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Osteopathic Physicians for Military Service; Hearings Before the Committee on Military Affairs, House of Representatives, Sixty-fifth Congress, Second ... Physicians to Examinations for Commissions
United States. Congress. Affairs
Paperback. RareBooksClub.com 2013-09-13.
ISBN 9781130619003
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...so-called "rusty" sputum that a part of it is absorbed, and that if the patient recovers he und'e'rg, §e.#£ 'What is known as resolution. He knows that if the patient does 'not'get well paralysis by poisoning of the heart ner'vés"-by Itife t'1&§i'P='.:..0i§'-'1;l;1'0'-.§= germs. He would have to know that there was; cltgnger-.to-the. heart after the crisis as well as before. In other w0r§ls., :l1U!'@'fU1'd have to know the clinical course, pathology and rlange1is'df f-h'e disease in exactly the same way that the medical man would. The only difference would come in the manner in which he would treat the disease, and we find that as a general rule most medical men of high standing now treat pneumonia practically without drugs, with the exception of stimulants which are administered in preparation for or during the crisis. The osteopath would substitute for those stimulants the manipulative treatment, directed to the spine and ribs, with the idea in view of relieving the vascular congestion and the poor innervation, or to stimulate the innervation of the lungs by such manipulation. Practice has proven that this form of manipulation does yield wonderful results. Instead of employing the manipulative treatment, the medical man would give strychnine as a heart stimulant as the diseaseprogressed toward the crisis. Now, the osteopath has been taught the principles of hypodermic injections, and if he were in the Army service and were ordered to give the hypodermic treatment, he would be competent to administer the strychnine by hypodermic injection. In the matter of these general principles, the osteopathic students have about the same opportunity to learn that the medical
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