The Old Vegetable Neurotics: Hemlock, Opium, Belladonna and Henbane; Their Physiological Action and Therapeutical Use, Alone and in Combination; Being the Gulstonian Lectures of 1868, Extended and Including a Complete Examination of the Active Constituents of OpiumMacmillan, 1869 - 355 pages |
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... continued lively , and eating his food as usual , until twenty - five minutes after the dose , when he was observed to remain standing stockstill , with the ears fallen , and the head and neck pendent , the upper eyelids swollen and ...
... continued lively , and eating his food as usual , until twenty - five minutes after the dose , when he was observed to remain standing stockstill , with the ears fallen , and the head and neck pendent , the upper eyelids swollen and ...
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... continued throughout the night , and on putting his hands into cold water on rising ( at 8.30 A.M. ) the right hand was suddenly clenched and flexed at right angles to the forearm , which was simultaneously bent at an acute angle with ...
... continued throughout the night , and on putting his hands into cold water on rising ( at 8.30 A.M. ) the right hand was suddenly clenched and flexed at right angles to the forearm , which was simultaneously bent at an acute angle with ...
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... continued in constant play . She steadily improved , and on the thirty - fourth day was able to dress herself . On the sixtieth day she was quite well , excepting an occasional slight twitch of the angles of the mouth ; she was able to ...
... continued in constant play . She steadily improved , and on the thirty - fourth day was able to dress herself . On the sixtieth day she was quite well , excepting an occasional slight twitch of the angles of the mouth ; she was able to ...
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... continued for forty minutes . She continued to walk about during the whole of the time , and neither the pulse nor pupils under- went any change during the action of the medicine . But its effect upon the choreic movements was very ...
... continued for forty minutes . She continued to walk about during the whole of the time , and neither the pulse nor pupils under- went any change during the action of the medicine . But its effect upon the choreic movements was very ...
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... continued this dose for four weeks more . At the end of the second week she was so much improved that she was able to pin her shawl , write her name legibly , carry a saucer of fluid steadily to her mouth with the right hand , and there ...
... continued this dose for four weeks more . At the end of the second week she was so much improved that she was able to pin her shawl , write her name legibly , carry a saucer of fluid steadily to her mouth with the right hand , and there ...
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