Thoracic Diseases: Their Pathology, Diagnosis and Treatment

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D. and M. Calkins, 1854 - Chest - 439 pages

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Page xv - They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and look : for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet.
Page xv - About whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, desiring to have judgment against him. 16 To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before that he which is accused have the accusers face to face, and have licence to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him.
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Page 346 - Is phthisis contagious ? No, I verily believe it is not. A diathesis is not communicable from person to person. Neither can the disease be easily (if at all) generated in a sound constitution. Nor is it ever imparted, in my opinion, even by one scrofulous individual to another.
Page 378 - The apex beats between the cartilages of the fifth and sixth left ribs, at a point about two inches below the nipple and one inch on its sternal side.
Page 309 - The clavicular regions are nearly immoveable during respiration; and when the patient attempts to make a full inspiration, the upper part of the thorax, instead of expanding with the appearance of spontaneous ease peculiar to the healthy state of the lungs, seems to be forcibly dragged upwards at each effort to accomplish it.
Page 306 - ... parts of the palms of the hands and soles of the feet. The nucleus is often not apparent.
Page 298 - So that, at this rate, pneumonia is more than twice as common on the right side as on the left ; and does not occur on both sides together so often as once in eight times.
Page 330 - I think it is more than probable that hardly any person is carried off by a first attack of phthisis. Since I was first led to adopt this opinion on anatomical grounds, it has frequently appeared quite clear to me, from carefully comparing the history of my patients with the appearances on dissection, that the greater number of those first attacks are mistaken for slight colds...
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