The Southern Dental Journal, Volume 9

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R.A. Holliday, 1890
 

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Page 94 - The power of the State to provide for the general welfare of its people authorizes it to prescribe all such regulations as, in its judgment, will secure or tend to secure them against the consequences of ignorance and incapacity as well as of deception and fraud.
Page 80 - The editorial committee shall decide whether — and to what extent — these written contributions shall be included in the printed transactions of the congress. The members who have taken part in the discussions will be requested to hand over to the secretaries, before the end of the day, in writing, the substance of their remarks.
Page 279 - MEDICAL DICTIONARY: Including all the words and phrases used in Medicine, with their proper Pronunciation and Definitions, based on Recent Medical Literature. By George M. Gould, BA, MD, Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Philadelphia Hospital, etc.
Page 111 - The anesthetic should never, under any circumstances, be pushed till the respiration stops; but when once the cornea is insensitive the patient should be kept gently under by occasional inhalations, and not be allowed to come out and renew the stage of struggling and resistance.
Page 458 - Resolved, That the president of this association appoint a committee...
Page 110 - ... apparatus is not essential, and ought not to be used, as, being made to fit the face, it must tend to produce a certain amount of asphyxia. Moreover, it is apt to take up part of the attention which is required elsewhere. In short, no matter how it is made, it introduces an element of danger into the administration. A convenient form of inhaler is an open cone or cap with a little absorbent cotton inside at the apex.
Page 84 - 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 110 - To ensure absolute freedom of respiration, tight clothing of every kind, either on the neck, chest, or abdomen, is to be strictly avoided ; and no assistants or bystanders should be allowed to exert pressure on any part of the patient's thorax or abdomen, even though the patient be struggling violently. If struggling does occur, it is always possible to hold the patient down by pressure on the shoulders, pelvis, or legs, without doing anything which can by any possibility interfere with the free...
Page 40 - Anaesthesia should be entrusted to experienced administrators only. 7. Many of the fashionable efforts to resuscitate patients are not only useless but harmful. 8. The minimum amount of force should be employed to restrain the muscular movements of the patient. 9. Mixed narcosis is often advisable for prolonged operations.
Page 209 - For the dyspepsia •will be visited upon the children to the third and fourth generations of them that eat pie ; and long life and vigor upon those that live prudently and keep the laws of health.

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