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Page 182 - SURGERY (THE INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF). A Systematic Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Surgery by Authors of various Nations.
Page 350 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 489 - It has the power of increasing tissue-change, and thus multiplying the products of tissue-waste which result from it, but it removes these waste products as fast as they are formed, and thus, by giving rise to increased appetite, provides fresh nutriment for the tissues, and thus acts as a true tonic. In persons who are accustomed to take too little water, the products of tissue- waste may be formed faster than they are removed, and thus accumulating may give rise to disease.
Page 42 - I learnt afterwards that she had sent this medicine to a lady friend who had been unsuccessfully treated by another medical man for several months for the same complaint. It proved equally successful. The failures are so few, that I venture to call it a specific in menorrhagia. The drug deserves a trial.
Page 489 - Many gouty persons are accustomed to take little or no water except in the form of a small cup of tea or coffee daily, besides what they get in the form of wine or beer. In such people a large tumbler of water drunk every morning, and especially with the addition of some nitrate or carbonate of potassium, will prevent a gouty paroxysm. Still more numerous, possibly, is the class of people who arise in the morning feeling weak and languid, more tired, indeed, than when they went to bed.
Page 503 - Pennsylvania ; and ARTHUR VAN HARLINGEN, MD, Professor of Diseases of the Skin in the Philadelphia Polyclinic and College for Graduates in Medicine ; late Clinical Lecturer on Dermatology in Jefferson Medical College ; Dermatologist to the Howard Hospital.
Page 92 - By JAMES TYSON, MD, Professor of General Pathology and Morbid Anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania...
Page 224 - The problem of the connection of body and soul is as insoluble in its modern form as it was in the prescientific ages.
Page 459 - Non-Officinal drugs now in common use, by C. Henri Leonard, AM, MD, Professor of the Medical and Surgical Diseases of Women and Clinical Gynaecology in the Detroit College of Medicine; Member of the American Medical Association, etc., etc.
Page 132 - Kennedy's concentrated aqueous extract of pinus canadensis (dark), one teaspoonful ; warm water, one tablespoonful. M. Saturate a wad of cotton batting with this solution, and while the speculum is in place, introduce the saturated cotton through it. That the medicated cotton may be placed firmly upon the ulcerated and inflamed os, we put the hollow bulb conductor into the speculum, and with this we push the cotton entirely through the speculum, and against the uterus. We now carefully withdraw the...