The Theory and practice of medicine

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W. Wood & Company, 1893 - 821 pagina's

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Pagina 234 - Vaccinae, A Disease Discovered in Some of the Western Counties of England. Particularly Gloucestershire, and Known by the Name of the Cow Pox...
Pagina 625 - ... in different individuals, and in the same individual at different periods of a single attack.
Pagina 230 - I have found to be, that the measles are red, and appear only on the surface of the skin, without rising above it, while the smallpox consists of round eminences. When these eminences appear, fix your attention on them, and if you are in doubt as to the disease, do not express any opinion about it for a day or two; but when there are no eminences, you must not give your opinion that the disease is the smallpox.
Pagina 32 - Probably upon a point involving such important consequences to this community, you will not pretend to be judges better qualified to decide, than those learned men who have devoted a large part of their lives to the study of the law and have been selected by their fellow citizens to make the laws, or those other wise men whom the Supreme Executive have appointed to hold judicial offices on account of their eminent learning and undoubted integrity, all of whom have declared the Statute to be valid,...
Pagina 627 - ... salad or a light vegetable, a little fish (cooked without fat), if desired, one ounce of bread or farinaceous pudding (never more than three ounces), three to six ounces of fruit, fresh preferred, for dessert. It is desirable at this meal to avoid taking fluids, but in hot weather or in the absence of fruit, six to eight ounces of light wine may be taken Afternoon.
Pagina 627 - Noon. — 3 to 4 oz. of soup, 7 to 8 oz. of roast or boiled beef, veal, game, or not too fat poultry, salad or a light vegetable, a little fish (cooked without fat, if desired), 1 oz.
Pagina 457 - French writers have a controversy whether the cirrhosis or yellow degeneration of the liver be a new formation, or a hypertrophia of the yellow substance, which they suppose to constitute a part of the structure of the liver in its healthy state. No good can arise from such discussions, as it is impossible to decide them.
Pagina 234 - On that day, matter was taken from the hand of Sarah Nelmes, who had been infected by her master's cows, and inserted by two superficial incisions into the arms of James Phipps, a healthy boy of about eight years old. He went through the disease apparently in a regular and satisfactory manner; but the most agitating part of the trial still remained to be performed.
Pagina 138 - This period is made more distinctly memorable by the discovery of auscultation as a means of diagnosis. It was the genius of Laennec in the discovery of auscultation which first rendered possible a diagnosis of the disease in life. The fourth period was introduced late in the last half of the nineteenth century, with the inoculation experiments of...
Pagina 46 - ... born alive. The orifice of the vagina is situated at the junction of the first and second quarters of the body.

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