The Western Homoeopathic Observer, Volume 3

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H.C.G. Luyties, 1866

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Pagina 6 - It excites and directs salutary crises in such a manner that the physician may render himself master of them ; by its means he knows the state of health of each individual, and judges with certainty of the origin, the nature and the progress of the...
Pagina 66 - You are right. I did tell you that I would report to the General Board of Health the opinion I had formed of the manner the poor Cholera patients were cared for in your hospital, and the success of your treatment; but finding...
Pagina 66 - I must therefore have seen some cogent reason there, the first day I went, to come away so favourably disposed as to advise a friend to send a subscription to your charitable fund, and I need not tell you that I have taken some pains to make myself acquainted with the rise, progress, and medical treatment of cholera, and that I claim for...
Pagina 66 - I went, to come away so favourably disposed as to advise a friend to send a subscription to your charitable fund, and I need not tell you that I have taken some pains to make myself acquainted with the rise, progress, and medical treatment of cholera, and that I claim for myself some right to be able to recognise the disease, and to know something of what the...
Pagina 131 - The rhigoline is more convenient, and more easily controlled, than the freezing mixtures hitherto employed. Being quick in its action, inexpensive, and comparatively odorless, it will supersede general or local anaesthesia by ether or chloroform, for small operations, and in private houses.
Pagina 130 - London, had produced a useful anaesthesia by freezing through the agency of ether vapor, reducing the temperature to 6° below zero, F., it occurred to me that a very volatile product of petroleum might be more sure to congeal the tissues, besides being far less expensive, than ether. Mr. Merrill having, at my request, manufactured a liquid of which the boiling point was tO0 F., it proved that the mercury was easily depressed by this agent to 19° below zero, and that the skin could be with certainty...
Pagina 180 - Twas when I, fresh from halls of learning, Believed myself a great receptacle of knowledge, As most young men, whose eager minds are burning With lore, all medical, received at college; I thought that I could all diseases cure, Could dish out medicines for aches and ills, That no one need a single pang endure, If I stood by with homoeopathic pills. It was in Philadelphia — city fair, I lectured once and practiced...
Pagina 101 - ... the groove between the internal condyle of the Humerus and the olecranon process of the Ulna. It is necessary to preserve this nerve from injury, as I shall show you as the operation is proceeded with.
Pagina 203 - Taking Cold (the Cause of half our Diseases)-: Its Nature, Causes, Prevention and Cure; its frequency as a Cause of other Disease, and the Diseases of which it is the Cause, with their Diagnosis and Treatment.
Pagina 6 - There are observed, particularly in the human body, properties analogous to those of the magnet; and in it are discerned poles equally different and opposite. The action and the virtues of animal magnetism may be communicated from one body to other bodies, animate and inanimate. This action takes place at a remote distance, without the aid of any intermediate body; it is increased, reflected by mirrors ; communicated, propagated, augmented by sound ; its virtues may be accumulated, concentrated,...

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