First Lines of the Practice of Physic, Page 168, Volume 2Bell & Bradfute, 1808 |
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... seldom succeeded . 1006. 2dy , The action of the uterine vessels may be excited by stimulants applied to them . Thus , those purgatives which particularly sti- mulate the intestinum rectum , may also prove stimulant to the uterine ...
... seldom succeeded . 1006. 2dy , The action of the uterine vessels may be excited by stimulants applied to them . Thus , those purgatives which particularly sti- mulate the intestinum rectum , may also prove stimulant to the uterine ...
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... seldom continue long without being attended with various symptoms or disorders in different parts of the body ; very commonly arising from the blood , which should have passed by the ute- rus , being determined more copiously into other ...
... seldom continue long without being attended with various symptoms or disorders in different parts of the body ; very commonly arising from the blood , which should have passed by the ute- rus , being determined more copiously into other ...
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... seldom have any doubt of the source from whence the blood proceeds , and therefore of the existence of the dis- ease we treat of , 1018. We must allow it to be possible that a OF PHYSIC . 23 Of the HEMATEMESIS, or vomiting of Blood,
... seldom have any doubt of the source from whence the blood proceeds , and therefore of the existence of the dis- ease we treat of , 1018. We must allow it to be possible that a OF PHYSIC . 23 Of the HEMATEMESIS, or vomiting of Blood,
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... seldom found to produce a ple- thoric state of the body , requiring a vicarious outlet . The vomiting of blood , therefore , that is vica- rious of the menstrual flux , is that which com- monly , and almost only , happens upon a suppres ...
... seldom found to produce a ple- thoric state of the body , requiring a vicarious outlet . The vomiting of blood , therefore , that is vica- rious of the menstrual flux , is that which com- monly , and almost only , happens upon a suppres ...
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... seldom to prevent the use of those remedies of amenorrhoea , which might be impro- per in the case of an active idiopathic hæmorrhagy . 1025. Another case of symptomatic hæmate mesis , quite analogous to that already mentioned , is the ...
... seldom to prevent the use of those remedies of amenorrhoea , which might be impro- per in the case of an active idiopathic hæmorrhagy . 1025. Another case of symptomatic hæmate mesis , quite analogous to that already mentioned , is the ...
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