The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Band 56

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Cupples, Upham & Company, 1857
 

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Seite 68 - ... this number. The faculty of every regularly constituted medical college or chartered school of medicine, shall have the privilege of sending two delegates. The professional staff of every chartered or municipal hospital containing a hundred inmates or more, shall have the privilege of sending two delegates ; and every other permanently organized medical institution of good standing shall have the privilege of sending one delegate.
Seite 24 - In fact, as each part presents itself, it is cut off and eaten while yet warm and quivering. In this state it is considered, and justly so, to be very superior in taste to what it is when cold. Raw meat, if kept a little time, gets tough ; whereas, if eaten fresh and warm, it is far tenderer than the most tender joint that has been hung a week in England. The taste is perhaps...
Seite 366 - The following resolutions were offered and adopted : By Dr. Pitcher— Resolved, That the members of this Association, as recipients of the cordial, generous, and elegant hospitalities extended to them by the profession and the citizens of Nashville, in placing on record an expression of thanks for the social amenities they have enjoyed during its tenth annual session, wish also to leave behind them the assurance, that the recollection of their short sojourn in Tennessee, will be cherished as dearly...
Seite 35 - ... such a case, it is surely not less essential to the progress of science and our art to remove error than to establish truth. Warmth is so obviously a stimulus, and a stimulus is so apparently required for a patient taken out of the cold water in a state of asphyxia, that in recommending the warm bath we seem to be addressing ourselves to the common sense of mankind, and it was a step in advance to entertain a doubt on the subject. But when we begin to experiment — when we learn that an animal...
Seite 363 - Now, Mr. Muff," says the gentleman to one of his class, handing him a bottle of something which appears like specimens of a chestnut colt's coat after he had been clipped ; "what's that, sir?" " That's cow-itch, sir,
Seite 290 - ... bit of the gland is left, and this has been observed to escape disease. But in scirrhous affections, where the gland undergoes a gradual induration, the vessels are frequently pushed backward, as they were in one or two of the cases here given. The above observation is confirmed by my friend and colleague at the Hospital, Dr. Gay, who made similar dissections on the dead body to ascertain this point. In a case mentioned by Dr. JC Warren the carotid was cut at the end of the operation, and the...
Seite 427 - The Massachusetts Medical Society is authorized, by a donation from one of its members, to offer the sum of one hundred dollars for the best dissertation adjudged worthy of a prize on the following theme, viz: "To what affections of the lungs does bronchitis give origin ?" The above is open to physicians of every country.
Seite 272 - You may administer this drug in very minute quantities for some time, without producing any sensible effect ; but when the quantity has accumulated in the system up to a certain point, then the smallest increase of dose will immediately give rise to the peculiar convulsive phenomena.
Seite 212 - ... The belief in the reality of the vision was never for an instant absent ; it pervaded the whole being, and was often the point on which the thoughts turned seemingly for a long time. The painful attempt to regulate these disturbed states of consciousness, was soon given up, and half involuntarily, half by a species of moral compulsion, the whole psychical nature surrendered itself without further struggle, to the fullest and most complete belief in the actual existence of a thousand hallucinations....
Seite 366 - These diseases are small-pox, and, under certain circumstances, typhus fever, cholera, and yellow fever. "3. When the latter diseases are introduced in this manner, their action is limited to individuals coming within their immediate influence, and cannot become epidemic, unless there exist in the community the circumstances which are calculated to produce such disease independent of the importation.

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