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Page 25 - ... of eclampsic seizure, there is danger of its being brought on, and not averted, by the use of the lancet, agreeably to the reasons set forth by that able and distinguished physician, Dr. Henry Holland, in his Medical Notes and Reflections. Dr. Holland, at p. 52 says, " The use of the lancet is easy, and gives a show of activity in the practitioner, at moments when there appears peculiar need of this promptitude ; current opinions and prejudices are wholly on the side of bleeding ; and the complexity...
Page 8 - SECOND WINTER SESSION :— Anatomy and physiology, anatomical demonstrations, dissections; principles and practice of medicine ; medical practice of an hospital. SECOND SUMMER SESSION :—Botany, if not attended during the first summer season ; midwifery and diseases of women and children ; forensic medicine ; medical practice of an hospital.
Page 22 - ... the regulations. By the rules of the Service, no Assistant-Surgeon can be promoted to the rank of Surgeon until he shall have served three years...
Page 28 - Individualities of each have their effect in creating difficulties, and these amongst the most arduous which beset the path of the physician.* Few cases occur strictly alike, even when the source of disorder is manifestly the same. Primary causes of disease are often wholly obscured by those of secondary kind. Organs remote from each other by place and function are simultaneously disturbed. Translations of morbid action take place from one part to another.
Page 29 - ... error. It is the want of this right understanding of medical evidence, which makes the mass of mankind so prone to be deceived by imposture of every kind ; whether it be the idle fashion as to particular remedies ; or the worse, because wider, deception of some system, professing to have attained at once, what the most learned and acute observers have laboured after for ages in vain.
Page 7 - Of having been engaged six years in the acquirement of professional knowledge. 3. Of having studied Anatomy and Physiology, by attendance on Lectures and Demonstrations, and by Dissections, during two anatomical seasons.
Page 7 - October, 1835, will al»o be required to produce proof of having attended, during three Winter and two Summer sessions, lectures in the following order, and medical practice from the commencement of the second, to the termination of the third Winter Session. The Winter medical session is to be understood as commencing on the 1st of October, and terminating in the middle of April, with a recess of fourteen days at Christmas : the Sammer session as commencing on the lit of Miy, and ending on the 31st...
Page 7 - ... comprising not less than sixty lectures. 5. Of having attended lectures on the practice of Physic, on Chemistry, and on Midwifery, during six months; and on Botany and Materia Medica during three months. 6. Of having attended, during twelve months, the surgical practice of a...
Page 29 - Suffolk, 1816; mar. 1846, dau. of Joseph Garde, Esq., of Cork; educated originally for the medical profession at St. Thomas' hospital ; and was admitted a member of the College of Surgeons and a licentiate of Apothecaries Hall ; subsequently proceeded to Queens
Page 16 - ... even of the remedies in common use, I feel that it will be almost a waste of time to endeavour to enlighten their minds on the subject. They will always be disposed to listen to, and to believe, the histories of the marvellous cures of hysterical affections ; and with them conjurors of all kinds, from Prince Hohenlohe and the professors of animal magnetism, down to the most vulgar impostors, will always be the successful rivals of those practitioners, who have studied their profession as a science....