St. Louis Medical Gazette (Volume 2-3 )

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1898 Excerpt: ... aneurysm treated successfully by the following method: Thirty parts pure gelatin dissolved in fifteen hundred parts normal physiologic salt solution. Seven to eight ounces are slowly injected under skin of buttock. The injections are given from two to fifteen days interval until 10 to 20 are given, this usually sufficing to cure. GELATIN IN ANEURYSMS. Huchord (Buletin de V Acad, de Med., Oct. 2oth)--advises special care in the use of gelatin injections for aneurysm. One patient is reported as having died a few months after treatment from fresh tuberculosis, probably aggravated by pulmonary artery compression resulting from the coagulations. Another died from rapid ischemia encephalus, probably resulting from pressure of coagulations which were found in the neck. The author advises weak solutions used at intervals of eight to ten days, and emphasizes the importance of keeping patient in perfect rest. With these precautions gelatin is considered a rational and valuable treatment of aneurysm, assisting nature in her curative process. YELLOW PALMS AS A SIGN OF TYPHOID FEVER. Filapowicz (Oentralblatt fur die Med. Wissen, 1898, No. 11) emphasizes the importance of the yellow color of the palms and soles in typhoid, the color being proportional to the thickness of the skin. It occurs early and continues into convalescence. It is thought to result from the anemia of skin permitting the subcutaneous fat to show through. MEAT IN LITHEMIA AND (JOUT. Baum (Phila. Polyclinic, Oct. 1, 1898) has experimented with various diets in gouty and lithemic patients, and concludes that to attain definite results the diet should be carefully regulated for a time, during which period no medicine should be used, a diet of animal food, excepting milk, causes a deposit upon the teeth o...