Gaillard's Medical Journal and the American Medical Weekly, Volumen11

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1871

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Página 569 - That the thanks of this convention are hereby given to the president, for the able, dignified, and impartial manner in which he has presided over its deliberations, and to the othei officers for the satisfactory manner in which they have fulfilled the duties assigned to them.
Página 575 - BOUVÉ, and the CURATOR. The Report of the TREASURER was read and accepted, and ordered to be printed under the direction of the Treasurer aud Curator, as a part of the Twelfth Annual Report of the Board.
Página 362 - Eritish Medical Journal," he states that objection has been made to the report on the ground " that mercurials possess some specific power of exciting the biliary secretion by acting on the orifice of the common bile-duct, and so stimulating the secretion through the nerves which connect it with the liver, just as pyrethrum or vinegar stimulates the salivary glands when they are applied to the orifices of the salivary ducts.
Página 649 - ... of blood flows thither to enable it to bear the strain, and furnish material to resist future impairment. The palm of the hand and the sole of the foot are thus shielded by a callus, and the limbs which are most employed are enlarged in size and made more tenacious in muscular cohesion. The brain of the student enlarges, becomes more compact, firm of fibre and rapid in changes. Each special sense becomes quicker. Then again, provision is made by sleep...
Página 276 - It consists in passing a long needle twice through the flaps or sides of a wound, so as to cross over and compress the mouth of the bleeding artery or its tube, just in the same way as in fastening a flower in the lapel of our coat, we cross over and compress the stalk of it with the pin which fixes it, and with this view pass the pin twice through the lapel...
Página 174 - ... if it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time to the still more remote period when the earth was passing through physical and chemical conditions, which it can no more see again than a man can recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from not living matter.
Página 520 - Mr. Pope was with Sir Godfrey Kneller one day, when his nephew, a Guinea trader, came in. " Nephew," said Sir Godfrey, " you have the honour of seeing the two greatest men in the world." — " I don't know how great you may be," said the Guinea man, " but I don't like your looks : I have often bought a man, much better than both of you together, all muscles and bones, for ten guineas.
Página 607 - The Change of Life in Health and Disease. A Practical Treatise on the Diseases incidental to Women at the Decline of Life. By EDWARD JOHN TILT, MD Fourth London Edition. 8vo.
Página 476 - Committee of the Alumni Association of the Medical Department of the University of the City of New York purpose the publication, at the earliest possible date, of a complete catalogue of the graduates from that institution since its foundation. The records of the faculty having been destroyed in the burning of the college building some years ago, this project is...

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