North American Archives of Medical & Surgical Science, 1. köideEli Geddings 1835 |
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Page 425 - The Principles of Physiology, applied to the Preservation of Health, and to the Improvement of Physical and Mental Education.
Page 224 - HUMAN HEALTH ; or, the Influence of Atmosphere and Locality, Change of Air and Climate, Seasons, Food, Clothing, Bathing, Mineral Springs, Exercise.
Page 424 - The little regard which has hitherto been paid to the laws of the human constitution, as the true basis on which our attempts to improve the condition of man ought to rest, will be obvious from the fact, that, notwithstanding the direct uses to which a knowledge of the conditions which regulate the healthy action of the bodily organs may be applied, in the prevention, detection, and treatment of disease, there is scarcely a medical school in this country in which any special provision is made for...
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Page 66 - ... 3. Serous and synovial membranes all secrete an alkaline liquor in a normal state, which in certain diseases sometimes becomes acid. 4. The external acid and the internal alkaline membranes of the human body represent the two poles of a pile, the electrical effects of which are appreciable by the galvanometer. Thus, in placing one of the conductors of the instrument in contact with the mucous membrane of the mouth, and the other in contact with the skin, the magnetic needle deviates fifteen,...
Page 62 - I saw him, he had lost a considerable quantity of blood, and appeared very faint ; when I turned him on his right side, a stream of venous blood issued from the orifice, through which the stick entered the thorax. Several hours elapsed before any degree of re-action took place. He complained of no pain. For the first ten days or a fortnight after the accident, he appeared to be recovering, and once, during that time, walked into his garden, and back, a distance of about eighty yards ; and whilst...
Page 152 - An Inquiry into the Claims of Dr. William Harvey to the discovery of the circulation of the blood, with a more equitable retrospect of that event...
Page 429 - I am acquainted with a chemist who was suddenly deprived of sense as he stood over a pneumatic trough, in which he was collecting the gas. It would seem to act upon the nervous system through the medium of the blood, in which it is extremely soluble. It constitutes the particular gas of privies, and is the immediate cause of those accidents which so frequently befal nightmen, and of which I have given a full account in another work.
Page 409 - With respect to the pathology of the lithic urine, it may be generally considered as a symptom of an imperfect state of the digestive organs, either induced, in each individual case, by a specific cause acting upon the stomach and the chylopoietic viscera, or by a peculiar condition of the constitution, more especially by the gouty diathesis.$ It is this state of the urine which lays the foundation for a large proportion of the calculi which are occasionally formed in the bladder, or other parts...
Page 79 - For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still; While words of learned length, and thundering sound, Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around, And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew.