The Medical Current, Volume 7Eugene F. Starke, Wilson A. Smith, Wesley A. Dunn Dunn & Smith, 1891 - Medicine |
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Page 51 - A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding ; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant ; accommodates itself to the meanest capacities ; silences the loud and clamorous, and brings over the most obstinate and inflexible.
Page 289 - To me the ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere presence. Such a doctor is possible, but the greater number of them lack the higher and inner life, they know nothing of the transcendent laboratories of nature; they seem to me superficial, profane, strangers to divine things, destitute of intuition and sympathy. The model doctor should be at once a genius,...
Page 466 - In all pathological conditions, surgical or medical, which linger persistently in spite of all efforts at removal, from the delicate derangements of brain- substance that induce insanity, and the various forms of neurasthenia, to the great variety of morbid changes repeatedly found in the coarser structures of the body, there will invariably be found more or less irritation of the rectum, or the orifices of the sexual system, or of both.
Page 24 - Effects. — In its action it resembles chloral in quickness of effect and naturalness of the sleep produced. No marked depressing influence was exerted upon the pulse or respiration rate, though it was noticed that the breathing became slower and the pulse slower and fuller as in natural repose. No disagreeable after effects.
Page 119 - When you reflect that your own father had to take such medicines as the above, and that you would be taking them to-day yourself but for the introduction of...
Page 23 - Specimens of this new hypnotic having, through the courtesy of Messrs. Eisner & Mendelson Co., been placed in my hands for examination and trial, I will here very briefly communicate some of the results thus far obtained, reserving my final judgment upon the drug until experience has been more extended. Physical Characters. — Somnal is a colorless liquid, resembling chloroform in its appearance and behavior when •Zeitschrift des Apothekers-Vereins, Nov., 1889.
Page 507 - But those, Forthwith they are peopled for man by new foes ! The stars keep their secrets, the earth hides her own, And bold must the man be that braves the Unknown ! Not a truth has to art or to science been given, But brows have ached for it, and souls toiled and striven ; And many have striven, and many have failed, And many died, slain by the truth they assailed.