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Page 259 - The change in the form and shape of the uterus, is frequently brought about in consequence of the tissues of the uterus being previously in a state of unusual softness, or what may be often correctly designated as chronic inflammation.
Page 93 - Wait, sir, until he reacts, and then bleed him — bleed him to death, sir!" i On this text Dr. Physick founded very elaborate instructions for us who were his pupils. A spoken word, ofttimes becomes a guiding idea for a man's whole life, and the hospital pupil never forgot this one. One day while strolling along Ninth Street near the University...
Page 63 - W. Taylor, AM, MD, Clinical Professor of Genito-Urinary Diseases in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York.
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Page 155 - Studies, by AUSTIN FLINT, MD, Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine and of Clinical Medicine in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College.
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Page 339 - ... the upper bone of the sternum. As the chin is now slowly depressed, the hum becomes less loudly audible, and ceases shortly before the head reaches its ordinary position.
Page 338 - Clinical Studies of Disease in Children. By EUSTACE SMITH, MD, FRCP, Physician to HM the King of the Belgians, and to the East London Hospital for Children. Second Edition. Post 8vo. [In preparation. By the same Author. On the Wasting Diseases of Infants and Children.
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Page 359 - His collected writings passed through five editions and are easy to get. Rush " is the father not only of American medicine, but of American medical literature, the type of a great man, many-sided, far-seeing, full of intellect, and genius ; abused and vilified, as man hardly ever was before, by his contemporaries, professional and non-professional ; misunderstood by his immediate successors, and unappreciated by the present generation, few of whom know anything of his real character.