The Elements of Medical Treatment
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The Elements of Medical Treatment

  1. 172 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
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The Elements of Medical Treatment

About this book

The Elements of Medical Treatment is a 22-chapter text that covers the principles and practical applications of elementary therapeutics to common forms of diseases. Each chapter tackles the therapeutic remedies for specific disease, including fever, pain, and insomnia. Constipation, diarrhea, heart failure, bronchitis, anemia, high-blood pressure, gout, and Gravel's disease are considered in the succeeding chapters. Other chapters describe the therapeutic options for urinary-related diseases, dyspepsia, gall-bladder diseases, nephritis, hemorrhage, and diabetes. The final chapters look into some specific treatments, including endocrine treatment, bacteriotherapeutics, psychotherapy, and some minor medical operations. This book will prove useful to physicians and the general public.

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Publisher
Butterworth-Heinemann
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781483201009
eBook ISBN
9781483226033
Topic
Physical Sciences
Subtopic
Chemistry
Index
Chemistry

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. The Elements of Medical Treatment
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. PREFACE
  6. CHAPTER I. SOME GENERAL PRINCIPLES
  7. CHAPTER II. FEVER : DIAPHORETICS AND ANTIPYRETICS
  8. CHAPTER III. PAIN AND THE USE OF ANALGESICS
  9. CHAPTER IV. INSOMNIA AND THE USE OF HYPNOTICS
  10. CHAPTER V. CONSTIPATION : PURGATIVES, APERIENTS, AND ENEMATA
  11. CHAPTER VI. DIARRHOEA AND THE USE OF ASTRINGENTS
  12. CHAPTER VII. HEART FAILURE AND THE USE OF HEART STIMULANTS, HEART TONICS AND DIURETICS
  13. CHAPTER VIII. BRONCHITIS: EXPECTORANTS AND ANTISPASMODICS
  14. CHAPTER IX. ANAEMIA AND THE USE OF HÆMATINICS
  15. CHAPTER X. HIGH BLOOD-PRESSURE, AND THE USE OF VASODILATORS
  16. CHAPTER XI. GOUT AND GRAVEL: URIC ACID SOLVENTS AND LITHONTRIPTICS
  17. CHAPTER XII. DRUGS THAT ACT UPON THE URINE ; URINARY ANTISEPTICS
  18. CHAPTER XIII. DYSPEPSIA AND STOMACH MIXTURES
  19. CHAPTER XIV. DISEASE OF THE GALL-BLADDER: CHOLAGOGUES AND BILIARY ANTISEPTICS
  20. CHAPTER XV. NEPHRITIS
  21. CHAPTER XVI. HEMORRHAGE AND THE USE OF HÆMOSTATICS
  22. CHAPTER XVII. TONICS
  23. CHAPTER XVIII. DIABETES AND THE USE OF INSULIN
  24. CHAPTER XIX. ENDOCRINE TREATMENT
  25. CHAPTER XX. SPECIFIC TREATMENT (BACTERIOTHERAPEUTICS)
  26. CHAPTER XXI. PSYCHOTHERAPY
  27. SOME MINOR MEDICAL OPERATIONS
  28. INDEX

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