A cyclopedia of domestic medicine and surgeryBlackie, 1842 - 692 pages |
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Page 90 - The fruit grows on the boughs like apples ; it is as big as a penny loaf, when wheat is at five shillings the bushel ; it is of a round shape, and hath a thick tough rind. When the fruit is ripe, it is yellow and soft, and the taste is sweet and pleasant.
Page 365 - After several years his reason returned suddenly, and the first question he asked was whether his sons had brought home the beetle and wedges. They, being afraid...
Page 362 - ... from 30 to 40, presents the greatest number of cases. In regard to occupation, sufficient data do not exist to show that there is any decided predominance of cases in any particular employment. Idiocy is either a congenital or an acquired defect of the intellectual faculties, or, as Pinel defines it, an obliteration, more or less absolute, of the functions of the understanding and the affections of the heart. Congenital idiocy may originate from a malformation of the cranium, or of the brain...
Page 366 - Many similar cases are on record. Several years ago a gentleman in Edinburgh who was brought before a jury to be cognosced, defeated every attempt of the opposite counsel to discover any trace of insanity, until a gentleman came into court who ought to have been present at the beginning of the case, but had been accidentally detained. He immediately addressed the patient by asking him what were his latest accounts from the planet Saturn, and speedily elicited proofs of his insanity.
Page 363 - ... complete or partial hebetude of individual faculties, particularly those of association and comparison, producing confusion of thoughts, loss of memory, childishness, a diminution or loss of the powers of volition; it differs from idiocy in being curable. Persons are reduced to this state, because exterior objects make too weak an impression on them ; the sensations are, therefore, feeble, obscure and incomplete ; the patient does not form a correct idea of objects, nor compare, associate or...
Page 210 - As the immediate contact and action of the air are necessary to the burning of every combustible body, so the air, when properly applied, acts with far greater advantage on flame than on the solid and fixed inflammable bodies ; for when air is applied to these last, it can only act on their surface, or the particles of them that are outermost ; whereas, flame being a vapor or elastic fluid, the air, by proper contrivances, can be intimately mixed with it, and made to act on every part of it, external...
Page 208 - ... are most remote from the wick, and where only the combustion is going on, in consequence of communication and contact with the air. At the same time, as the alcohol is totally volatile, it does not leave any fixed matter which, by being accumulated on the wick, might render it foul and fill up its pores. The wick, therefore, continues to imbibe the spirit as freely, after some time, as it did at the first. These are the qualities of alcohol as a fuel.
Page 396 - December's snows" to perspire from a sensation of excessive heat. The practice of laughing at, or scolding a patient of this class, is equally cruel and ineffectual. No one was ever laughed or scolded out of hypochondriasis. It is scarcely likely that we should elevate a person's spirits by insulting his understanding. The malady of the nerves is in general of too obstinate a nature to yield to a sarcasm or a sneer. It would scarcely be more preposterous to think of dissipating a dropsy of the chest,...
Page 226 - It is known enough, how much this plant has been decried, how generally soever it has been received in these maritime northern parts ; and the chief reason, which I believe gave it vogue at first, was the preserving beer upon long sea- voyages : but for common health, I am apt to think the use of heath or broom had been of much more advantage, though none yet invented of so great and general as that of alehoof, which is certainly the greatest cleanser of any plant known among us ; and which in old...
Page 167 - ... adopting a truth which no one has sanctioned, and rejecting an error of which all approve, with the same calmness as if no judgment were opposed to its own...