British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review: Or, Quarterly Journal of Practial Medicine and Surgery, Volume 30

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Page 561 - A SYSTEM of SURGERY, Theoretical and Practical. In Treatises by Various Authors.
Page 318 - Ophthalmic Surgeon to King's College Hospital and Surgeon to the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital. Third Edition, 8vo, with Coloured Plates and Engravings, 25s. 0873] BY THE SAME AUTHOR, LONG, SHORT, AND WEAK SIGHT, and their Treatment by the Scientific use of Spectacles.
Page 343 - I have adopted is very simple; it consists in placing a little mirror, fixed on a long handle, suitably bent, in the throat of the person experimented on against the soft palate and uvula. The party ought to turn himself towards the sun so that the luminous rays, falling on the little mirror, may be reflected on the larynx. If the observer experiments on himself he ought by means of a second mirror to receive the rays of the sun and direct them on the mirror which is placed against the uvula.
Page 451 - Plates. 8vo. cloth, 12s. 6d. LECTURES ON THE GERMS AND VESTIGES OF DISEASE, and on the Prevention of the Invasion and Fatality of Disease by Periodical Examinations. 8vo.
Page 442 - MD. Senior Physician to the Royal Infirmary for Diseases of the Chest : Physician to the London Hospital. Second Edition, post 8vo, cloth, & "The work of one who is evidently an excellent auscultator.
Page 385 - Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Physician to King's College Hospital — IV. On Dispensaries and Allied Institutions. By EDWARD H. SIEVEKING, MD, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians— V.
Page 117 - is shaped in front like a wedge, the thick part or instep rising in a ridge from the centre or middle toe, instead of the great toe, as in the foot, slanting off to both sides from the middle, terminating at each side and in front like a wedge ; that for the inside or great toe being similar to that for the outside or little toe, as if the human foot had the great toe in the middle and a little toe at each side, like the foot of a goose...
Page 46 - Preface. During the past two years, this revision of former labors has been my principal occupation, and in its present state the work may be considered to embody the matured experience of the many years I have devoted to the study of uterine disease.
Page 111 - Secretary, will direct its inquiries to the principles and practices connected with the inspection of recruits and enlisted men ; the sanitary condition of the volunteers ; to the means of preserving and restoring the health, and of securing the general comfort and efficiency of troops; to the proper provision of cooks, nurses, and hospitals ; and to other subjects of like nature.
Page 157 - Inflammation of the mucous membranes of a peculiar kind ; so-called strumous ophthalmia ; inflammation of the tarsi ; catarrhal inflammations of the mucous membrane of the nose, pharynx, bronchi, stomach, and intestines ; inflammation and suppuration of the lymphatic glands on trifling irritation ; obstinate diseases of the skin ; caries of bone.

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