The Medical Age, Volume 8George S. Davis, 1890 |
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Page 448 - A MANUAL OF MODERN SURGERY. AN EXPOSITION OF THE ACCEPTED DOCTRINES AND APPROVED OPERATIVE PROCEDURES OF THE PRESENT TIME, for the Use of Students and Practitioners.
Page 305 - If all the trees in all the woods were men, And each and every blade of grass a pen ; If every leaf on every shrub and tree Turned to a sheet of foolscap ; every sea Were changed to ink, and all earth's living tribes Had nothing else to do but act as scribes, And for ten thousand ages, day and night, The human race should write, and write, and write, Till all the pens and paper were used up, And the huge inkstand was an empty cup, Still would the scribblers clustered round its brink Call for more...
Page 94 - ... by hot coals or with the aid of a spoonful of alcohol lighted by a match ; be careful not to breathe the fumes of the burning sulphur, and when certain the sulphur is burning well, leave the room, close the door, and allow the room to be closed for twenty-four hours.
Page 43 - The knife is searching for disease, the pulleys are dragging back dislocated limbs, nature herself is working out the primal curse which doomed the tenderest of her creatures to the sharpest of her trials, but the fierce extremity of suffering has been steeped in the waters of forgetfulness, and the deepest furrow in the knotted brow of agony has been smoothed forever.
Page 168 - Some such an experience must have led to our custom of taking apple sauce with roast pork, rich goose, and like dishes. The malic acid of ripe apples, either raw or cooked, will neutralize any excess of chalky matter engendered by eating too much meat.
Page 452 - ... had good natural sleep at night and seemed quite restored. Alcohol was positively prohibited, the only substitute allowed being Elixir of Coca and Camellia (PD & Co.), in tablespoonful doses, in which, it is true, there was a small amount of alcohol, which was quite infinitesimal when compared with what he had been using.
Page 40 - ... a number — as yet undetermined — of honorary presidents and secretaries. At the first meeting of each section a president and certain number of honorary presidents shall be elected ; these latter shall conduct the business of the sections in turn with the presidents. On account of the different languages employed, a suitable number of secretaries shall be chosen from among the foreign members. The duties of the foreign secretaries shall be confined to the sittings of the congress. After the...
Page 400 - 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 properly,...
Page 39 - INVITATION TO THE TENTH INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CONGRESS. In accordance with the decision of the Ninth Congress at Washington, the Tenth International Medical Congress will be held at Berlin, from the 4th to the 9th of August, 1890. By the delegates of the German Medical Faculties and the chief Medical Societies of the German Empire, the undersigned have been appointed members of the General Committee of Organization.
Page 168 - This phosphorus is admirably adapted for renewing the essential nervous matter (lethicin) of the brain and spinal cord. It is, perhaps, for the same reason, rudely understood, that old Scandinavian traditions represent the apple as the food of the gods, who, when they felt themselves to be growing feeble and infirm, resorted to the fruit for renewing their powers of mind and body.