The Lancet, Volume 2J. Onwhyn, 1872 - Medicine |
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... side , or simply in incura- time of the first injection the limb began to improve , both bility on the other - to begin by buoying up delusive hopes , in power and in size . I then took the left leg - the more and then to foster a vague ...
... side , or simply in incura- time of the first injection the limb began to improve , both bility on the other - to begin by buoying up delusive hopes , in power and in size . I then took the left leg - the more and then to foster a vague ...
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... side for those who have a fancy for such a mode of packing ? AN IMPROVED PERIMETER . ( FOR MEASURING THE FIELD OF VISION . ) BY ROBERT BRUDENELL CARTER , F.R.C.S. , OPHTHALMIC SURGEON TO ST . GEORGE'S HOSPITAL , AND SURGEON TO THE ROYAL ...
... side for those who have a fancy for such a mode of packing ? AN IMPROVED PERIMETER . ( FOR MEASURING THE FIELD OF VISION . ) BY ROBERT BRUDENELL CARTER , F.R.C.S. , OPHTHALMIC SURGEON TO ST . GEORGE'S HOSPITAL , AND SURGEON TO THE ROYAL ...
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... side of the eye under examination . The patient is then instructed to look through the hole , the instrument being placed as before , and the eye not under examination closed . The operator moves the slide from without inwards along ...
... side of the eye under examination . The patient is then instructed to look through the hole , the instrument being placed as before , and the eye not under examination closed . The operator moves the slide from without inwards along ...
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... side was deficient . There was no bulging of the chest - walls in any place . The whole of the left side was dull on percussion ; on the right side , absolute dulness from below the clavicle to the border upper of the fifth rib ; the ...
... side was deficient . There was no bulging of the chest - walls in any place . The whole of the left side was dull on percussion ; on the right side , absolute dulness from below the clavicle to the border upper of the fifth rib ; the ...
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... side to side , but by raising or lowering the head , so that the eye of the patient may be viewed in all direc- tions and in various lights , as may be necessary , and this without approaching to or receding from the subject of the ...
... side to side , but by raising or lowering the head , so that the eye of the patient may be viewed in all direc- tions and in various lights , as may be necessary , and this without approaching to or receding from the subject of the ...
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Page 187 - Till body up to spirit work, in bounds Proportion'd to each kind. So from the root Springs lighter the green stalk, from thence the leaves More aery, last the bright consummate flower Spirits odorous breathes...
Page 181 - A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.] KING. What dost thou mean by this? HAM. Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar. KING. Where is Polonius? HAM. In heaven; send thither to see. If your messenger find him not there, seek him i
Page 181 - Not where he eats, but where he is eaten : a certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet : we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots...
Page 187 - Man having been created after this manner, it is said, as a consequence, that man became a living soul ? whence it may be inferred (unless we had rather take the heathen writers for our teachers respecting the nature of the soul) that man is a living being, intrinsically and properly one and individual, not compound or separable, not, according to the common opinion, made up and framed of two distinct and different natures, as of soul and body, — but that the whole man is soul, and the soul man,...
Page 213 - I find this conclusion more impressed upon me, — that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly, is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one.
Page 187 - They are of weak and defective intellect, though excessively cunning ; and not a few of them are weak-minded and imbecile. The women are ugly in features, and without grace of expression or movement. The children, who become juvenile criminals, do not evince the educational aptitude of the higher industrial classes ; they are deficient in the power of attention and application, have bad memories, and make slow progress in learning ; many of them are weak in mind and body, and some of them actually...
Page 192 - Suppose an unvaccinated person to inhale the germ of variola on a Monday, if he be vaccinated as late as the following Wednesday the vaccination will be in time to prevent smallpox being developed; if it be put off until Thursday the smallpox will appear, but will be modified; if the vaccination be delayed until Friday it will be of no use, it will not have had time to reach the the stage of areola, the index of safety, before the illness of smallpox begins.
Page 185 - He recommended that bodily restraint should be avoided as much as possible, and that none but the most dangerous should be confined by bonds. Without going further into particulars, enough has been said to show that the Greeks had acquired accurate notions of madness as a disease, which was to be cured by appropriate and moral treatment. How came it to pass that these enlightened views ever fell into oblivion? The question is really only a part of the larger question, how...
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Page 284 - idiots have been improved, educated, and even cured ; not one in a thousand has been entirely refractory to treatment ; not one in a hundred who has not been made more happy and healthy ; more than thirty per cent. have been taught to conform to social and moral law, and rendered capable of order, of good feeling and of working like the third of a man ; more than forty per cent. have become capable of the ordinary transactions of life under friendly control, of understanding moral and social abstractions,...