Maryland Medical Journal: Medicine and Surgery, Volumen10

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Medical Journal Company, 1884
 

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Página 333 - A Treatise on Therapeutics. Comprising Materia Medica and Toxicology, with Especial Reference to the Application of the Physiological Action of Drugs to Clinical Medicine.
Página 113 - Every year thousands undergo this operation; and the French ambassador says pleasantly, that they take the smallpox here by way of diversion, as they take the waters in other countries. There is no example of any one that has died in it; and you may believe I am well satisfied of the safety of this experiment, since I intend to try it on my dear little son. I am patriot enough to take pains to bring this useful invention into fashion in England...
Página 254 - But no one can be considered as a regular practitioner, or a fit associate in consultation, whose practice is based on an exclusive dogma, to the rejection of the accumulated experience of the profession, and of the aids actually furnished by anatomy, physiology, pathology, and organic chemistry.
Página 419 - Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command, A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill, A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man.
Página 113 - The smallpox, so fatal and so general amongst us, is here entirely harmless by the invention of ingrafting, which is the term they give it. There is a set of old women who make it their business to perform the operation every autumn, in the month of September, when the great heat is abated. People send to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the smallpox ; they make parties for this purpose, and when they are met (commonly fifteen or sixteen together), the old woman comes...
Página 118 - The invention all admired, and each, how he To be the inventor missed ; so easy it seemed Once found, which yet unfound most would have thought Impossible...
Página 148 - In some the slightest touch is sufficient to excite it, in others chronic hypersemia or hypertrophy of the cavernous bodies seems to evoke it by constant irritation of the reflex centres, as occurs in similar conditions of other erectile organs, as, for example, the clitoris. (6) That this exaggerated or disordered functional activity of the area may possibly throw some light on the physiological destiny of the erectile bodies. Among other properties which they possess, may they not act as sentinels...
Página 157 - HAMMOND, MD, Professor of Diseases of the Mind and Nervous System in the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, etc. With 118 Illustrations. NINTH EDITION, WITH CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS. 8vo. 932 pages. Cloth, $5.00; sheep, $6.00. "Dr. Hammond's treatise on the diseases of the nervous system...
Página 191 - ... told Morton to use sulphuric ether instead of nitrous oxide gas, as it was known to possess the same properties, was as safe, and easier to get. 12th. That Morton, acting upon Jackson's off-hand suggestion, used the ether successfully in the extraction of teeth, (1846.) 13th. That Warren...
Página 315 - Lancet: 1. Always have the window opened before entering the patient's room or ward. 2. Never stand between the patient and the fire, but always between him and the open window. 3. If possible, change your coat before entering the room. 4. Do not go in for unnecessary auscultation or other physical examination. 5. Stay as short a time as possible in the room.

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