The Study of Medicine, Band 1

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Wells and Lilly, 1823 - 494 Seiten
 

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Seite 77 - Thou'dst meet the bear i' the mouth. When the mind's free The body's delicate; the tempest in my mind Doth from my senses take all feeling else Save what beats there.
Seite 54 - This is one of the most common, as well as one of the most important machine tools, and one which can be made to serve for a wide variety of operations.
Seite 295 - This is an individual of the thrush kind ; its own natural note is delightfully musical and solemn; but beyond this it possesses an instinctive talent of imitating the note of every other kind of singing bird, and even the voice of every bird of prey so exactly, as to deceive the very kinds it attempts to mock. It is moreover playful enough to find amusement in the deception; and takes a pleasure in decoying smaller birds near it by mimicking...
Seite 229 - The peritonaeal. muscular, and internal coats are much thicker and harder than in a natural state. The muscular too is subdivided by membranous septa, and the internal coat is sometimes formed into hard irregular folds. It often happens that the surface of the inner membrane is ulcerated, producing cancer. Every vestige of the natural structure is occasionally lost, and the gut appears changed into a gristly substance.
Seite 382 - I have commonly ordered an ounce for one dish, which is to be repeated fresh after the interval of a quarter or half an hour, and which I direct to be taken without milk or sugar.
Seite 92 - ... with a drowsiness, which gradually increased to a complete stupor and insensibility : and not long after he was found fallen from his chair lying on the floor of his chamber in the state mentioned. Being laid a-bed, he fell asleep : but waking a little from time to time he was quite delirious : and he thus continued alternately sleeping and delirious for several hours.
Seite 13 - Sir Everard Home has given an example of this in a child, who, however, did not live long, but who seems rather to have died of a marasmus than of any intestinal affection. And from this fact, as well as from various others, this indefatigable physiologist conceives one of the offices of the bile to be, that of converting mucus or the refuse matter of the chyle, as it passes into the colon, into fat, which is absorbed and diffused over the system to promote its growth.
Seite 22 - ... complicated, and to which the name of " tooth fever " is often applied. Dr Mason Good was first to point out that nature, allwise and forethoughtful, has made a provision for the moderation of the dentition process, by which much severity of symptom is saved. " The pressure of the pushing teeth is not uniformly exerted through the whole course of teething, but is divided into distinct periods or stages, as though the ^vital or instinctive principle, which is what we mean by nature, becomes exhausted...
Seite 257 - This constitutes the diluted acid, or diluted aqua regia. The acid bath is to consist of three ounces of this diluted acid to every gallon of water. It should, however, be observed by those who are inclined to form this mixture extemporaneously at their own houses, that, if either of the acids be...
Seite 32 - ... whole earthy matter of the bones has been taken into the constitution. From these experiments it would appear, that the teeth are to be considered as extraneous bodies, with respect to a circulation through their substance ; but they have most certainly a living principle, by which means they make part of the body, and are capable of uniting with any part of a living body...

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