The Lancet, Volume 1J. Onwhyn, 1870 |
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Pagina 156 - There is, however, one point more that I cannot but advert to — namely, the influence of this mode of treatment upon the general healthiness of an hospital- Previously to its introduction, the two large wards in which most of my cases of accident and of operation are treated, were...
Pagina 156 - It was interesting, though melancholy, to observe that whenever all or nearly all the beds contained cases with open sores, these grievous complications were pretty sure to show themselves; so that I came to welcome simple fractures, though in themselves of little interest either for myself or the students, because their presence diminished the proportion of open sores among the patients.
Pagina 4 - A few inches below the surface of the ground, on a level with the floors of the two lowest male accident wards, with only the basement area, four feet wide, intervening, was found the uppermost tier of a multitude of coffins, which had been placed there at the time of the cholera epidemic of 1849, the corpses having undergone so little change in the interval that the clothes they had on at the time of their hurried burial were plainly distinguishable.
Pagina 47 - WINTER AND SPRING ON THE SHORES OF THE MEDITERRANEAN : OR, THE RIVIERA, MENTONE, ITALY, CORSICA, SICILY, ALGERIA, SPAIN, AND BIARRITZ, AS WINTER CLIMATES. Fourth Edition, with numerous Plates, Maps, and Wood Engravings. Post 8vo., 12s. III. ON THE TREATMENT OF PULMONARY CONSUMPTION BY HYGIENE, CLIMATE, AND MEDICINE.
Pagina 4 - THE antiseptic system of treatment has now been in operation sufficiently long to enable us to form a fair estimate of its influence upon the salubrity of a hospital. Its effects upon the wards lately under my care in the Glasgow Royal Infirmary were in the highest degree beneficial, converting them from some of the most unhealthy in the kingdom into models of healthiness.
Pagina 197 - F. LE GROS CLARK, FRCS LECTURES ON THE PRINCIPLES OF SURGICAL DIAGNOSIS : ESPECIALLY IN RELATION TO SHOCK AND VISCERAL LESIONS Delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons. 8vo., 10s.
Pagina 298 - A brewer's servant, a man of middle age and robust frame, suffered much agony for several days from a thecal abscess, occasioned by a splinter of wood penetrating beneath the nail of the thumb. A few seconds after the matter was discharged by a deep incision he raised himself by a convulsive effort from his bed and instantly expired. (See Travers " On Constitutional Irritation,
Pagina 5 - ... which the antiseptic system had been fairly in operation in my wards, not a single case of pyaemia, erysipelas, or hospital gangrene had occurred in them ; and this, be it remembered, not only in the presence of conditions likely to be pernicious, but at a time when the nnhealthiness of other ports of the same building was attracting the serious and anxious attention of the managers.
Pagina 121 - So we can change chemical force into the electric current, or the current into chemical force. The beautiful experiments of Seebeck and Peltier show the convertibility of heat and electricity ; and others by Oersted and myself show the convertibility of electricity and magnetism. But in no case, not even in those of the Gymnotus and Torpedo, is there a pure creation or a production of power without a corresponding exhaustion of something to supply it.
Pagina 271 - There was so great a concourse of people with their children to be touched for the Evil, that six or seven were crushed to death by pressing at the chirurgeon's door for tickets.