The Cincinnati Medical Repertory, Volume 3

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John Adams Thacker
J. A. Thacker., 1870 - Medicine
 

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Page 197 - THE PHYSIOLOGY OF MAN. Designed to represent the Existing State of Physiological Science as applied to the Functions of the Human Body.
Page 577 - Secretary read the following preamble and resolutions, which •were unanimously adopted : — WHEREAS, It has pleased God to remove by death our fellowmember, ROBERT M.
Page 351 - ... construction, he would recollect it, examine it, exaggerate it, perhaps dwell upon it for a month, and conclude by a total breach with you. Hence it was, that there was scarce a possibility of undeceiving him ; for the light which broke in upon him at once was not sufficient to efface the wrong impressions which had taken place so gradually in his mind.
Page 540 - The patient is incessantly under the most overwhelming desire for stimulants. He will disregard every impediment, sacrifice comfort and reputation, withstand the claims of affection, consign his family to misery and disgrace, and deny himself the common necessaries of life to gratify his insane propensity. In the morning, morose and fretful, disgusted with himself, and dissatisfied with all around him, weak and tremulous, incapable of any exertion either of mind or body, his first feeling is a desire...
Page 199 - Manual of Chemical Examinations of the Urine in Disease; with Brief Directions for the Examination of the most Common Varieties of Urinary Calculi. Revised edition. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00.
Page 199 - The chief aim of this little work is to enable the busy practitioner to make for himself, rapidly and easily, all ordinary examinations of Urine ; to give him the benefit of the author's experience in eliminating little difficulties in the manipulations, and in reducing processes of analysis to the utmost simplicity that is consistent with accuracy.
Page 361 - ... any special contraindications to the employment of chloral when used for somniferous purposes. Even in head and chest affections, where I should have been chary of having recourse to opium as an hypnotic, I have employed chloral with perfect success. The contraindications to opium offered by a tendency to constipation, etc., do not exist against chloral. Like all other remedies in the Pharmacopoeia, it will, no doubt, occasionally fail to produce its desired effect ; but as seldom so, perhaps,...
Page 63 - It is not probable that it will supersede the volatile anaesthetics for the purpose of removing pain during the performance of surgical operations, but it might be employed to obtain and keep up the sleep in cases of painful disease. This research had, however, led to the fact that chloroform, when injected subcutaneously in efficient doses, leads to as perfect and as prolonged a narcotism as the hydrate, with...
Page 198 - The Cell Doctrine ; its History and Present State. For the use of students in medicine and dentistry. Also a copious Bibliography of the subject. By JAMES TYSON, MD, Lecturer on Microscopy in the University of Pennsylvania, and on Physiology in the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery; Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, &c.
Page 318 - ... are in every respect as perfect and correct in size, shape, color, state of the lymph, the period of the appearance and disappearance of the areola, its tint, and finally the compact texture of the scab, as they were in the first year of vaccination; and to the best of my knowledge, the matter from which they are derived was that taken from a cow about sixteen years ago.

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