The Elements of Medical Treatment
- 1st Edition - September 3, 2013
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Author: Robert Hutchison
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 2 6 0 3 - 3
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… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThe 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.
I.-Some General PrinciplesII.-Fever: Diaphoretics and AntipyreticsIII.-Pain: AnalgesicsIV.-Insomnia: HypnoticsV.-Constipation: Purgatives and EnemataVI.-Diarrhœa: AstringentsVII.-Heart Failure: Heart Stimulants, Heart Tonics, DiureticsVIII.-Bronchitis: Expectorants and AntispasmodicsIX.-Anæmia: HæmatinicsX.-High Blood-Pressure: VasodilatorsXI.-Gout and Gravel: Uric-Acid Solvents and LithontripticsXII.-Drugs that Act Upon the Urine: Urinary AntisepticsXIII.-Dyspepsia: Stomach MixturesXIV.-Disease of the Gall-Bladder: Cholagogues and Biliary AntisepticsXV.-NephritisXVI.-Hæmorrhage: HæmostaticsXVII.-TonicsXVIII.-Diabetes: InsulinXIX.-Endocrine TreatmentXX.-Specific Treatment (Bacteriotherapeutics)XXI.-PsychotherapyXXII.-Some Minor Medical OperationsIndex
- Edition: 1
- Published: September 3, 2013
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN: 9781483226033
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