The Medico-chirurgical Review and Journal of Practical Medicine, Volume 21

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Richard & George S. Wood, 1834

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Pagina 286 - The Principles of Physiology, applied to the Preservation of Health, and to the Improvement of Physical and Mental Education.
Pagina 111 - And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast.
Pagina 344 - There is always exceeding tenderness ; connected with which, however, we may observe this remarkable circumstance, that gently touching or pinching the integuments, in such a way as that the pressure cannot affect the deep-seated parts, will often be productive of much more pain than the handling of the limb in a more rude and careless manner.
Pagina 84 - A History of Egyptian Mummies, and an Account of the Worship and Embalming of the Sacred Animals...
Pagina 110 - Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, While the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, When thou shall say, I have no pleasure in them...
Pagina 77 - Their town was laid out in three streets, two on one side and one on the other side of the river.
Pagina 169 - From neglecting proper intervals of rest, the vascular excitement of the brain, which always accompanies activity of mind, has never time to subside, and a restless irritability of temper and disposition comes on, attended with sleeplessness and anxiety, for which no external cause can be assigned. The symptoms gradually become aggravated, the digestive functions give way, nutrition is impaired, and a sense of wretchedness is constantly present, which often leads to attempts at suicide. While all...
Pagina 156 - If a man be tired of the slow lingering progress of consumption, let him repair to Naples ; and the denouement will be much more rapid. The sirocco wind, which has been blowing for six days, continues with the same violence. The effects of this, south-east blast, fraught with all the plagues of the deserts of Africa, are immediately felt in that leaden oppressive dejection of spirits, which is the most intolerable of diseases.
Pagina 198 - ... it lay upon the front of the nerve, the separated fibres of which, as they ran over its surface, formed a series of curved lines, arranged like the divisions of a melon.
Pagina 444 - November, when it was proposed to ascertain whether she could read with her eyes closed. She was seated in a corner of the room, the lights were placed at a distance from her, and so screened as to leave her in almost entire darkness. In this situation, she read with ease a great number of cards which were presented to her, some of which were written with a pencil, and so obscurely, that in a faint light no trace could be discerned by common eyes. She told the reporter the date of coins, even when...

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