A Reference handbook of the medical sciences - embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science (1885) (14804254673)

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Title: A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Buck, Albert H. (Albert Henry), 1842-1922
Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: New York : William Wood
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library



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fectly well balanced. In the smaller animals division of the pectoral mus-cles, allowing the fore limbs to lie flat upon the table,and of the adductors of the thigh, allowing the hindlimbs to fall outward, will be found sufficient to keepthe body flat upon its back (see Fig. 4580). For the larger animals, however, especial arrangementshave been devised for holding them in place, and, thoughtoo elaborate for field-work, they can be made practicablein the city, where many dead animals are taken to oneplace. The methods here described will be based uponthe supposition that the operator has appropriate ar-rangements at his disposal, and such substitutions as arenecessary for ordinary field-work will be mentionedafterward. The horse will be taken as the type, and, un-less otherwise mentioned, the description refers to thatanimal. The Horse.—It is always better to have an animal onits back than on its side. It is also better to have thebody on a platform so high that the operator can work
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the origin of vertigo; and,so far as we at present know,this location would seem tobe the semicircular canals.Therefore, whether the im-mediate cause be aural, op-tic, or otherwise, whetherthe action be immediate orreflex, the symptom may beassumed to be due to somedisturbance in the regionjust referred to. Chas. E. Hackle y. 1 Text book of Human Physiology,edition of lS7b\ p. 718. 2 Lectures on the Physiology andPathology of the Central NervousSystem. 1SB0. VERVAIN (Verveine offici-nale, Codex Med.), Verbenaofficinalis. Order Verbenaeece,an annual or biennial herb,common in dry, sterile fieldsin Europe, now and then cul-tivated in this country, for-merly popular as a domestic herb, now fast becomingobsolete. It is mildly astringent, and a slight tonic.Dose indefinite. Verveine odor ante, Codex Med., the leaf of Lippia citri-odova Kunth, in the same order, is the pleasant lemonverbena of the flower gardens; it is used in cheap per-fumery. Several species of verbena appear in endlesshy