Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal, Volume 69

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1895
 

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Page 27 - An act to consolidate into one act and to declare the special and local laws affecting public interests in the city of New York," is hereby amended so as to read as follows : § 1850.
Page 164 - The writers of the unsuccessful essays can have them returned to any address they may name, by sending it and the motto which distinguished the essay to the Chairman of the Prize Committee, Horace Y.
Page 326 - ... practice. Therefore, a work which places before the physician in convenient form an epitomization of this literature by persons competent to pronounce upon the value of a discovery or of a method of treatment cannot but command his highest appreciation. It is this critical and judicial function that will be assumed by the editorial staff of the " American Year-Book of Medicine and Surgery.
Page 212 - The true Salicylic Acid obtained from the vegetable kingdom must alone be employed. If you have to give large doses, avoid giving the artificial product obtained from carbolic acid, however much it may have been dialyzed and purified. Give the acid without any alkali or base,
Page 94 - ... the smallpox was always present, filling the churchyards with corpses, tormenting with constant fears all whom it had not yet stricken, leaving on those whose lives it spared the hideous traces of its power, turning the babe into a changeling at which the mother shuddered, and making the eyes and cheeks of the betrothed maiden objects of horror to the lover.
Page 332 - Each essay must be distinguished by a motto, and accompanied by a sealed envelope bearing the same motto, and containing the name and address of the writer.
Page 65 - THE CARE OF THE BABY. — A Manual for Mothers and Nurses, containing Practical Directions for the Management of Infancy and Childhood in Health and in Disease.
Page 302 - Reinfection syphilitica does occur, but the recorded cases that are entirely trustworthy are very few, indeed. Analysis shows that most of the alleged cases are open to grave doubt, and that some of them are manifestly errors of diagnosis. The following lesions may simulate chancre. a. Artificial indurations caused by irritants applied to simple lesions. b. Nodular lymphangites, as occur in gonorrhoea.
Page 94 - ... all the axes lying in planes at right angles to this line are correspondingly lengthened, with a proportional lengthening of their circumferences and separation of their meridians, so that the direct depressing force is converted into an indirect disruptive force acting at right angles to the direction of the former. The effect is to produce a fissure or fissures, which will have a general meridional direction.
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