The Science and practice of medicine v. 1, Volume 1

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Lindsay & Blakiston, 1866
 

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Page 602 - Holds such an enmity with blood of man, That, swift as quicksilver, it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body ; And, with a sudden vigour, it doth posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood...
Page 146 - The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Page 250 - There is no contagion so strong and sure as that of small-pox, none that operates at so great a distance.
Page 413 - ... by the end of the second week, or the beginning of the third, the normal temperature is again attained.
Page 41 - The following works are recommended for study, and as guides for acquiring the best methods of observing and recording cases : — (1.) A Manual of Medical Diagnosis, by AW Barclay, MD ; (2.) A Handbook of Hospital Practice; or, an Introduction to the Practical Study of Medicine at the Bedside, by Robert D. Lyons, MB, Professor of Medicine in the Catholic University of Ireland; (3.) An Introduction to Clinical Medicine, by John Hughes Bennett, MD, senior Professor of Clinical Medicine in the University...
Page 126 - The heat is especially felt in the palms of the hands and soles of the feet. The...
Page 33 - The objects and powers of your art are alike great and elevated. Your aim is, as far as possible, to alleviate human suffering and lengthen out human existence. Your ambition is to gladden as well as to prolong the course of human life, by warding off disease as the greatest of mortal evils, and restoring health, and even, at times, reason itself, as the greatest of mortal blessings.
Page 734 - ... pudding, any kind of poultry or game, and two or three glasses of good claret, sherry, or Madeira — Champagne, Port and beer forbidden.
Page 189 - Monorganici. (fi6fr>;, alone, without others ; oQ^rn'ov, organ.) Sporadic diseases in which the functions of particular organs or systems are disturbed or obliterated, with or without inflammation ; sometimes hereditary.
Page 715 - Parker recommends an apparatus, for the use of which the patient is placed on a chair, and covered with an oil-cloth lined with flannel, which is supported by a proper framework. Under the chair are placed a copper bath containing from half a pint to a pint of water, and a tinned iron plate, on which is put from one to three drachms of the bisulphuret of ' mercury, or the same quantity of the gray oxide, or the binoxide, or other mercurial preparation ; under each of these is a spirit lamp.

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