Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, Volume 71

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A. and C. Black, 1849 - Medicine
 

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Page 471 - Drink no longer water; but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake, and thine often infirmities.
Page 427 - The Diagnosis, Pathology, and Treatment of Diseases of Women ; including the Diagnosis of Pregnancy. By GRAILY HEWITT, MD &c. President of the Obstetrical Society of London. Second Edition, enlarged; with 116 Woodcuts. 8vo. 24s. Lectures on the Diseases of Infancy and Childhood. By CHARLES WEST, MD &c.
Page 223 - I am riot sure that I shall be understood in this statement, but there is not one person in, I may say, ten thousand, who in addressing a body of people, does so in his natural voice ; and this habit is more especially observable in the pulpit. I believe that relaxation of the throat results from violent...
Page 338 - ... quavering motion they appear again.' In the numerous observations which I have made on these luminous circles, I have never been able to observe any colour but white, with the exception of a general red tinge which is seen when the eyelids are closed, and which is produced by the light which passes through them. The luminous circles too always continue while the pressure is applied, and they may be produced as readily after the eye has been long in darkness аа when it has been recently exposed...
Page 149 - OBSERVATIONS ON SOME OF THE PARTS of SURGICAL PRACTICE ; to which is prefixed, an Inquiry into the Claims that Surgery may be supposed to have for being classed as a Science, By JOHN PAINTER VINCENT, late Senior Surgeon to St.
Page 194 - A TREATISE ON DISEASES OF THE AIR PASSAGES. Comprising an inquiry into the History, Pathology, Causes, and Treatment of those Affections of the Throat called Bronchitis, Chronic Laryngitis, Clergyman's Sore Throat, etc., etc.
Page 338 - If we increase the pressure, the eye-ball, being filled with incompressible fluids, will protrude all around the point of pressure, and consequently the retina at the protruded part will be compressed by the outward pressure of the contained fluid, while the retina on each side, namely, under the point of pressure, and beyond the protruded part, will be drawn towards the protruded part, or dilated.
Page iii - OBSERVATIONS ON THE PATHOLOGY OF CROUP With Remarks on its Treatment by Topical Medications By Horace Green, MD 1 vol.
Page 433 - A TREATISE on the DISEASES of CHILDREN: with Directions for the Management of Infants from the Birth.
Page 373 - ... expectoration. These symptoms of phthisis becoming more alarming, as the winter advanced, he relinquished his practice and sailed for Mobile, early in January, 1838. So unfavourable did his symptoms appear, at this time, that one of the oldest and most experienced physicians of this city remarked to me, after taking leave of him, that " the Doctor would never live to return to New- York.

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