Transactions of the Luzerne County Medidcal Society, Volumes 7-9Luzerne County Medical Siociety., 1900 |
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Page 158 - Guid faith he mauna fa' that. For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and a' that ; The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher rank than a that. Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that ; That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that. For a
Page 98 - The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Page 178 - This decrease was due to the general vaccination of the island, which was concluded June 30 of that year ; 860,000 vaccinations were performed under the direction of the chief surgeon of the department during the four months preceding this date. All the deaths reported in 1899 from small-pox, except one, occurred prior to the day on which the work was concluded. At the rate of 242 for the first six months the annual deaths would have been practically the same as in the preceding three years. During...
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Page 179 - That the governor. superintendent of public instruction, and the president of the state board of education shall constitute a board of geological survey. They shall control and supervise the continuance and completion of the geological survey of the state...
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Page 176 - ... makes vaccination obligatory in the first year of life and revaccination also obligatory at the tenth year. What was the result? With a population of 50,000,000, having in 1871 lost 143,000 lives by smallpox, she found by her law of 1874 the mortality diminished so rapidly that today the disease numbers only 116 victims a year. These cases, moreover, occur almost exclusively in towns on her frontier. If it were true that a good vaccination does not protect...
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Page 181 - Camden during the past six weeks. There has been a long period of dry weather with high winds, so that tetanus germs, which have their normal habitat in the earth dust, dirt of stables, etc., have been constantly distributed in the atmosphere. It is noticeable in all the cases, after careful examination as to the cause, that the wound had been exposed by the scab being knocked off or removed, or else the arm had been injured and infection resulted; frequently children scratched the vaccinated area...
Page 100 - It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for, if treated, the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.