The London Medical and Physical Journal, Band 54J. Souter, 1825 |
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Seite 523 - Sketches of the most prevalent Diseases of India," comprising a treatise on the epidemic cholera of the East ; statistical and topographical reports of the diseases in the different divisions of the Army under the Madras Presidency...
Seite 159 - ... be applied till the ear of the child has been within reach of the operator's finger for at least six hours, has undoubtedly many exceptions.
Seite 361 - There are three creatures, the squirrel, the fieldmouse, and the bird called the nut-hatch (Sitta Europcea), which live much on hazel-nuts ; and yet they open them each in a different way. The first, after rasping off the small end, splits the shell in two with his long fore-teeth, as a man does with his knife...
Seite 41 - His observations are so just and so applicable to the present question, that they are worthy of being quoted: — " *Some nations have fancied that nature did not give a good shape to the head, and thought it would be better to mould it into the form of a sugar-loaf. The Chinese think a woman's foot much handsomer, if squeezed into a third part of its natural size. Some African nations have a like quarrel with the shape of the nose, which they think ought to be laid as flat as possible with the face....
Seite 50 - ... relied on, that there are more animals in the milt of a single cod-fish, than there are men on the whole earth, and that a single grain of sand is larger than four millions of these animals.
Seite 420 - This state of excessive reaction is formed gradually, and consists, at first, in forcible beating of the pulse, of the carotids, and of the heart, accompanied by a sense of throbbing in the head, of palpitation of the heart, and eventually perhaps of beating or throbbing in the scrobiculus cordis, and in the course of the aorta. This state of reaction is augmented occasionally by a turbulent dream, mental agitation, or bodily exertion. At other times it is modified by a temporary faintness or syncope.
Seite 523 - A Practical Treatise on Diabetes: with Observations on the Tabes Diuretica, or Urinary Consumption, especially as it occurs in Children; and on Urinary Fluxes in general. With an Appendix of Dissections and Cases, illustrative of a successful Mode of Treatment ; and a Postscript of Practical Directions for examining the Urine in these Diseases.
Seite 523 - An Introduction to the Use of the Stethoscope, with Its Application to the Diagnosis of Diseases of the Thoracic Viscera, Including the Pathology of these Various Affections.
Seite 355 - ... warm, that the nestlings may all equally partake of the vivifying heat. Thus, the wren, who lays from ten to eighteen eggs, constructs her little edifice with the greatest care, and of the warmest materials ; while the plover and the eagle, whose eggs are so few, that the body may easily cover them, build with little solicitude, and sometimes content themselves with the naked cleft of a rock. And thus, too, in very cold winters in Lapland, the fond waterfowl will occasionally strip the down off...
Seite 356 - When a tree which requires much moisture (says Mr. Knight) has sprung up or been planted in a dry soil, in the vicinity of water, it has been observed that a much larger portion of its roots has been directed towards the water ; and that when a tree of a different species, and which requires a dry soil, has been placed in a similar situation, it has appeared, in the direction given to its roots, to have avoided the water and moist soil."f