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Page 94 - Text-Book of Hygiene. A COMPREHENSIVE TREATISE ON THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE FROM AN AMERICAN STAND-POINT. By GEORGE H. ROHE, MD, Professor of Obstetrics and Hygiene in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore ; Member of the American Public Health Association, etc. Second Edition, thoroughly revised and largely rewritten, with many illustrations and valuable tables.
Page 339 - A wise physician, skilled our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal.
Page 158 - MEDICAL ANNUAL and Practitioner's Index for 1891. Edited by P. W. Williams, MD, Secretary of Staff, assisted by a corps of thirty-eight collaborators — European and American specialists in their several departments. 600 octavo pages. Illustrated. $2.75. EB Treat, Publisher, 5 Cooper Union, New York. The...
Page 158 - Books of the Year, etc. The arrangement of the work is alphabetical, and with its complete index, makes it a reference book of rare worth. In short, the "Annual" is what it claims to be — a recapitulation of the year's progress in medicine, serving to keep the practitioner abreast of the times with reference to the medical literature of the world.
Page 58 - This should be painted all over the bruised surface with a camel's hair pencil and allowed to dry on, a second or third coating being applied as soon as the first is dry. If done...
Page 175 - Or, every morning cut up a little turf of fresh earth, and lying down, breathe into the hole for a quarter of an hour.
Page 293 - Every powerful medicinal substance produces in the human body a kind of peculiar disease; the more powerful the medicine, the more peculiar, marked, and violent the disease. We should imitate nature which sometimes cures a chronic disease by superadding another, and employ in the (especially chronic) disease we wish to cure, that medicine which is able to produce another very similar artificial disease, and the former will be cured; similia similibus.
Page xxii - Winter, 1891-92. Where are you going to attend medical lectures and clinics during the winter session of 1891-92 ? It is important to decide right. Would teachers of long experience be the most likely to instruct and guide you in your studies ? Would a medical school that makes no promise for hospital or college tuition, special clinics, or any means for observation and study that is not LITERALLY AND RIGHTEOUSLY KEPT...
Page 279 - And the persecutions once committed to prevent the one evil, countenance the penalties used to put down the other. Contrariwise, the arguments employed by the dissenter, to show that the moral sanity of the people is not a matter for state superintendence, are applicable, with...
Page 157 - Powders must be thoroughly moistened ; unless they be so, the powder adhering the fauces is apt to produce vomiting. Inunctions require a clean surface, and are best made where the epidermis is thin, and the net of lymph-ducts very extensive, as on the inner aspect of the forearm and the thigh.