Weekly Medical Review, Volume 8

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J. H. Chambers & Company, 1883
 

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Page 232 - Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new : That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do...
Page 233 - But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think...
Page 109 - Her riedical attendant had tried the ordinary remedies without success. Indian hemp was given as above. Its action was speedy and certain. Only one bottle was taken. She was afterwards treated for anaemia, due to loss of blood. Twelve months after this my patient sent for a bottle of the "green medicine.
Page 164 - Broader casts are worse than narrow casts, as far as diagnosis is concerned, for the former signify a chronic disease. 11. The urine should be fresh for microscopical examination, as the micrococci will change hyaline casts into granular casts, or devour them entirely in a short time.
Page 209 - Bat every molecule of chromic acid which destroys a molecule of organic tissue is itself destroyed and rendered inert by being reduced to an insoluble and inert oxide of chromium ; and this principle and degree of self-limitation is not obtained from any other caustic.
Page 171 - Setting aside all extravagant and visionary notions on the subject, I am clearly of. opinion that the moderate use of coca is not merely innoxious, but that it may even be very conducive to health. In support of this conclusion, I may refer to the numerous examples of longevity among Indians who, almost from the age of boyhood, have been in the habit of masticating coca three times a day...
Page 163 - The urine should be fresh for microscopical examination, as the micrococci will change hyaline casts into granular casts or devour them entirely in a short time. 12. Uric...
Page 379 - System, (p. 332,) defines it to be "a manifestation of disease of the brain, characterized by a general or partial derangement of one or more faculties of the mind, and in which, while consciousness is not abolished, mental freedom is perverted, weakened or destroyed.
Page 110 - The upper ends of the tubules terminate in a number of divisions, which branch off into the muscular walls of the urethra. By injecting one of the tubules with mercury, and then dividing it, the openings of the branches can be easily seen.
Page 164 - Contagium may be cultivated apart from the animal body, in some medium or media not otherwise zymotic ; the method to be such that the Contagium may by means of it be multiplied to an indefinite extent in successive generations, and that the product after any number of such generations shall (so far as can within the time be tested) prove itself of identical potency with standard Vaccine Lymph.

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