The principles and methods of therapeutics / by Adolphe Gubler ; tr. from the French.

  • Adolphe-Marie Gubler
Date:
1881
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    vantages ; Vaginal Mucous Membrane—The same ; Uterine Mucous Membrane—Dangers of this avenue—Uterine injections ; Ocular Apparatus—Collyri urns ; Nasal Fossaz and Pharynx ; Eustachian Tube, Tympanic Cavity; Respiratory Organs—Gases and vapors, turpentine, sulphuretted hydrogen; Liquid Bodies—Rapidity of their absorption ; Solid Bodies ; Pulverulent Solid Bodies; Fumiga- tions; Inhalations. CHAPTER VIII.—RESPIRATORY METHOD ; INHALATIONS ; FUMIGATIONS 99 Fumigations—Their origin — Olfactory inhalations—The part which water performs in fumigations—Emollient inhalations—Inhala- tions of mineral waters, sulphurous inhalations—The sulphurariae ; Inhalations of Dry Vapors—Camphor, tar, essence of turpentine— Eucalyptus, datura and belladonna cigarettes-^Nitre-paper cigar- ettes—Inhalation of opium ; Inhalations of Carbonic Ada, of nitro- gen, of compressed air, of oxygen. CHAPTER IX. —AEROTHERAPY; ATOMIZATION OF LI- QUIDS 109 Air—Its effect—Asthma; Barified Air—Anaemia at high altitudes; Inhalations of Oxygen—Accumulation of oxygen in the blood ; Ozone ; On the Atomization of Liquids—Experiments. CHAPTER X.—ATOMIZATION OF LIQUIDS 120 Chemical Alterations of Atomized Mineral Waters ; Physiological Action of Atomized Douches—Percussion, temperature, chemical composition, precautions to be taken—Pulmonary atomizing of sulphate of qui- nine solutions ; Atomization in Ocular and Uterine Cases ; Aqua- puncture. CHAPTER XL—OPEN WOUNDS; CUTANEOUS METHODS 128 Absorption through Wounds; Absorption by the Serous Cavities; Cutaneous Absorption—Fallacy of the arguments advanced in favor of absorp- tion through the unimpaired skin—Refutation of those arguments. CHAPTER XIL—CUTANEOUS METHOD; BATHS 140 Cutaneous Absorption [continued] : Action of fatty bodies—Volatile substances—Action of the law of gaseous diffusion—Processes adapted to favoring absorption through the skin — Specialty of certain regions—Medicinal baths, their value.