The London Medical Review, Volume 1Longman, 1808 |
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... vein of a sheep between two ligatures ; it was cut out , stripped of its ad- hering cellular membrane , and then thrown into a glass of water of temperature 100 ° , standing under the receiver of an air pump . It at once sank to the ...
... vein of a sheep between two ligatures ; it was cut out , stripped of its ad- hering cellular membrane , and then thrown into a glass of water of temperature 100 ° , standing under the receiver of an air pump . It at once sank to the ...
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... veins , apply hydrogen , or nitrogen , or let the lungs be empty , the blood preserves its purple hue . Apply oxygen ... vein a stream of oxygen , and notwithstanding the small surface of blood to which the oxygen was applied , found ...
... veins , apply hydrogen , or nitrogen , or let the lungs be empty , the blood preserves its purple hue . Apply oxygen ... vein a stream of oxygen , and notwithstanding the small surface of blood to which the oxygen was applied , found ...
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... veins , is there not present a cause suffici- ent to explain the union of the oxygen and the carbon , which cause is not present exteriorly to the vessels ? It is well known that the vessels of living organized beings , vegetable and ...
... veins , is there not present a cause suffici- ent to explain the union of the oxygen and the carbon , which cause is not present exteriorly to the vessels ? It is well known that the vessels of living organized beings , vegetable and ...
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... vein . " Vol . I. p . 6 . It is difficult to explain the cause of a variety of report , or fluc- tuation of opinion upon a subject which admits the clearest form of demonstration ; and any addition at this period to our knowledge ...
... vein . " Vol . I. p . 6 . It is difficult to explain the cause of a variety of report , or fluc- tuation of opinion upon a subject which admits the clearest form of demonstration ; and any addition at this period to our knowledge ...
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... vein . " P. 3. Speaking of the fascia transversalis , he adds , " This fascia sends a process before the iliac artery and vein , and another between them . " Again , " Each of these fascia sends down a portion of its sub- stance under ...
... vein . " P. 3. Speaking of the fascia transversalis , he adds , " This fascia sends a process before the iliac artery and vein , and another between them . " Again , " Each of these fascia sends down a portion of its sub- stance under ...
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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.