Buffalo Medical Journal and Monthly Review, Volum 4

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1849
 

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Pàgina 431 - Like the vase in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Pàgina 514 - MEDICAL LEXICON ; a Dictionary of Medical Science. Containing a concise explanation of the various subjects and terms of Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, Hygiene, Therapeutics, Pharmacology, Pharmacy, Surgery, Obstetrics, Medical Jurisprudence, and Dentistry.
Pàgina 16 - s the disease he means ? Mai. 'T is call'd the evil ; A most miraculous Work in this good king : Which often, since my here-remain in England, I have seen him do. How he solicits heaven, Himself best knows : but strangely-visited people, All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye, The mere despair of surgery, he cures ; Hanging a. golden stamp about their necks, Put on with holy prayers : and 't is spoken, To the succeeding royalty he leaves The healing benediction.
Pàgina 40 - ... the palm of the hand or the sole of the foot The trouble and anxiety which attend such cases, are familiar to every surgeon.
Pàgina 220 - No other component part of the organism can be compared to the blood, in respect of the feeble resistance which it offers to exterior influences. The blood is not an organ which is formed, but an organ in the act of formation ; indeed, it is the sum of all the organs which are being formed. The chemical force and the vital principle hold each other in such perfect equilibrium, that every disturbance, however trifling, or from whatever cause it may proceed, effects a change in the blood.
Pàgina 310 - THE CAUSES AND TREATMENT OF ABORTION AND STERILITY : being the result of an extended Practical Inquiry into the Physiological and Morbid Conditions of the Uterus, with reference especially to Leucorrhoeal Affections, and the Diseases of Menstruation.
Pàgina 69 - Perkins's last publication, to about five thousand. Supposing that not more than one cure in three hundred which the Tractors have performed has been published, and the proportion is probably much greater, it will be seen that the number, to March last, will have exceeded one million five hundred thousand...
Pàgina 750 - ... return of the blood from the lungs, occasion an engorgement of the right side of the heart and of the venous system, and in the end, cyanotic phenomena, with an extension of the hypertrophy and dilatation to the right side of the heart Further, those conditions of extreme thickness of the lung, continued compression of it, (by exudations) atelectasis, catarrh and bronchial dilatation, emphysema, pneumonia and extensive...
Pàgina 168 - Joshua H. Worthington, of the Friends' Asylum at Frankford, Pa. ; Dr. NC Benedict, of the Blockley Insane Asylum at Philadelphia; Dr. Fonerden, of the Maryland Hospital at Baltimore ; Dr. Wm. M. Awl, of the Ohio Lunatic Asylum at Columbus; Dr. John M. Gait, of the Eastern Asylum of Virginia at Williamsburg; and Dr.
Pàgina 107 - During the whole of this time the symptoms remained precisely as they were the moment he first observed them ; but as he was walking along, on his return, they suddenly increased, the numbness being accompanied by a sense of want of power, and a sort of dragging of the muscles of the legs, which soon became so great, that, as he describes it, he had to put his hands at the back of his thighs in order to push h'is legs along.

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