The Science and practice of medicine v. 1, Band 1

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C. Griffin and Company, 1866
 

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Seite 663 - 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." So wrote our greatest English poet
Seite 272 - must be many yards around the patient's person : indeed, with every precaution, there is great difficulty in preventing it spreading from ward to ward in large hospitals during the prevalence of the disease. " There is no contagion so strong and sure as that of small-pox : none that operates at so great a distance
Seite 207 - 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
Seite 767 - boiled fish, bacon, or cold meat of any kind (except pork), a large cup of tea (without milk or sugar), and one ounce of dry toast. Dinner—Five or six ounces of any fish (except salmon or eels), any meat (except pork), any vegetables (except potatoes or rice), one
Seite 760 - chair are placed a copper bath, containing water, and a metallic plate, on which is placed from one to three drachms of the bisulphuret of mercury, or the same quantity of the grey oxide, or the binoxide of this metal. From five to thirty
Seite 247 - of the skin. The caution which is necessary with regard to such matters must of course extend to whatever may be imbued with them ; so that bedding, clothing, towels, and other articles which have been in use by the sick, do not become sources of mischief, either in the house to which they belong,
Seite 767 - —Two or three ounces of fresh fruit, or a rusk or two, and a cup of tea without milk or sugar. The tea may be very much enjoyed when taken in the Russian fashion—».
Seite 116 - that death takes the glow and hue of life, and life the gaunt and grisly form of death." The forms of fever now noticed, as phenomena which may be associated with the inflammatory process, are
Seite 53 - evening till the morning, it is a sign that the patient is getting or will get worse. When the temperature begins to fall from the evening to the morning, it is a sure sign of improvement; on the other hand, a rise of temperature from the evening till the morning is a sign
Seite 769 - endeavours to maintain it, every such endeavour will represent additional pangs of hunger. The home, too, will be where shelter can be cheapest bought,—in quarters where commonly there is least fruit of sanitary supervision, least drainage, least scavenging, least suppression of public nuisances, least, or worst, water supply, and, if in town, least light

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