Bismuth paste in chronic suppurations : its diagnostic importance and therapeutic value / by Emil G. Beck ... with an introduction by Carl Beck, M. D., and a chapter on the application of bismuth paste in the treatment of chronic suppuration of the nasal accessory sinuses and the ear, by Joseph C. Beck, M. D. With eighty-one engravings, nine diagrammatic illustrations, and a colored plate.

  • Beck, Emil G., 1866-1932.
Date:
1914
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Bismuth paste in chronic suppurations : its diagnostic importance and therapeutic value / by Emil G. Beck ... with an introduction by Carl Beck, M. D., and a chapter on the application of bismuth paste in the treatment of chronic suppuration of the nasal accessory sinuses and the ear, by Joseph C. Beck, M. D. With eighty-one engravings, nine diagrammatic illustrations, and a colored plate. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

    235/248 (page 231)
    Cases cited—cont'd. severe pyorrhea alveolaris, 223 simple empyema, 140 sinus following tuberculous peritonitis, 111, 115 sinus from dermoid cyst, 128 sinus from pyogenic osteomye- litis of the femur, 95 spondylitis of tenth dorsal, with supraclavicular and lumbar sinuses, 63 spondylitis, sixteen years' dura- tion, 64 subphrenic abscess following appendicitis, 40 tuberculosis in os calcis, 105 tuberculosis of elbow with mul- tiple cold abscess, 163 tuberculosis of kidney, 122 tuberculosis of sacrum mis- taken for hip joint disease, 39 tuberculosis of sternum mis- taken for tuberculosis of ribs, 109 tuberculous ankle, ten years' duration, 103 tuberculous kidney, 119 tuberculous peritonitis, 115 unsuspected renal sinus, 41 value of radiograph in diagno- sis, 31 Cases suitable for bismuth paste treatment, 53 treated, table of, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51 Cause of abscess, 24 of cold abscess, 25, 155 of empyema, 24 of failure, faulty technic, 176 of failure, foreign body, 173,175 of failure, sequestrum, 174 of failure, unexplained, 177 of failure of bismuth paste, 171, 172 of fistula, 26, 130 of methemoglobinemia, 187 of psoas abscess, 25 of sinus, 24, 26 of sequestrum, 71 of suppuration, 24 Cautery, application after, of in- ferior turbinated body, 214 Cavity after Estlander operation, 140 Chemotactic action of bismuth paste, 58, 168 Chest cases, technic in, 137 x-ray in, 137 Chronic alveolar abscess, 221 fistula, 221 lacunar tonsilitis, 202 suppuration of antrum of High- more, 202 suppuration of middle ear, 202 suppurations, table of cases of, about head and neck, 200 Clinical course of joint tubercu- losis, 84 Coccyx, dermoid cyst of, mistaken for rectal fistula, 128 Cold abscess, bismuth paste in treatment of, 154 cases treated, table of, 165 cause of, 25, 155 danger of incising, 26 treatment of, 157, 160 hip joint abscess, 162 psoas abscess, 161 Colored fluids, unreliability of, 32 Contraindication of bismuth paste, 172 Curative effects of bismuth paste, discovery of, 44 Cyst, dermoid, of coccyx mistaken for rectal fistula, 128 of sacrum mistaken for rectal fistula, 128 sinus of jaw due to, 224 Cystic kidney with calculi, 119 D Deficiency in lime salts, 104 Deformity as complication of spondylitis, 62 of spine in spondylitis, 64 Dentistry, bismuth paste in 171, 218 Dermoid cyst of coccyx mistaken for rectal fistula, 128 of sacrum mistaken for rectal fistula, 128 Diagnosis, aid in, 20 anatomical, 28 failure of bismuth paste due to incorrect, 125 stereoradiograph as guide in, 31, 146 value of radiograph in, 31 Diagnostic aid, bismuth paste as, 135 errors, bismuth paste reveals, 35,124 Diffuse tuberculous ostitis, SI Discovery of curative effects of bismuth paste, 44 Dressing, post-operative, in infe- rior turbinectomy, 214