The Medico-chirurgical Review and Journal of Practical Medicine, Volume 39Richard & George S. Wood, 1843 |
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... Respiration 19. Case of Gingival Diptherite , with Remarks 20. Danger of excessive Depletion in Pericarditis 21. M. Recamier on Critical Days in Disease 11. Remarks on the Art of Diving 12. A Simple Means to stop or prevent Coughing 13 ...
... Respiration 19. Case of Gingival Diptherite , with Remarks 20. Danger of excessive Depletion in Pericarditis 21. M. Recamier on Critical Days in Disease 11. Remarks on the Art of Diving 12. A Simple Means to stop or prevent Coughing 13 ...
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... respiration from peurile vesicular respiration , but the writer with great diffidence states , as the result of extensive experience , that the difference is most palpable , and that the former is to be recognized in many cases where a ...
... respiration from peurile vesicular respiration , but the writer with great diffidence states , as the result of extensive experience , that the difference is most palpable , and that the former is to be recognized in many cases where a ...
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... respiration , and constant teasing cough , have been the chief symptoms , with one other , which is the most characteristic , viz . extreme immobility of the chest in breathing , the respiration being wholly abdominal . When effusion ...
... respiration , and constant teasing cough , have been the chief symptoms , with one other , which is the most characteristic , viz . extreme immobility of the chest in breathing , the respiration being wholly abdominal . When effusion ...
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... respiration , and relation ; it affects the body , and it affects the mind . It is a disorder with peculiar characters , often propagating itself by a poison , which , not unlike a leaven , sets up a new series of actions in the system ...
... respiration , and relation ; it affects the body , and it affects the mind . It is a disorder with peculiar characters , often propagating itself by a poison , which , not unlike a leaven , sets up a new series of actions in the system ...
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... Respiration and Deglutition , -two functions of which the continual maintenance is essential to the life of the being ; and it would seem as if these were placed within the cranium , to be more secured from accidental injury . The ...
... Respiration and Deglutition , -two functions of which the continual maintenance is essential to the life of the being ; and it would seem as if these were placed within the cranium , to be more secured from accidental injury . The ...
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Page 303 - present little worthy attention ; and the last requires a fuller analysis than our limits now permit. We hope to return to it at a future opportunity. A TREATISE ON FOOD AND DIET, WITH OBSERVATIONS ON THE DIETETICAL REGIMEN SUITED FOR DISORDERED STATES OF THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS ; AND AN ACCOUNT OF THE DIETARIES OF SOME OF THE PRINCIPAL METROPOLITAN AND OTHER ESTABLISHMENTS FOR PAUPERS
Page 405 - been registered, instead of primary diseases. The nomenclature is of as much importance in this department of inquiry as weights and measures in the physical sciences, and should be settled without delay." 145. , The worthlessness of vague information can not be more strikingly exemplified than in statistical inquiries. We would gladly see
Page 325 - and that in a very soluble form, capable of reaching every part of the body. Thus, even in the earliest period of its life, the development of the organs, in which vitality resides, is, in the carnivorous animal, dependent on the supply of a substance, identical in organic composition with the chief constituents of its blood.
Page 117 - DISEASES OF THE SKIN, ARRANGED ACCORDING TO A NATURAL SYSTEM OF CLASSIFICATION, AND PRECEDED BY AN OUTLINE OF THE ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE SKIN. By Erasmus Wilson, Consulting Surgeon to the St. Paneras Infirmary, Lecturer on Anatomy and Physiology, &c. London: Churchill, 1842. 8vo. pp. 407.
Page 59 - being Gazetted. I declare my age not to exceed twenty-six years, that I am unmarried, and that I labour under no mental nor constitutional disease, nor physical debility, that can interfere with the most efficient discharge of the duties of a medical officer. * Christian and surname at
Page 405 - obvious, that it is surprising no attention has been paid to its enforcement in bills of mortality. Each disease has in many instances been denoted by three or four terms, and each term has been applied to as many different diseases ; vague» inconvenient names have been employed, or complications
Page 473 - 5. It should not be administered so as to excite nausea, vomiting, or purging. These effects should be regarded as indicative of the unfavourable operation of the medicine. " 6. Colchicum may be regarded as acting favourably, when, under its use, the urine is increased in quantity, a more abundant bile is discharged ; when the
Page 434 - was rendered soluble again in the space of one year, was not sufficient to satisfy the demands of the plants. Almost all the cultivated land in Europe is * The quantity of silicate of potash, that is removed from a meadow, in the form of hay, is very considerable. A curious illustration of this occurred some time ago near
Page 434 - aid of manure, but now whole districts are converted into unfruitful pasture land, which without manure produces neither wheat nor tobacco. From every acre of this land, there were removed in the space of one hundred years ISOOlbs. of alkalies in leaves, grain,
Page 432 - nitrogen. A certain proportion of nitrogen is exported with corn and cattle ; and this exportation takes place every year, without the smallest compensation; yet after a given number of years, the quantity of nitrogen will be found to have increased. Whence, we may ask, comes this increase of nitrogen