Canada Lancet, Volume 12Lancet Publishing Company, 1880 - Medicine |
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... performed under the im- mother , or of damage to the maternal structures , pression that there was fluid in the pericardial sac , from a protracted first stage of labor . Of course , and this in the hands of men whose position is it is ...
... performed under the im- mother , or of damage to the maternal structures , pression that there was fluid in the pericardial sac , from a protracted first stage of labor . Of course , and this in the hands of men whose position is it is ...
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... performing the operation , a moderately - large aspirating needle is preferable to a small one , since inflammatory effusion in the pericardium is apt to contain shreds of lymph which would clog a sinail needle . It is difficult to ...
... performing the operation , a moderately - large aspirating needle is preferable to a small one , since inflammatory effusion in the pericardium is apt to contain shreds of lymph which would clog a sinail needle . It is difficult to ...
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... performed about ten days before , and the patient was convalescent . She was nearly forty years old , and had a tumor about the size of an egg in the body of the uterus . A bit of it was scraped out with the curette , submitted to the ...
... performed about ten days before , and the patient was convalescent . She was nearly forty years old , and had a tumor about the size of an egg in the body of the uterus . A bit of it was scraped out with the curette , submitted to the ...
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... performed laparotomy in the usual manner . Having made an incision five and three quarter inches long in the abdominal walls , and evacuated a large amount of ascitic fluid , I was able to insert the hand and examine the tumor ...
... performed laparotomy in the usual manner . Having made an incision five and three quarter inches long in the abdominal walls , and evacuated a large amount of ascitic fluid , I was able to insert the hand and examine the tumor ...
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... performed and the blood more readily oxygenated , the evidently failing forces of the patient would rally , but this did not prove the case . The hypodermic injection of whisky having been found to be of no service in overcoming the ex ...
... performed and the blood more readily oxygenated , the evidently failing forces of the patient would rally , but this did not prove the case . The hypodermic injection of whisky having been found to be of no service in overcoming the ex ...
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Page 257 - Those obligations are the more deep and enduring, because there is no tribunal other than his own conscience to adjudge penalties for carelessness or neglect. Physicians should, therefore, minister to the sick with due impressions of the importance of their office ; reflecting that the ease, the health...
Page 260 - ... which it may be thought proper to express. But no statement or discussion of it should take place before the patient or his friends, except in the presence of all the...
Page 259 - It is derogatory to the dignity of the profession to resort to public advertisements, or private cards, or handbills, inviting the attention of individuals affected with particular diseases...
Page 259 - It is also reprehensible for physicians to give certificates attesting the efficacy of patent or secret medicines, or in any way to promote the use of them.
Page 264 - Obligations of the public to physicians. § 1. The benefits accruing to the public, directly and indirectly, from the active and unwearied beneficence of the profession, are so numerous and important, that physicians are justly entitled to the utmost consideration and respect from the community. The public ought likewise to entertain a just appreciation of medical qualifications; to make a proper discrimination between true science and the assumptions of ignorance and empiricism...
Page 263 - Physicians. § 1. Diversity of opinion, and opposition of interest, may, in the medical, as in other professions, sometimes occasion controversy and even contention. Whenever such cases unfortunately occur, and cannot be immediately terminated, they should be referred to the arbitration of a sufficient number of physicians, or a court-medical.
Page 261 - ... pursued. This is a circumstance much to be deplored, and should always be avoided, if possible, by mutual concessions, as far as they can be justified by a conscientious regard for the dictates of judgment. But, in the event of its occurrence, a third physician should, if practicable, be called to act as umpire; and, if circumstances prevent the adoption of this course, it must be left to the patient to select the physician in whom he is most willing to confide.
Page 263 - Medical men should also be always ready, when called on by the legally constituted authorities, to enlighten coroners' inquests, and courts of justice, on subjects strictly medical — such as involve questions relating to sanity, legitimacy, murder by...
Page 262 - A physician, in his intercourse with a patient under the care of another practitioner, should observe the strictest caution and reserve.
Page 262 - ... member of the faculty in the same illness, except in cases of sudden emergency, or in consultation with the physician previously in attendance, or when the latter has relinquished the case or been regularly notified that his services are no longer desired. Under such circumstances no unjust and illiberal insinuations should be thrown out in relation to the conduct or practice previously pursued, which should be justified as far as candor and regard for truth and probity will permit...