The Cincinnati Lancet & Observer, Volume 5; Volume 23

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E.B. Stevens, 1862
 

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Page 413 - Resolved ; That the Governor of the State, be, and he is hereby requested to forward to the President of the United States, an authenticated Copy of the foregoing Preamble and Resolutions Adopted by the Senate, Dec 27"
Page 348 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north-wind's breath, And stars to set — but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death...
Page 348 - Resolved, That the thanks of this Society are due, and are hereby tendered, to Prof.
Page 258 - To the true physician there is an inexpressible sanctity in the sick chamber. At its threshold the more human passions quit their hold on his heart. Love there would be profanation; even the grief permitted to others he must put aside. He must enter that room — a calm intelligence. He is disabled for his mission if he suffer aught to obscure the keen quiet glance of his science. Age or youth, beauty or deformity, innocence or guilt, merge their distinctions in one common attribute,-human suffering...
Page 559 - An act to establish circuit courts of appeals and to define and regulate in certain cases the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States, and for other purposes...
Page 681 - That from and after the passing of this act no person shall receive the appointment of assistant surgeon in the Army of the United States unless he shall have been examined and approved by an army medical board, to consist of not less than three surgeons or assistant surgeons, who shall be designated for that purpose by the Secretary of War...
Page 272 - The sin of self-pollution is one of the most destructive evils ever practised by fallen man. In many respects it is several degrees worse than common whoredom, and has in its train more awful consequences. It excites the powers of nature to undue action, and produces violent secretions, which necessarily and speedily exhaust the vital principle and energy- hence the muscles...
Page 667 - Committee reported the following preamble and resolutions, which were unanimously adopted : Whereas, it has pleased Almighty God to remove from our midst our worthy friend and professional brother, Dr.
Page 152 - Just as little as we can now admit that a taenia can arise out of saburral mucus, or that out of the residue of the decomposition of animal or vegetable matter an infusorial animalcule, a fungus, or an alga, can be formed, equally little are we disposed to concede either in physiological or pathological histology, that a new cell can build itself up out of any non-cellular substance. Where a cell arises, there a cell must have previously existed (omnis cellula e cellula), just as an animal can spring...
Page 312 - The limb is first shaved and slightly oiled ; a piece of old coarse washed muslin is next selected, of a size so that when folded about four thicknesses it is wide enough to envelop more than half of the circumference of the limb, and long enough to extend from a little below the under surface of the knee to about five inches below the heel. The solution of plaster is then to be prepared. Fine, welldried white plaster had better be selected, and before using, a small portion should be mixed with...

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