Medico-chirurgical Transactions, Band 22

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1839
 

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Seite 303 - I am sorry it is not in my power to give you any information on the subject of the Louisiana treaty. My memory is gone and I have no papers on the subject. But surely the "Conjectural note" you mention as annexed to the Convention must still remain annexed and preserved in the Secretary of State's office.
Seite xiv - MD, Professor of the Practice of Physic in the University of Edinburgh. HEAT. By TS TRAILL, MD, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence in the University of Edinburgh. HELMINTHOLOGY. By JAMES WILSON, FRSE HEMP. By TC ARCHER, Author of "Popular Economic Botany,
Seite 153 - ... commences to soften in about forty hours, assuming the colour and consistency of pus, but easily distinguishable from it by microscopic and chemical examination. 2nd. That the purulent-like fluid found in the fibrinous clots of the heart and arteries, and so frequently in the veins, is essentially distinct from pus, and analogous to, if not identical with, softened fibrine. 3rd. That the softening of coagulated fibrine is an elementary pathological condition of frequent occurrence, distinct from...
Seite 210 - I had some time ago under my care, a man affected with hemiplegia of the left side ; the palsy complete, without the least attempt at motion, except under the following circumstances : he was very much affected with yawning, and every time he yawned the paralytic arm was raised up, with a firm steady motion, until it was at right angles with his body (as he lay in bed on his back), the fore-arm a little bent inwards, so that his hand was above his forehead at its gieatest elevation.
Seite 291 - Society, briefly, a few cases of a different character from those above alluded to ; cases of rapid detention of the scrotum with serosity, in which destruction of the cellular tissue and skin can, on the contrary, be arrested only by very early and free incisions. This distention is or is not attended by redness or erythema of the surface ; but there is reason to think, from the suddenness of the accession, and from the appearances on exposing the cellular tissue, that there is no actual inflammation...
Seite 207 - We may conclude that, in cerebral paralysis, the irritability of the muscular fibre becomes augmented, from want of the application of the stimulus of volition; in paralysis arising from disease of the spinal marrow and its nerves, this irritability is diminished, and at length becomes extinct, from its source being cut ofT.
Seite 80 - In some parts absorption had taken place, leaving small cavities in the muscular substance, varying from the size of a pin's head to that of a small pea ; these were all filled with pus.
Seite 347 - MD *The Danger, Irrationality, and Evils of Medical Quackery ; also the causes of its success, the nature of its Machinery, the amount of Government Profits, with Reasons why it should be suppressed, &c., 8vo.
Seite 331 - The Graafian vesicle in the human ovarium is a small spherical pellucid sac, which contains a fluid, the ovum, and the granular substance in which it is imbedded ; the vesicle itself always consists of two distinct coats or membranous layers, which adhere firmly together. The external surface of the Graafian vesicle adheres loosely to the stroma, or proper substance of the ovarium, in which it is imbedded, by soft cellular substance, blood-vessels, and nerves. Soon after impregnation the coats of...
Seite 12 - College of Physicians, I took occasion to state that for some years I had been persuaded of the existence of such a combination, and little attention has hitherto, as far as I know, been paid to the subject, although the combination of this spasmodic disease has been long recognised. In the very excellent ' Syllabus or Outlines of Lectures on the Practice of Medicine...

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