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New Sydenham Society, 1861 - 329 pages
 

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Page 22 - The method which 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...
Page 1 - The existence of this swelling may often be ascertained by a careful examination with the fingers, and a view of the parts may sometimes be obtained by means of a speculum, — such a glass as is used by dentists on a long stalk previously dipped in hot water, introduced with its reflecting surface downwards and carried well into the fauces.
Page 153 - If, as from the nature of the case seldom occurs, the inflammation and affection of the pia mater has not extended to this hemisphere, if the gray matter under the cerebral convolutions has here continued perfectly sound, there is no reason why this remaining hemisphere should not be able to act without impediment in the exercise of those functions which are necessary to our mental powers, just as one eye sees as sharply though the other be lost. But where the gray matter is injured in both hemispheres...
Page 17 - ... 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 experiment 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 187 - In statistics, the square root of the arithmetic mean of the squares of the deviations of the various items from the arithmetic mean of the whole.
Page 37 - As soon as we wish to utter a sound, the two arytenoid cartilages raise themselves in the fold of mucous membrane which covers them, and approach one another with surprising mobility. This movement effects the approximation of the vocal cords, and consequently the contraction of the glottis (fig.
Page 41 - Thyroidis angulo innectitur, inde sensim producta paulum in posteriora inclinatur , atque acuta ea, ac prominente interiore parte, quae velut in oblongam aciem componitur , ita glottidi imminet , ut pro diverso hujusce applicationis modo, diversimode spiritus e glottidis arcto erumpens diremptus , in causa potissimum est cur ex eo primum sonorum diversitas habeatur.
Page 170 - ... pulmonary tuberculosis, by dividing the ganglia of the pneumogastric in rabbits, Van der Kolk very significantly observes : " Since, as experience has taught me, we so often see pulmonary consumption occur in families, some members of which are affected with insanity, so that I have often seen that children who were spared from insanity, were the victims of phthisis, and that the two diseases frequently alternate with one another, or coexist, the question has often suggested itself to me, whether...
Page 42 - The superior vocal cords approach the inferior so as to obliterate the ventricles of Morgagni, at the same time they also meet in the median line.

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