Transactions of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland: Vol. I-XXXVI and XXXVII. ...

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Page 41 - Alcina from the crown of her head to the soles of her feet, that notwithstanding the grace, the facility, the soft elegance of his verse, Alcina is not beautiful.
Page 423 - We can see nothing then to warrant the conclusion that in this country vaccination might safely be abandoned, and replaced by a system of isolation.
Page 421 - ... (6) that re-vaccination restores the protection which lapse of time has diminished, but the evidence shows that this protection again diminishes, and that, to ensure the highest degree of protection which vaccination can give, the operation should be at intervals repeated...
Page 414 - Should it be asked whether this investigation is a matter of mere curiosity, or whether it tends to any beneficial purpose, I should answer that, notwithstanding the happy effects of inoculation, with all the improvements which the practice has received since its first introduction into this country, it not very unfrequently produces deformity of the skin, and sometimes, under the best management, proves fatal.
Page 151 - ... continue; but the moment they stand still, all this uneasiness vanishes. In all other respects, the patients are, at the beginning of this disorder, perfectly well, and in particular have no shortness of breath from which it is totally different.
Page 420 - ... 5. That its power to modify the character of the disease is also greatest in the period in which its power to protect from attack is greatest, but that its power thus to modify the disease does not diminish as rapidly as its protective influence against attacks, and its efficacy during the later periods of life to modify the disease is still very considerable.
Page 150 - But there is a disorder of the breast marked with strong and peculiar symptoms, considerable for the kind of danger belonging to it, and not extremely rare, which deserves to be mentioned more at length. The seat of it, and sense of strangling, and anxiety with which it is attended, may make it not improperly be called angina pectoris.
Page 151 - ... left side, and oblige them to rise up out of their beds. In some inveterate cases it has been brought on by the motion of a horse, or a carriage, and even by swallowing, coughing, going to stool, or speaking, or any disturbance of mind.
Page 423 - Vaccination in reducing the prevalence of, and mortality from, small-pox. ' 2. What means, other than Vaccination, can be used for diminishing the prevalence of small-pox, and how far such means could be relied on in place of Vaccination.
Page 132 - It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to use or to engage in the sale of any bottle, mechanism, or other device for the artificial feeding or nursing of infants or children under three years of age, that has connected therewith a rubber tube, hose, or similar contrivance.

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