Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery Volume 74 (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: to collapse, after which the syringe may be removed. After introducing a suppository containing 3 m. of ichthyol the patient may return to his usual occupation. These suppositories are also used twice daily ? one after stool and one at bedtime. Treatments should be given at intervals of from two to seven days and should be continued until all the hemorrhoidal masses have disappeared. The method, if properly used, is perfectly safe, and when it fails to cure, no harm has been done, and one of the other operative methods may be tried.? Medical Record. PROPHYLAXIS OF BLADDER INFECTION. Dr. C. Jewett called attention to a method which had served him well for preventing bladder infection when the bladder has to be catheterized. It is a rare thing that a patient is subjected to catheterization for many days without showing some evidence of bladder infection. Now and then a serious cystitis may result. particularly after labor, owing to lowered resistance and bruising of the bladder walls, and the more or less septic surroundings; the lochia always contain microbic organisms after the first few days. His practice is to give urotropin, 7 grains, t.i.d., so long as the catheter is in use. He has not seen a case of post-partum or postoperative bladder infection since adopting that plan.? Brooklyn Medical Journal. CONGENITAL LUXATION t)K THE HEAD OF THE RADIUS. Dr. E. E. Blodgett of Detroit. by invitation, reported a case of bilateral anterior luxation of the head of the radius occurring in a girl fifteen years of age. Decreased function was first noted when the patient was an infant by her inability to hold a lump of sugar in the palm of the hand. Chief complaint at the time of examination by the author was a partial disability in either arm, shown by an inability to grasp obje...