London Medical Gazette: Or, Journal of Practical Medicine, Volume 401847 |
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Page 232 - I may, however, remind you of the principal character which all th*se cases seem to present; it is, that they who labor under this disease are fit enough for all the ordinary events of calm and quiet life, but are wholly unable to resist the storm of a sickness, an accident, or an operation.
Page 52 - Yet, though this increase and persistence of the morbid structure be the general and larger rule, another within it is to be remembered ; namely, that in these structures there is usually (especially in youth) a tendency towards the healthy state. Hence, cicatrices, after long endurance, and even much increase, may, as it is said, wear out ; and thickenings and indurations of parts may give way, aiid all become again pliant and elastic.
Page 439 - If, through an erroneous notion as to the nature of this affection, nourishment and cordials be not given ; or if the diarrhoea continue, either spontaneously or from the administration of medicine, the exhaustion which ensues is apt to lead to a very different train of symptoms. The countenance becomes pale, and the cheeks cool or cold ; the eyelids are half closed, the eyes are...
Page 544 - ... nitrate of silver is to be passed over the moistened surface, taking care that not. only every part of the inflamed skin be touched, but the surrounding healthy skin, to the extent of an inch or...
Page 475 - No answer or translation given by any Candidate shall be objected to on the ground of its expressing any peculiarity of doctrinal views.
Page 294 - ... doses, it is sometimes highly useful to give them powerful doses of various highly concentrated medicines, in globules, similar in appearance to all the rest, but consisting of Morphia, Strychnine, Arsenic, Corrosive Sublimate, and such like : a few of these, mingled with your sugar and starch globules, will cause effects to be felt by the sceptic, which will quickly overcome his disbelief — he generally makes an excellent patient, and often a good decoy duck. Never...
Page 54 - When the brain is said to be essential, as the organ or instrument of the Mind in its relations with the external world, not only to the perception of sensations, but to the subsequent intellectual acts, and, especially, to the memory of things which have been the objects of sense, — it is asked, how can the brain be the organ of memory when you suppose its substance to be ever changing ? or, how is it that your assumed nutritive change of all the particles of the brain is not...
Page 54 - ... intellectual act, is fixed and there retained ; because the part, be it what it may, which has been thereby changed, is exactly represented in the part which, in the course of nutrition, succeeds to it. Thus, in the recollection of sensuous things, the Mind refers to a brain, in which are retained the effects, or rather, the likenesses of changes that past impressions and intellectual acts had made. As, in some way passing far our knowledge, the Mind perceived, and took...
Page 94 - In that case, at once obtain the assistance of some other practitioner. This is the season when advice may be really useful, for it is only at the outset of the disease that its cure is possible; when convulsions have occurred, or coma is coming on, your treatment matters comparatively little, for the season of hope and the opportunity for action have then fled.
Page 52 - After any injury or disease by which the structure of a part is impaired, we find the altered structure, whether an induration, a cicatrix, or any other, as it were, perpetuated by assimilation. It is not that an unhealthy process continues ; the result is due to the process of exact assimilation, operating in a part of which the structure has been changed ; the same process which once preserved the healthy state maintains now the diseased one.