Transactions of the Medical Association of the State of AlabamaThe Association, 1890 |
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Page 284 - It is indeed the general rule that a policy, and the money to become due under it, belong, the moment it is issued, to the person or persons named in it as the beneficiary or beneficiaries : and that there is no power in the person procuring the insurance, by any act of his, by deed or by will, to transfer to any other person the interest of the person named.
Page 258 - Surgical interference is not justifiable and should not be instituted in cases of typhoid fever, in which perforation occurs when the infective process is at its height. In' mild cases of the disease in which the pyrexia has not been of high grade and in which the perforation occurs at the end of the third week, or later, when the stage of convalescence is fully pronounced, laparotomy may be performed.
Page 126 - States shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction, be punished by a fine not exceeding...
Page 125 - That whenever it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the President that cholera, yellow fever, small-pox, or plague exists in any State or Territory, or in the District of Columbia...
Page 267 - ... and when the parts are thus stretched we suddenly add to the tension by pressing with the thumb or finger on the part thus stretched, or by pinching the stretched tissue between the thumb and finger, and if by either of these acts we produce a reflex spasm, or sudden shivering of the whole body, that muscle, tendon, or tissue, thus yielding this reflex spasm is contractured, and cannot be elongated without severing of its fibres.
Page 126 - ... be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or imprisonment for not more than one year, or both, in the discretion of the court.
Page 47 - Said Board shall cause such examination to be both scientific and practical, but of sufficient severity to test the candidate's fitness to practice medicine and surgery.
Page 125 - Treasury to promulgate such rules and regulations as in his judgment may be necessary to prevent the spread of such disease from one State or Territory into another, or from any State or Territory into the District of Columbia, or from the District of Columbia into any State or Territory, and to...
Page 286 - Edinburgh — viz., Bachelor of Medicine (MB), Master in Surgery (CM.), and Doctor of Medicine (MD). The...
Page 238 - Difficulties attending the functions of accommodating and of adjusting the eyes in the act of vision, or irritations arising from the nerves involved in these processes, are among the most prolific sources of nervous disturbances, and more frequently than other conditions constitute a neuropathic tendency.