Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, Band 74

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A. and C. Black, 1850
 

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Seite 209 - Is the employment of Alcoholic Liquors necessary in the practice of Medicine? If so, in what diseases, or in what forms and stages of disease, is the use of them necessary or beneficial ? 1 . Each Essay must be accompanied by a sealed envelope, containing the real name and address of the author, and superscribed with a name or motto, similar to that attached to the Essay ; only the envelope of the successful Candidate to be opened by the adjudicators. 2. It is desired (but this is not an essential...
Seite 421 - ... were furnished and relieved every two hours, night and day, to guard the building from intrusion. At the same time, he ordered one of the principal officers of his court to visit the place occasionally, and to report the result of his inspection to him, while he himself or his minister, kept the seal which closed the hole of the padlock, and the latter received the reports of the officers on guard morning and evening.
Seite 173 - In a week he again views that terra-firma which he had quitted with regret, and which in his sufferings he would have given half that he possessed to regain. When he lands upon the island, what a change ! Winter has become summer ; the naked trees which he left are exchanged for the...
Seite 144 - Edited by JAMES SHERIDAN KNOWLES ; to which are attached a Review of the State of Agriculture and of the Tenure of Land, by GEORGE PEACOCK, DD, FRS ; and an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Island, and Guide to Visitors, by JOHN DRIvER, Consul for Greece, Madeira.
Seite 422 - Singh taking his right and left leg, to aid by friction in restoring them to their proper action, during which time the servant placed a hot wheaten cake, about an inch thick, on the top of the head — a process, which he twice or thrice repeated.
Seite 421 - Lahore, with an open verandah, all round, having an enclosed room in the centre. On arriving there, Runjeet Singh, who was attended on the occasion by the whole of his Court, dismounting from his elephant, asked me to join him in examining the building to satisfy himself that it was closed as he had left it. We did so ; there had been a door on each of the four sides of the room, three of which were perfectly closed with brick and mortar, the fourth had a strong door, which was also closed with mud...
Seite 441 - The practice which has appeared to me to be on the whole the best, is the following : — An opening having been made with an abscess lancet, the limb may be wrapped up in a flannel wrung out of hot water, and this may be continued as long as the matter continues to flow of itself. In...
Seite 431 - ... to my informant, was hearing a little sister, who came into the room where she was laid out for dead, exulting in the prospect, in consequence of her death, of getting possession of a necklace of the deceased. " In like manner, in cases of catalepsy, patients have been known to be alive, and still to remain for a great length of time in a state of insensibility and torpor of all the vital functions to an alarming degree, and to subsist for considerable periods of time without food. This was strikingly...

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