The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly Journal Containing a Retrospective View of Every Discovery and Practical Improvement in the Medical Sciences ..., Volums 68-69

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W. A. Townsend Publishing Company, 1874
 

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Pàgina 161 - Be this as it may, there can be no doubt that the "Psalm of Life...
Pàgina 143 - If pressure is made with the same force on the common carotid above the " carotid tubercle " (ie, the anterior tubercle of the transverse process of the sixth cervical vertebra), the space below that tubercle being left free, the jet from the internal carotid wholly ceases.
Pàgina 279 - THE PRINCIPLES OF MENTAL PHYSIOLOGY. With their Applications to the Training and Discipline of the Mind, and the Study of its Morbid Conditions.
Pàgina 178 - That many cases of indurated chancre, treated early by mercury, never show any of the characteristic symptoms of the secondary stage. " That in other cases of mercurial cure of the chancre, in which yet secondary symptoms do occur, they are usually milder than if allowed to develop without specific treatment. " That, when mercury does not wholly abrogate the secondary stage, it exhibits a remarkable power in delaying it.
Pàgina 176 - That mercury is probably a true vital antidote against the syphilitic virus, and that it is capable of bringing about a real cure. That, in practice, a good many cases are really cured by mercury, the cure being proved by the restoration to good health, and in some cases by renewed susceptibility to contagion.
Pàgina 256 - Air is a mixture of two gases, — oxygen and nitrogen, — in the proportion of one part of the former to four of the latter. Oxygen is the active gas, the feeding and warming gas, the life-giving principle of nature. It has been well named " the great supporter of animal life.
Pàgina 112 - ... repugnance place the mouth at the illuminated focus of the electric beam and inhale the dirt revealed there. Nor is the disgust abolished by the reflection that, although we do not see the nastiness, we are churning it in our lungs every hour and minute of our lives. There is no respite to this contact with dirt ; and the wonder is, not that we should from time to time suffer from its presence, but that so small a portion of it would appear to be deadly to man.
Pàgina 266 - ... before the complete dilatation of the os, and when the sharp grinding pains perhaps produce more suffering and are less easily borne than the more forcing pains of a later stage.
Pàgina 273 - Ringer, who also adds that it is most efficacious in the colic of children, and also in the night terrors of young children. The latter writer expresses the following opinion as to its effect in convulsive diseases : — " Although convulsions may be excited by many causes, it is probable that the conditions of the nervous centres producing the attack are in every instance identical ; and it appears to be these conditions which the bromide controls.
Pàgina 112 - The air of our London rooms is loaded with this organic dust, nor is the country air free from its pollution. However ordinary daylight may permit it to disguise itself, a sufficiently powerful beam causes the air in which the dust is suspended to appear as a semi-solid rather than as a gas. Nobody could, in the first instance, without repugnance place the mouth at the illuminated focus of the...

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