new operation for severe cases of varicocele which he had frequently practiced upon the cadaver and applied with success to two living subjects. The method consists in removing a large elliptical portion of the ski...