American Homoeopathist, Volumes 4-5

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Chatterton-Peck., 1879
 

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Page 311 - Into whatever houses I enter, I will go into them for the benefit of the sick, and will abstain from every voluntary act of mischief and corruption; and, further, from the seduction of females or males, of freemen and slaves.
Page 311 - While I continue to keep this oath inviolate, may it be granted to me to enjoy life and the practice of the art, respected by all , men, in all times ! But should I trespass and violate this oath, may the reverse be my lot ! The Hippocratic Law.
Page 90 - ... this title, Dr. John Day of Geelong, Australia, recommends for use in civil and military hospitals, and also for the purpose of destroying the poison-germs of small-pox, scarlet fever, and other infectious diseases, a disinfectant ingeniously composed of one part of rectified oil of turpentine and seven parts of benzine, with the addition of five drops of oil of verbena to each ounce. Its purifying and disinfecting properties are due to the power which is possessed by each of its ingredients...
Page 340 - September, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted : Whereas, It has pleased our Heavenly Father in his providence to remove from our midst, by death, Dr.
Page 289 - ... one-seventh of its albumen, one-sixth or more of its globules, and at the same time loads it with a fœtid matter, the product of decomposition.
Page 289 - ... lips, an uninterrupted or frequently recurring shuddering (always getting stronger) that thrills deeply, even into the interior of the body. His pulse becomes small, hard and very rapid ; there is an inclination to vomit, or at least nausea at everything, especially...
Page 54 - Revue des Deux Mondes" on the means employed in the Argentine Republic to protect settlers in the Pampas from the Indians, gives some curious statemeats with regard to ostrich pepsine. The soldiers never could resist an ostrich hunt when they saw a male ostrich, as is the custom of that bird, taking out its young brood for food and exercise. The parent bird generally escaped, leaving its young in the hands of its enemies. When other food was scarce they ate the young ostriches. Some portions of the...
Page 289 - ... stiff, as from rheumatism ; the back of the tongue is whitish. At this period the patient experiences, if all goes on well, some discomfort in swallowing, a shooting pain in the root of the tongue, on both sides of the mouth a looseness or setting on edge of the teeth (the gums recede a little...
Page 142 - Material," Lucius D Morse, MD, Memphis, Tenn. From these reports, synopses will be made and submitted as a basis for discussion by the members of the Institute.
Page 27 - York, at $3 per year, and will enter all medical books and index the leading medical journals and transactions in English and other languages. A full list of the latter, numbering over 600, forms a part of the specimen number of the Index now issued under date of Jan.

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