The Science and Practice of Medicine, Band 1

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Lindsay & Blakiston, 1868 - 1072 Seiten
 

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Seite 635 - Holds such an enmity with blood of man, That, swift as quicksilver, it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body ; And, with a sudden vigour, it doth posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood...
Seite 961 - FRCS ON THE TRANSMISSION FROM PARENT TO OFFSPRING OF SOME FORMS OF DISEASE, AND OF MORBID TAINTS AND TENDENCIES.
Seite 133 - The days of our years are threescore years and ten; And if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, Yet is their strength labour and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Seite 436 - The differences between the morning and the evening temperatures amount, during the fastigium (from the middle of the first to the middle of the second week), rarely to more than 1° Fahr.
Seite 799 - For nightcap, if required, A tumbler of grog — (gin, whisky, or brandy, without sugar) — or a glass or two of claret or sherry.
Seite 231 - It is always to be desired that the people should, as far as possible, know what real precautions they can take against the disease which threatens them, what vigilance is needful with regard to its early symptoms, and what (if any) special arrangements have been made for giving medical assistance within the district. For the purpose of such information printed hand-bills or placards may usefully be employed, and in cases where danger is great...
Seite 435 - ... by the end of the second week, or the beginning of the third, the normal temperature is again attained.
Seite 64 - ... powers of absorption of the surrounding parts. Pathology. — As it is not possible clearly to define the limits of natural processes, it is not possible to give a correct definition of inflammation. It is a process the most important of all morbid states ; and a knowledge of its phenomena, the laws which regulate its course, and the relations which its several events bear to each other, have been always considered as " the keystone to medical and surgical science," and the " pivot upon which...
Seite 199 - diseases of this class distinguish one country from another, — one year from another; they have formed epochs in chronology; and, as Niebuhr has shown, have influenced not only the fall of cities, such as Athens and Florence, but of empires; they decimate armies, disable fleets; they take the lives of criminals that justice has not condemned ; they redouble the dangers of crowded hospitals; they infest the habitations of the poor, and strike the...
Seite 228 - Wherever there is accumulation, stink, or soakage of house refuse, or of other decaying animal or vegetable matter, the nuisance should as promptly as possible be abated, and precaution should be taken not to let it recur. Especially...

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