New York Medical Journal, Volumen1

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Miller & Matthews, 1865
 

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Página 97 - During sleep the brain is in a comparatively bloodless condition, and the blood in the encephalic vessels is not only diminished in quantity, but moves with diminished rapidity.
Página 88 - THE BLOW-PIPE : A System of Instruction in its practical use being a graduated course of Analysis for the use of students, and all those engaged in the Examination of Metallic Combinations. Second edition, with an appendix and a copious index. By GEORGE W- PLYMPTON, of the Polytechnic Institute, Brooklyn.
Página 95 - This observer states, that while preparing a lecture on the mode of operation of narcotic medicines, he conceived the idea of trying the effect of compressing the carotid arteries on the functions of the brain. The first experiment was performed on himself, by a friend, with the effect of causing immediate and deep sleep. The attempt was frequently made, both on himself and others, and always with success. "A soft humming in the ears is heard; a sense of tingling steals over the body, and in a few...
Página 153 - A Complete Pronouncing Medical Dictionary. Embracing the Terminology of Medicine and the Kindred Sciences, with their Signification, Etymology, and Pronunciation. With an Appendix, comprising an Explanation of the Latin Terms and Phrases occurring in Medicine, Anatomy, Pharmacy, etc., together with the Necessary Directions for Writing Latin Prescriptions, etc., etc. By Joseph Thomas, MD, LL.D. Imperial 8vo, 844 pages, extra cloth, $5.00. Library sheep, $6.00. A Comprehensive Pronouncing Medical Dictionary.
Página 71 - He gave the following summary of the conclusions at which he had arrived. 1. The effects that result from smoking are due to different agents imbibed by the smoker, viz.: carbonic acid, ammonia, nicotine, a volatile empyreumatic substance, and a bitter extract. The more common effects are traceable to the carbonic acid and ammonia; the rarer and more severe to the nicotine, the empyreumatic substance and the extract. 2. The effects produced are very transitory, the poisons finding a ready exit from...
Página 89 - The state of general repose which accompanies sleep is of especial value to the organism in allowing the nutrition of the nervous tissue to go on at a greater rate than its destructive metamorphosis.
Página 261 - AM, MD, Professor of Obstetrics and The Diseases of Women and Children, in the Chicago Medical College.
Página 71 - Vitus' dance, apoplexy, organic diseases of the heart, cancer and consumption, and chronic bronchitis, have been made without any sufficient evidence or reference to facts ; all such statements are devoid of truth, and can never accomplish the object which those who offer them have in view. 6. As the human body is maintained alive and in full...
Página 408 - A distinctive feature of the method of instruction in this College is the union of clinical and didactic teaching. All the lectures are given within the Hospital grounds. During the Regular Winter Session, in addition to four didactic lectures on every week-day, except Saturday, two or three hours are daily allotted to clinical instruction. The...
Página 202 - ... or correct irregularities in their function, and thus lessen the amount of blood in the brain. 2d. Those which directly, either mechanically or through a specific effect upon the circulatory organs, produce a similar effect. Under the first head are embraced many agencies which from time immemorial...

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