British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review: Or, Quarterly Journal of Practial Medicine and Surgery, Volumen44

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1869
 

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Página 3 - Therapeutic» and Materia Medica. A Systematic Treatise on the Action and Uses of Medicinal Agents, including their Description and History.
Página 340 - ... Moors, among Visayans, and among Chinese ; but also to secure to posterity, in the dominions of his Majesty, the perpetuity of so great a benefit, partly by means of the central committees that have been established, as well as by the discovery which Balmis made of an indigenous matter in the cows of the valley of Atlixco, near the city of Puebla de los Angeles ; in the neighbourhood of that of Valladolid...
Página 267 - ... that which is usually preferable. The ripe abscess is punctured by means of a thick needle, or the tube of a strong Pravaz syringe ; after most of the pus has been gently pressed out, the injection of eight or ten drops of the solution is practised, the patient being taught himself to empty every three hours the fluid that may have collected.
Página 535 - OBLONGATA. — JB Dompeling reports the case of a patient who met with a fall on the back of the head when about fifteen years of age. Since that time he suffered from sharp pains in the head and in the back of the neck; the lower limbs became considerably enfeebled and there was diplopia. During the space of some years paresis of the limbs of the right side became established with marked blunting of tactile sensibility; sensitiveness to heat was augmented; all the muscles of the right eye were paralysed;...
Página 2 - Pharmacopoeia, by HORATIO C. WOOD, MD, Professor of Botany in the University of Pennsylvania. In one large and handsome octavo volume of 1040 closely printed...
Página 298 - Westmoreland, if it appear from the causes of death that the diseases and constitutions of the population present striking discrepancies. The modifications in the character of diseases, and in the medical treatment, are indicated perhaps more accurately by the prevailing epidemics than by either the temperature, the hygrometricity, or any...
Página 3 - FRS LECTURES ON SOME OF THE APPLICATIONS OF CHEMISTRY AND MECHANICS TO PATHOLOGY AND THERAPEUTICS.
Página 554 - Digitaline, on the contrary, acts with great energy on the heart, throwing it into violent and disorderly contractions, which quickly end in a cessation of movement. The frequency of the contractions is not increased, but is progressively diminished, and the functions of the heart are abolished very early, voluntary power surviving the death of the organ.
Página 552 - ... by this criterion of superior size alone, be diagnosticated from the corpuscles of an ox, sheep, or pig, with the same feeling of certainty with which any surgeon could testify that a perforation of the skull only half an inch across could not possibly have been made by a bullet measuring an inch in diameter.
Página 298 - One of the many obvious applications of the facts will be to the promotion of practical medicine. The extent to which epidemics vary in different localities, seasons, and classes of society, will be indicated by the registered diseases ; and the experienced practitioner, wherever he may be placed, will learn to administer remédies with discrimination, and with due reference to the circumstances of the population.

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