Occidental Medical Times, Volume 4

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1890
 

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Page 161 - Act applies" means any of the following diseases, namely : small-pox, cholera, diphtheria, membranous croup, erysipelas, the disease known as scarlatina or scarlet fever, and the fevers known by any of the following names : typhus, typhoid, enteric, relapsing, continued, or puerperal...
Page 565 - Diseases of the Eye. By EDWARD JACKSON, AM, MD, Professor of Diseases of the Eye...
Page 400 - OFFICIAL LIST OF CHANGES OF STATIONS AND DUTIES OF MEDICAL OFFICERS OF THE US MARINE HOSPITAL SERVICE FOR THE THREE WEEKS ENDED SEPTEMBER 4, 1886.
Page 416 - ... unheeded. During the first eight or ten years of child-life, the amount of mental cultivation which a child's brain is capable of receiving with permanent advantage is much less than is commonly believed. No greater physiological mistake is possible than that of attempting any considerable degree of such culture until the sufficient development of the physical stamina and moral faculties is accomplished. The organ of the mind is as much a part of the body as the hand, and ere either can function...
Page xxii - Its action is prompt ; stimulating the appetite and the digestion, it promotes assimilation, and enters directly into the circulation with the food products. The prescribed dose produces a feeling of buoyancy, removing depression or melancholy, and hence is of great value in the treatment of MENTAL AND NERVOUS AFFECTIONS. From its exerting a double tonic effect and influencing a healthy flow of the secretions, its use is indicated in a wide range of diseases. Each Bottle of Fellows' Hypophosphites...
Page 637 - ... containing the microbe upon which I was experimenting. I have also experimented upon old cultures loaded with a large number of the spores of the bacillus anthracis. In all cases my experiments were made with a few cubic centimetres of culture in sterilized test-tubes, in order to obtain accurate results. The destructive action of peroxide of hydrogen, even diluted in the above proportions, is almost instantaneous. After a contact of a few minutes, I have tried to cultivate the microbes which...
Page 222 - Hand-Book of Materia Medica, Pharmacy and Therapeutics, including the Physiological Action of Drugs, the Special Therapeutics of Disease, Official and Extemporaneous Pharmacy, and Minute Directions for Prescription Writing.
Page 342 - New Medical Dictionary. Including all the Words and Phrases used in Medicine, with their proper Pronunciation and Definitions, based on Recent Medical Literature. By GEORGE M. GOULD, BA, MD, Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Philadelphia Hospital, etc., With Tables of the Bacilli, Micrococci, Leucoma'ines, Ptomaines, etc., of the Arteries, Muscles, Nerves, Ganglia and Plexuses; Mineral Springs of US, Vital Statistics, etc.
Page 333 - Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel ; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
Page 344 - The prize is open for competition to the whole world, but the essay must be the production of a single person. The essay, which must be written in the English language, or if in a foreign language, accompanied by an English translation, must be sent to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, before January 1, 1898, addressed to Barton Cooke Hirst, MD, Chairman of the William F.

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