Transactions of the Canada Medical Association ... 10th Annual Meeting ...1877 - 224 pages |
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Page 20 - It is directly concerned with the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, the materials upon which we expend our labor, and the things which we buy and sell.
Page 91 - ... to establish a defense on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved, that, at the time of committing the act, the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing ; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.
Page 7 - Dr. THAYER, seconded by Dr. LAROCQUE, gave notice that he •would move, at the next meeting of the Association, " That application be made to the Local Governments to keep three or four heifers in a convenient place, for the purpose of supplying medical men with vaccine virus derived directly from the cow.
Page 38 - ... whosoever, with intent to procure the miscarriage of any woman, whether she be or be not with child, shall unlawfully administer to her, or cause to be taken by her, any poison or other noxious thine, or shall unlawfully use auy instrument, or other means whatsoever, with the like intent, shall be guilty of felony...
Page 130 - ... being produced by the most trifling exertion or emotion ; some slight oedema is probably perceived about the ankles. The debility becomes extreme ; the patient can no longer rise from his bed ; the mind occasionally wanders ; he falls into a prostrate and half-torpid state, and at length expires. Nevertheless, to the very last, and after a sickness of perhaps several months...
Page 130 - It makes its approach in so slow and insidious a manner that the patient can hardly fix a date to his earliest feelings of that languor, which is shortly to become so extreme. The countenance gets pale, the whites of the eyes become pearly, the general frame flabby, rather than wasted; the pulse perhaps large but remarkably soft and compressible, and occasionally with a slight jerk, especially under...
Page 38 - ... we may take it for a general rule that all homicide is malicious, and of course amounts to murder, unless where justified by the command or permission of the law; excused on the account of accident or self-preservation ; or alleviated into manslaughter, by being either the involuntary consequence of some act, not strictly lawful, or (if voluntary) occasioned by some sudden and sufficiently violent provocation.
Page 23 - It is very difficult to define the invisible line that divides perfect and partial insanity; but it must rest upon circumstances duly to be weighed and considered both by...
Page 10 - Canniff for the able manner in which he had conducted the business of the Section. Dr. PARKER called the attention of the meeting to the...
Page 129 - I had from time to time met with a very remarkable form of general anaemia, occurring without any discoverable cause whatever; cases in which there had been no previous loss of blood, no exhausting diarrhoea, no chlorosis, no purpura, no renal, splenic, miasmatic, glandular, strumous, or malignant disease.