The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, Volumen1J.B. Lippincott, Company, 1841 |
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Página 543 - That delusion may however, and in some cases, be of use while it lasts. There are in every great, rich city a number of persons who are never in health, because they are fond of medicines and always taking them, whereby they derange the natural functions, and hurt their constitution.
Página 454 - ... may have benefited a patient, and led to a partial recovery, but the same would in all probability have taken place wherever he had been sent, it being by no means likely that any beneficial influence can be exerted by the climate itself, when a body of selected soldiers, subject to no severe duty and exposed to no hardship, lose annually a larger proportion of their number by consumption than in the United Kingdom.
Página 279 - Trustee of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, of the University of the State of New-York...
Página 431 - The four seasons of temperate climates are therefore represented by two wet, and two dry seasons ; but, as the rains follow the course of the Sun, it is obvious that the period of their commencement and duration must vary according to the proximity of the settlements to the equator. In Guiana, the most southerly, the Spring rains generally extend from December to January, the Autumnal from May to August, while in the most northerly of these settlements, the former does not commence till April or...
Página 253 - I did not believe this to be the case, but this table shows that there is some foundation for the opinion. In order fairly to try this, the cows who calved before the 260th day, and those who calved after the 300th, ought to be omitted as being anomalous cases, as well as the cases in which twins were produced; and it will then appear that, from the cows whose period of gestation did not exceed 286 days, the number of cow-calves produced was 233, and the number of bull-calves 234; while from those...
Página 543 - None of the cures said to be performed by it, have fallen under my observation, and there being so many disorders which cure themselves, and such a disposition in mankind to deceive themselves and one another, on these occasions, and...
Página 227 - ... the mucous membrane is destroyed. He then pares the edges with scissors or a bistoury, draws them together, and maintains them in apposition by means of straight needles, the points of which are removed, and a twisted suture applied.
Página 49 - ... his own country, and doomed shortly to add another name to the long and melancholy list of his countrymen who have sought, with pain and suffering, a distant country, only to find in it a grave. When the patient is a female, the objections to a journey apply with increased force.
Página 242 - Pellier'* hook. A second assistant draws down the lower eyelid with a double hook which is set in a handle and of which the teeth are connected by a transverse piece. He kneels down before the patient so as not to be in the way. The operator then puts a fine hook into the conjunctiva at the inner angle of the eye just where it is passing from the...
Página 440 - Report ; for if the mortality of the troops depended materially on the influence of moisture, we might expect it to attain its maximum in those stations where the fall of rain was the greatest, whereas the average mortality of the troops in Jamaica is at least double that which prevails among those in British Guiana, though the quantity of rain which falls in that island is little more than half as great...