The London Medical Review, Volume 1Longman, 1808 |
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... practice we shall give in the words of the author , premising that those labouring under ophthalmia were divided into classes , and kept in distinct wards ; and that great care was bestowed in detect- ing the first signs of the disease ...
... practice we shall give in the words of the author , premising that those labouring under ophthalmia were divided into classes , and kept in distinct wards ; and that great care was bestowed in detect- ing the first signs of the disease ...
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... practice is employed , how- ever violent the tendency of the discase may be , its fatal termination will infallibly be prevented , and with much less expense to the patient , than by smaller and more frequent bleeding . According to the ...
... practice is employed , how- ever violent the tendency of the discase may be , its fatal termination will infallibly be prevented , and with much less expense to the patient , than by smaller and more frequent bleeding . According to the ...
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... practice . By this contrast , and by the opposite remedies required for its treatment , we are induced to suspect that the subject has never received , at least in this country , that close and scientific scrutiny which its importance ...
... practice . By this contrast , and by the opposite remedies required for its treatment , we are induced to suspect that the subject has never received , at least in this country , that close and scientific scrutiny which its importance ...
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... practice . The coverings of the sac are described as follows . " The crural hernia , when dissected , presents the following appear- ances : when the skin is removed , the superficial fascia of the external oblique muscle is laid bare ...
... practice . The coverings of the sac are described as follows . " The crural hernia , when dissected , presents the following appear- ances : when the skin is removed , the superficial fascia of the external oblique muscle is laid bare ...
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... is commonly imagined . The taxis is generally esteeined one of those simple points of practice which are to be taken in the natural way . which 1808 . 29 Cooper on Hernia . "But the error which is the most frequent, ...
... is commonly imagined . The taxis is generally esteeined one of those simple points of practice which are to be taken in the natural way . which 1808 . 29 Cooper on Hernia . "But the error which is the most frequent, ...
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Page 47 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Page 187 - Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, &c.
Page 125 - It would appear that a stay for some months on the station, is almost essential for the production of the disease ; and that the greatest predisposition to it exists, when troops have been about eight or twelve months in the settlement.
Page 51 - Such, however, is, at the same time, the nature of the animal economy, that this debility proves an indirect stimulus to the sanguiferous system ; whence, by the intervention of the cold stage and spasm connected with it, the action of the heart and larger arteries is increased, and continues so till it has had the effect of restoring the energy of the brain, of extending this energy to the extreme vessels, of restoring, therefore, their action, and thereby especially overcoming the spasm affecting...
Page 403 - Remarks on the Frequency and Fatality of different Diseases, particularly on the progressive increase of Consumption, with Observations on the influence of the Seasons on Mortality.
Page 91 - Mineralogy with an account of the processes employed in many of the most important chemical manufactures, to which are added a description of chemical apparatus and various useful tables of weights and measures, chemical instruments, etc., etc.
Page 51 - The remote causes are certain sedative powers applied to the nervous system, which, diminishing the energy of the brain, thereby produce a debility in the whole of the functions, and particularly in the action of the extreme vessels.
Page 11 - When the hernia, therefore, enters the sheath, it pushes this fascia before it, so that the sac may be perfectly drawn from its inner side, and the fascia which covers it left distinct. The fascia which forms the crural sheath, and in which are placed the hole or holes for the absorbent vessels, is also protruded forwards, and is united with the other, so that the two become thus consolidated into one.
Page 92 - Treatment is supported by original observations on every period of the disease. To which is added, an inquiry, proving that the medicinal properties of the Digitalis, or Foxglove, are diametrically opposite to what they arc.