British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review: Or, Quarterly Journal of Practial Medicine and Surgery, Volume 34

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1864
 

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Página 128 - ... a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes— will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished...
Página 523 - Such lungs, inflated and dried, present the aspect of a large-holed sponge, the cavities varying in size from that of a hemp-seed to that of a pullet's egg.
Página 177 - If it be born alive it is sufficient, though it be not heard to cry, for peradventure it may be born dumb ;" he also describes " motion, stirring, and the like," as proofs of a child having been born alive.
Página 374 - We prefer the definition of a stimulant as represented in the ideas of the " layman" and the " busy practitioner" to the conclusion which he proposes for adoption — that the " word ' stimulant' be restricted to agents which, by their direct action, tend to rectify some deficient or too redundant natural action or tendency" — a definition which to our apprehension exactly corresponds to purgatives and bowel-astringents.
Página 538 - Solution, in Substance, as a direct Application, in Hospital Gangrene, Diphtheria, Gangrene of the Tongue, and other diseases of this nature: — The parts are first to be dried by the application of charpie; then the sloughs, if thick, should be trimmed out with forceps and scissors as much as possible, for the thinner the slough the more effective is the remedy. The parts having again been dried, the solution is applied by means of a mop, or a pointed stick of wood, in quantity sufficient to saturate...
Página 158 - Flemming, in a paper read before the Bath and Bristol Branch of the British Medical Association, advocates glycerin as a surgical dressing. He uses it in the form of glycerin of starch, BP, with some antiseptic dissolved in it. "The starch...
Página ii - On the Influence of Mechanical and Physiological Rest in the Treatment of Accidents and Surgical Diseases, and the Diagnostic Value of Pain.
Página 531 - A second portion of the emulsion was exhibited to a mouse, which became soon paralyzed in its limbs, and died after a few hours. A third portion was introduced into the circulation of a mouse by the ear, and after twenty-four hours the poison operated fatally, by complete paralysis of the limbs and senses, and the animal died by syncope. A fourth portion of the emulsion from the intestines of deceased, applied to the eye of a rabbit, caused strong contraction of the pupil after three-quarters of...
Página 341 - We return the author our grateful thanks for the vast amount of Instruction he has afforded us. His valuable treatise needs no eulogy on our part. His graphic diction and truthful pictures of disease all speak for themselves.
Página 58 - To me the Caledonian Celt of Scotland appears a race as distinct from the Lowland Saxon of the same country as any two races can possibly be — as Negro from American, Hottentot from Caffre, Esquimaux from Saxon.

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