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Page 1 - For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them •, and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way ; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else.
Page 166 - THE URINE AND ITS DERANGEMENTS with the Application of Physiological Chemistry to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Constitutional as well as Local Diseases.
Page 131 - Four drops or six globules every one, two or three hours, according to the urgency of the case.
Page 297 - But the man of science, who, forgetting the limits of philosophical inquiry, slides from these formulae and symbols into what is commonly understood by materialism, seems to me to place himself on a level with the mathematician, who should mistake the x's and y's with which he works his problems, for real entities — and with this further disadvantage, as compared with the mathematician, that the blunders of the latter are of no practical consequence, while the errors of systematic materialism may...
Page 311 - ... that respiration is not impeded, but that, where even one entire lung is hepatized, the distress of breathing is not increased, and it appears that the respiratory changes go on under the disadvantageous circumstances present as well as if no alcohol had been given. " The conclusion from all this is, most certainly, that alcohol does not do harm in fevers and acute inflammations ; that it does not produce intoxication in...
Page 372 - The stomach is not a chemical laboratory or "a kitchen for cooking food," as Abernethy wisely remarked. Food should not be subjected to the ordeal of chemists, as the fashion is. Among the articles that have been introduced in the dietary department, and has taken a firm stand in the materia medica, is pepsin. Generally, however, patients have been in the habit of taking starch rather than pepsin.
Page 170 - ... ulcerating intestine into the abdominal cavity. When the coverings of the hernia are so inflamed as to make it probable that sloughing or suppuration has taken place beneath them, reduction should not be attempted without operation ; and, even when they are less inflamed, none but very brief and very gentle efforts should be made, for success is improbable, and failure may be mischievous. The longer the signs of strangulation have existed, the shorter should be the efforts at reduction ; and...
Page 173 - Hence they are most useful in the hernise of which the difficulty of reduction is chiefly due to muscular resistance ; in the recent, or in the recently much enlarged ; in the inguinal more than in the femoral, and in these more than in the umbilical ; in the painful more than in the painless.
Page 287 - A TEXT-BOOK OF HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY; Designed for the Use of Practitioners and Students of Medicine.
Page 374 - ... He has been astonished that Blancard's pill has been so useful as has been stated — it being covered with a metallic coat. Medicines in capsules are not to be advocated — they being not easily dissolved. The use of various forms of divided medicines, particularly " The Divided Medicine Co.'s " preparations, is another fallacy.