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... Causes - Page 714 - 715 - 716 - 717 - 718. Page Page POISONS - continued . Irritating and Depressing Irritant and Alterant - Narcotic - 433 - 447 PUSTULAR ERUPTIONS PUSTULE , MALIGNANT - Definition- Causes 611 - - 612 - 460 Narcotico ...
... Causes - Page 714 - 715 - 716 - 717 - 718. Page Page POISONS - continued . Irritating and Depressing Irritant and Alterant - Narcotic - 433 - 447 PUSTULAR ERUPTIONS PUSTULE , MALIGNANT - Definition- Causes 611 - - 612 - 460 Narcotico ...
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... Causes of - Nature - Treatment SCARLET FEVER - Definition Description of Regular Types and Irregular Forms Complications of Prominent Affections in Sequelæ of State of the Blood in Appearances after Death Diagnosis Causes of ...
... Causes of - Nature - Treatment SCARLET FEVER - Definition Description of Regular Types and Irregular Forms Complications of Prominent Affections in Sequelæ of State of the Blood in Appearances after Death Diagnosis Causes of ...
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... causes it to approach more nearly the fluids exhaled from inflamed serous membranes . ivation proceeds and increases ; the quantity 564. B. The injurious effects of mercurial va- of saliva discharged sometimes amounting to pours have ...
... causes it to approach more nearly the fluids exhaled from inflamed serous membranes . ivation proceeds and increases ; the quantity 564. B. The injurious effects of mercurial va- of saliva discharged sometimes amounting to pours have ...
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... cause , and are duly considered at other places . 576. 2d . In this way , also , may be explained the several morbid ... causes concur , if not en- tirely produce them . | 578. F. Intolerance of Mercury . - The injuri ous effects now ...
... cause , and are duly considered at other places . 576. 2d . In this way , also , may be explained the several morbid ... causes concur , if not en- tirely produce them . | 578. F. Intolerance of Mercury . - The injuri ous effects now ...
Page 461
... causes an acid taste in the mouth and throat , and a sense of burn- ing in the uvula ; hence , when a person is im- mersed in this gas , he dies at once of suffoca- tion . The effects , however , are very different when the gas is ...
... causes an acid taste in the mouth and throat , and a sense of burn- ing in the uvula ; hence , when a person is im- mersed in this gas , he dies at once of suffoca- tion . The effects , however , are very different when the gas is ...
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Page 429 - A Dictionary of Practical Medicine : Comprising General Pathology, the Nature and Treatment of Diseases, Morbid Structures, and the Disorders especially...
Page 559 - No tongue can tell the heart-breaking calamity they have caused ; they have closed the eyes just opened upon a new world of love and happiness ; they have bowed the strength of manhood into the dust ; they have cast the helplessness of infancy into the stranger's arms, or bequeathed it, with less cruelty, the death of its dying parent. There is no tone deep enough for regret, and no voice loud enough for warning.
Page 559 - The very outcast of the streets has pity upon her sister in degradation when the seal of promised maternity is impressed upon her. The remorseless vengeance of the law, brought down upon its victim by a machinery as sure as destiny, is arrested in its fall at a word which reveals her transient claim for mercy. The solemn prayer of the liturgy singles out her sorrows from the multiplied trials of life, to plead for her in the hour of peril. God forbid that any member of the profession to which she...
Page 682 - Good Hope have occasionally been without rain for several years, these diseases are more frequent in the dry climate of that command, than in the West Indies, where the condition of the atmosphere is as remarkably the reverse ; yet have extreme cold and atmospheric vicissitudes, coupled with excess of moisture, been assigned as satisfactory causes for their prevalence.
Page 558 - Suppose a few writers of authority can be found to profess a disbelief in contagion, — and they are very few compared with those who think differently, — is it quite clear that they formed their opinions on a view of all the facts, or is it not apparent that they relied mostly on their own solitary experience ? Still further, of those whose names...
Page 558 - April 21st, when, having thoroughly cleansed myself, I resumed my practice, and had no more puerperal fever. " The cases were not confined to a narrow space. The two nearest were half a mile from each other, and half that distance from my residence. The others were from two to three miles apart, and nearly that distance from my residence. There were no other cases in their immediate vicinity which came to my knowledge.
Page 797 - M. Recamier has employed compression upon a very large scale, and the more important part of his results is as follows : ' Of one hundred cancerous patients, sixteen appeared to be incurable, and underwent only a palliative treatment; thirty were completely cured by compression alone, and twenty-one derived considerable benefit from it ; fifteen were radically cured by extirpation alone, or chiefly by extirpation and pressure combined, and six by compression and cauterisation ; in the twelve remaining...
Page 558 - The 10th, I attended another, Mrs. G., who sickened, but recovered. March 16th I went from Mrs. G.'s room to attend a Mrs. H., who sickened, and died 21st.
Page 588 - I would not feel as if I were doing justice to the community if I did not distinctly state that I consider it, when judiciously administered, more generally suitable and' more effectually remedial than any other medicine yet proposed.
Page 558 - Warrington stated, that a few days after assisting at an autopsy of puerperal peritonitis, in which he laded out the contents of the abdominal cavity with his hands, he was called upon to deliver three women in rapid succession. All of these women were attacked with different forms of what is commonly called puerperal fever.