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Page 92 - A Treatise on Human Physiology : designed for the use of Students and Practitioners of Medicine. By JOHN C. DALTON, MD, Professor of Physiology and Hygiene in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York.
Page 77 - It possesses all the sedative, anodyne and antispasmodic powers of Opium: To produce sleep and composure; to relieve pain and irritation; nervous excitement and morbid Irritability of body and mind; to allay convulsive...
Page 158 - MD, Demonstrator of Anatomy. The Anatomical rooms will be opened for Students, on the first Monday of October. A full Preliminary Course of Lectures, free to all Students, will be given by the Professors, commencing also on the first Monday of October. A Clinique has been established, in connection with the University, at which operations are performed and cases prescribed for and Lectured upon in presence of the Class.
Page 77 - ... and being purified from all the noxious and deleterious elements, its operation is attended by no sickness of the stomach, no vomiting, no costiveness, no headache, nor any derangement of the constitution or general health. Hence its high superiority over Laudanum, Paregoric, Black Drop, Denarcotized Laudanum, and every other Opiate preparation.
Page 117 - All that descends to the lower portion of the latter is unchanged. 14. Gum is not converted into sugar, but remains unchanged. 15. Gelatine is dissolved, and loses thereby its coagulability. 16. Casein remains partly dissolved in the digestive fluids. 17. Fat is entirely emulgated by the digestive fluids when alkaline or neutral, but partially when acid. 18. The digestive liquids of the small intestines possess digestive powers over protein substances. 19. The minimum of all digestive fluids entering...
Page 77 - To speak summarily, the Elixir of Opium, as a remedy, may be adopted in all cases in which either opium or its preparations are administered, with the certainty of obtaining all their salutary and happy effects, without being followed by their distressing and pernicious consequences.
Page 152 - ... cough from pressure of the spatula. " My experience of this treatment is as yet too limited to permit my saying anything of its permanent effects. In the case of bronchitis with asthma — a female, aged 24 — I have now injected the lungs eleven times, at first throwing in 3ij. of a solution of nitrate of silver, of the strength of 3ss. of the crystalized salt to |j.
Page 152 - Barker, of New York, who showed me the kind of catheter he had seen Dr. Green employ, and demonstrated the manner in which the operation was performed. Without entering into minute particulars, I have only to say that I have confirmed the statements made by Dr. Horace Green. I have introduced the catheter publicly in the clinical wards of the Royal Infirmary in seven patients.
Page 158 - William T. Briggs, MD, Demonstrator of Anatomy. The Anatomical Rooms will be opened for students on the first Monday of October. A full Preliminary Course of Lectures, free to all students, will be given by the professors,- commencing also on the first Monday of October. A Clinique has been established in connection with the University, at which operations are performed, and cases prescribed for, and lectured upon, in presence of the class. Amount of Fees for Lectures in the University is $105. Matriculation...
Page 153 - ... not being followed by the slightest irritation whatever, but rather by a pleasant feeling of warmth in the chest, (some have experienced a sensation of coolness,) followed by ease to the cough, and a check for a time to all expectoration. " I think it of importance that these facts should be known to the profession, as a homage justly due to the talents of a distinguished Trans-atlantic physician, and with the view of recommending a practice which, if judiciously employed, may form a new era...