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Page 237 - I. From the reports of medical inspectors and the sanitary reports to this office, it appears that the administration of Calomel has so frequently been pushed to excess by military surgeons as to call for prompt steps by this office to correct this abuse ; an abuse, the melancholy effects of which, as officially reported; have exhibited themselves not only in innumerable cases of profuse salivation, but in the not infrequent occurrence of mercurial gangrene.
Page 30 - DR. HEADLAND. ON THE ACTION OF MEDICINES IN THE SYSTEM. Being the Prize Essay to which the Medical Society of London awarded the Fothergillian Gold Medal for 1852. Second Edition. 8vo. cloth, 10s. MR. HIQGINBOTTOM, FRS, FRCS AN ESSAY ON THE USE OF THE NITRATE OF SILVER IN THE CURE OF INFLAMMATION, WOUNDS, AND ULCERS. Second Edition. Price 5s. ADDITIONAL OBSERVATIONS' ON THE NITRATE OF SILVER; with full Directions for its Use as a Therapeutic Agent.
Page 235 - By GUNNING S. BEDFORD, AM, MD, Professor of Obstetrics, the Diseases of Women and Children...
Page 379 - Report of a Committee of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, on the Alleged Dangers which accompany the Inhalation of the Vapor of Sulphuric Ether.
Page 237 - No doubt exists that more harm has resulted from the misuse of both these agents, in the treatment of disease, than benefit from their proper administration.
Page 99 - A residence on or near a damp soil, whether that dampness be inherent in the soil itself, or caused by percolation from adjacent ponds, rivers, marshes, or springy soils, is one of the primal causes of consumption in Massachusetts, probably in New England, and possibly in other portions of the globe. " Second, Consumption can be checked in its career, and possibly — nay, probably — prevented in some instances by attention to this law.
Page 287 - Spiritus intus alit: totamque infusa per artus ' Mens agitat molem, et magno se corpore miscet ' Inde hominum pecudumque genus vitaeque volantum ' Et quae marmoreo fert monstra sub aequore pontus.
Page 92 - I believe that the phenomenon most probably depends on some affection of the diaphragm, which, is thrown into a state of contraction, and pushes the bowels downwards into the abdominal cavity.
Page 191 - A THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL TREATISE ON MIDWIFERY INCLUDING THE DISEASES OF PREGNANCY AND PARTURITION. Revised and Annotated by S. TARNIER. Translated from the Seventh French Edition by WR BULLOCK, MD Royal 8vo, over noo pages, 175 Illustrations, 30s.
Page 184 - The progress of every science is affected more by the scheme according to which it is cultivated, than by the actual ability of the cultivators themselves. If they who travel in an unknown country, spend their force in running on the wrong road, they will miss the point at which they aim, and perchance may faint and fall by the way.