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Page 273 - at least, and also in that of many others, position in sleep is of no sort of consequence. ««It would be easy to raise in China an army of a million men — nay, of ten millions—tested by competitive examination as to their capacity to go to sleep across three wheelbarrows, head
Page 285 - the temperature was lower, the absolute and relative humidity and the day ozone were less, and the night ozone was much less. Including reports by regular observers and others, diphtheria was reported present at twenty places in Michigan in September, 1888,
Page 143 - We take this method of denouncing the circulation of certain erroneous reports, as being the outcome of either ignorance or malice. We have no connection with the firm of HH Warner & Co. of Rochester, who make "Safe Remedies" and other patent medicines. Our advertising is to the Medical Profession, and our
Page 109 - FOR WARTS.—It is now fairly established, says a writer in the Medical Press, that the common wart which is so unsightly and often so proliferous on the hands and face, can be easily removed by small doses of sulphate of magnesia taken internally. M. Colrat, of Lyons, has drawn attention to this
Page 122 - THE THREE ETHICAL CODES. Cloth, 55 pages, postpaid 50 cents. The Illustrated Medical Journal Co., Publishers, Detroit, Mich. In this little book is reprinted the Code of Ethics, of the American Medical Association, with its Constitution, By-Laws and Ordinances, brought down to 1888; The Code of Ethics of the American Institute of
Page 109 - fact. Several children treated with three-grain doses of Epsom salts, morning and evening, were promptly cured. M. Aubert cites the case of a woman whose face was disfigured by these excresences and who was cured in a month by a drachm and a half of magnesia taken daily.—
Page 180 - nearly 73 per cent. Taking the mortality at 17 1-2 per cent, of those attacked, and the deaths this year in the whole country at 10,000, it will follow that more than 122,000 vaccinated persons have suffered from small-pox ! This is an alarming state of things. Can we greatly wonder that the opponents of vaccination should point to such
Page 257 - cholera infantum, cholera morbus, remittent fever, typhomalarial fever and erysipelas increased and that measles decreased in prevalence. Compared with the preceding month the temperature in the month of August, 1888, was lower, the absolute humidity and the day and night ozone were less, and the relative humidity was the same. Compared with the average for the month of August in the nine years,
Page 315 - per cent, of the albuminoids which it contains are in the soluble form. "The sample also gave readily, the biuret reaction for peptones. I failed to detect in the food, when moistened, any of the 'hard, unchanged particles of casein' which it has been asserted that it contains. '- My results lead