British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, 18. köideJ. Churchill., 1856 |
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Page 63 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Page i - Professor Owen's Lectures on the Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of the Vertebrate Animals, delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1844 and 1846.
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Page 521 - ... intestines and their contents, and in the lungs, liver, kidneys, blood, urine, heart, and even in serum effused into cavities, if such be present. (Absolute.) 4. That, consequently, the detection of antimony in vomited or purged matters, in the stomach or the contents of the stomach, or in the intestines or in their contents, can no longer be considered as any judicial scientific proof that the poison was introduced into the system by the alimentary canal at any part, as has been assumed. (Absolute.)...
Page 186 - As an immediate effect of the manifestation of mechanical force, we see, that a part of the muscular substance loses its vital properties, its character of life; that this portion separates from the living part, and loses its capacity of growth and its power of resistance. We find that this change of properties is accompanied by the entrance of a foreign body (oxygen) into the composition of the muscular...
Page 405 - ... perhaps somewhat large, but excessively soft and compressible ; the body wastes, without, however, presenting the dry and shrivelled skin and extreme emaciation usually attendant on protracted malignant disease ; slight pain or uneasiness is from time to time referred to in the...
Page 49 - ... and the best time for giving them is from half an hour to an hour before meals. The different bitters have not precisely the same effect. Calumba has a sedative influence not possessed by the others, and probably on this account has had a wider reputation as a remedy for mere indigestion. Gentian and chiretta (which is of the gentian tribe, and is much employed by practitioners in India) tend to increase the secretion of the liver, or at any rate do not impede its secretion, which quinine and...
Page 400 - ... followed by the complete rectification of the position of the womb. The principle, indeed, upon which I act in the management of these cases amounts pretty much to this; that to the best of my power I take care of the general symptoms, and leave the misplacement to take care of itself.
Page 50 - ... and far more agreeable. The muriated tincture of iron is more astringent than the other preparations, and may be given in conjunction with dilute muriatic acid, in the forms of indigestion suited to this latter medicine, when these exist in states of anaemia.
Page 32 - ... the man's head, face, and shoulders, but over his clothes; and a part of it made its way through his shirt collar, and very much burnt his neck and shoulders : from this moment, he had a violent internal sensation, and imagined that a quantity of the lead hud passed his throat, and got into his stomach.