Homoeopathic Journal of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Paedology, Volume 15

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A.L. Chatterton and Company, 1893
 

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Page 6 - THE HYGIENIC DERMAL POWDER" FOR INFANTS AND ADULTS. Originally investigated and its therapeutic properties discovered in the year 1868 by Dr. Fehr, and introduced to the Medical and the Pharmaceutical Professions in the year 1873.
Page 6 - Professions in the year 1873. COMPOSITION : Silicate of Magnesia with Carbolic and Salicylic Acids. PROPERTIES: Antiseptic, Antizymotic, and Disinfectant. Useful as a GENERAL SPRINKLING POWDER, with positive Hygienic, Prophylactic, and Therapeutic properties. GOOD IN ALL AFFECTIONS OF THE SKIN.
Page 49 - Among facts of this class there is perhaps none more striking than that quoted by the same author from Baron Percy, as having occurred after the siege of Landau in 1793. In addition to a violent cannonading, which kept the women for some time in a constant state of alarm, the arsenal blew up with a terrific explosion, which few could hear with unshaken nerves. Out of 92 children born in that district within a few months...
Page 570 - ... engaged for several years. The feature that will attract immediate attention is the large number of fine illustrations that have been included, many of which — as, for instance, the series of over fifty of the bacteria — have been drawn and engraved especially for the work. Every scientific-minded physician will also be glad to have defined several thousand commonly used terms in biology, chemistry, etc. The chief point, however, upon which the editor relies for the success of his book is...
Page 476 - Diseases of the Chest, Throat and Nasal Cavities. Including Physical Diagnosis and Diseases of the Lungs, Heart and Aorta. Laryngology and Diseases of the Pharynx, Larynx, Nose, Thyroid Gland and Esophagus.
Page 570 - A NEW ILLUSTRATED DICTIONARY OF MEDICINE, BIOLOGY, AND COLLATERAL SCIENCES." — Dr. George M. Gould, already well-known as the editor of two small medical dictionaries, has now about ready an unabridged, exhaustive work of the same class, upon which he and a corps of able assistants have been uninterruptedly engaged for several years. The feature that will attract immediate attention is the large number of...
Page 49 - ... to be a sufficient number of facts on record, to prove that habitual mental conditions on the part of the mother may have influence enough, at an early period of gestation, to produce evident bodily deformity, or peculiar tendencies of the mind.
Page 80 - He concludes that chloroform by inhalation can and will, if properly administered, save the lives of parturient females, suffering from organic disease, when death seems imminent from- over-stimulation of its ganglia through reflex nervous action. Organic heart disease, then, does not preclude the use of chloroform in labor, but rather is a condition calling for its careful administration.

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