Medico-chirurgical Journal: Or, London Medical and Surgical Review, Volume 1

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1819 - Medicine

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Page 161 - I believe there are few physicians, who, like myself, commenced their professional career, impressed with the doctrines that prevailed in the Schools at the close of the past century, in which the terror of debility was certainly predominant, who will not acknowledge that their subsequent practice has been a continued struggle between the prejudices of education and the staring conviction of opposing facts, which were continually forcing themselves upon their observation...
Page 73 - ... security, and a facility which were a surprise, almost a revelation. The idea of a guarded cutting edge is an old one ; I remember the " Plantagenet " razor, so called, with the comb-like row of blunt teeth, leaving just enough of the edge free to do its work. But this little affair had a blade only an inch and a half long by three quarters of an inch wide. It had a long slender handle, which took apart for packing, and was put together with the greatest ease.
Page 96 - Her constitution was seriously injured, and her appearance was that of a person suffering from large hemorrhages. " On examination, I discovered, in the vagina, a tumour of considerable size, somewhat of a pyriform shape, larger at its base than at its superior extremity, but not attached by a very narrow neck — surrounded at its apex by the os uteri, between which and the tumour the finger could be readily passed without, discovering any immediate connexion, as far as I could ascertain, nearly...
Page 161 - An Inquiry into the Influence of Situation on Pulmonary Consumption; and on the duration of Life: illustrated by Statistical Reports. By JG Mansford.
Page 155 - Farnham. 8vo. 5s. On the Nature and Treatment of Tetanus and Hydrophobia ; with some observations on a natural classification of diseases in general. By Robert Keid, MD 8vo. 7s. 6d. Facts and Observations on Liver Complaints, and those various and extensive Derangements of the Constitution arising from Hepatic irregularity and Obstruction; with practical Remarks on the Biliary and Gastric...
Page 94 - An Essay on the Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment of Inversio Uteri ; with a History of the Successful Extirpation of that Organ, during the Chronic Stage of the Disease. By W.
Page 149 - ... about definitions. It is of more consequence to bear in mind, that this increased (deranged) action of the heart and arteries may arise " From irritation, applied to the nerves of some distant part of the body, between which and the vascular system a primary affinity subsists, exciting that system into violent action by morbid sympathy; or from the effects of something of an irritating nature having been received into, and circulating with the blood, and thereby directly applied to the internal...
Page 245 - It was converted into a pulpy substance, in most parts about a quarter, but in some parts, nearly half an inch in thickness, of a light brown colour, intersected by white membranous lines, and with red spots formed by small vessels injected with their own blood. The synovial membrane on the edge of the cartilaginous surfaces had undergone a similar change of structure, but only for a small extent.
Page 269 - Transactions of a Society for the Improvement of Medical and Chirurgical Knowledge.

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