Medical Commentaries, 9. köide

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Page 20 - NEUROSES, all those preternatural affections of sense or motion which are without pyrexia, as a part of the primary disease ; and all those which do not depend upon a topical affection of the organs, but upon a more general affection of the nervous system, and of those powers of the system upon which sense and motion more especially depend.
Page 489 - Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, one of the Surgeons to the Royal Infirmary, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Page 18 - that the power which created all things, "•which gave life to animals, and motion to the " heavenly bodies, continues to aft upon, and to
Page 197 - ... of the patient. And the bowels were next ordered to be emptied, either by clyfter, or (more commonly) by an eccoprotic purgative. After which, a compofition...
Page 397 - During this time, horses and dogs were much affected ; those especially that were well kept. The horses had severe coughs, were hot, forbore eating, and were long in recovering. Not many of them died that I heard of; but several dogs.
Page 20 - I propose to comprehend, under the title of NEUROSES, all those preternatural affections of sense or motion which are without pyrexia, as a part of the primary disease...
Page 397 - If those physicians in the country, into whose hands this essay may come, will be so obliging as to mention the time when this epidemic made its appearance in their neighbourhood, and wherein it differed from the preceding sketch, either...
Page 479 - University, 1874-84 ; Professor of Clinical Medicine. University of Pennsylvania, 1884-89 ; Dean of the Medical Faculty, 1898-99 ; Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine...
Page 458 - An Account of the Life, Writings, and Character of the late Dr Alexander Monro, Secundus, delivered at the Harveian Oration, at Edinburgh, for the year 1818, by Andrew Duncan, sen.
Page 7 - Monro is led to conclude, that a fmall portion only of the brain, efpecially of the human, is elongated in order to form the nerves and fpinal marrow...

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