The Peninsular Journal of Medicine and the Collateral Sciences, Bind 2

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Alonzo Benjamin Palmer, Edmund Andrews, Zina Pitcher
Doughty, Straw & Company, 1855
Includes the Transactions of various medical societies.

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Side 9 - Holland asserts,2 be that so ably developed by Dr. Prichard, viz., that " all original connate bodily peculiarities tend to become hereditary, while changes in the organic structure of the individual, from external causes during life, end with him, and have no influence on his progeny," it follows that rheumatism, being a hereditary disease, must be in its nature constitutional.
Side 96 - Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted to the -family of the deceased, and that they be spread upon the records of this society.
Side 217 - ... hours the milk and sugar assumed a pasty consistency, and delighted the palates of all present. By constant manipulation and warming, it was reduced to a rich, creamy-looking powder, then exposed to the air to cool, weighed into parcels of a pound each, and by a press, with the force of a ton or two, made to assume the compact form of a tablet, (the size of a small brick,) in which shape, covered with tin foil, it is presented to the public.
Side 463 - ... a good English education, a knowledge of natural philosophy, and the elementary mathematical sciences, including geometry and algebra, and such an acquaintance, at least, with the Latin and Greek languages as will enable them to appreciate the technical language of medicine and read and write prescriptions.
Side 123 - It was repeated morning and evening. It decidedly gave relief to the breathing, soon after each application, and both cases ultimately recovered perfectly. For the suggestion and adoption of this valuable addition to our means of treating this formidable disease, we are indebted, as is well known, to the enterprise of Dr. Horace Green, of New York. The profession, I think, owe to him a large debt of gratitude, for the energy and perseverance manifested in the introduction of this remedy, and I am...
Side 120 - ... a membranaceous or an albuminous exudation. 2. " That the membranaceous concretion, which is found coating the inflamed mucous surface of the parts in croup, is an exudation, — not from the membrane itself, but is secreted by the muciferous glands, which so abundantly stud the larynx and trachea.
Side 118 - ... not danger only, but death in delay. I have never met with an exception to the rule which prescribes the free abstraction of blood in every case of severe idiopathic croup, when seen at an early period, and before the purple lips, and livid countenance, and failing pulse, announce the long continuance of a serious obstacle to the free admission of air into the lungs. Even in very young children local depletion forms, in these cases, but a poor substitute for general bleeding ; for it is not merely...
Side 376 - This uterine membrane (ovisac it may not be termed) contained twenty-two fishes. It is probable that the inner surface of the uterine membrane sent forth a still more delicate membrane which enveloped each fish after the manner that the peritoneum...
Side 391 - gainst all infections, Cures all diseases, coming of all causes ; A month's grief in a day ; a year's in twelve ; And of what age soever, in a month ; Past all the doses of your drugging doctors. I'll undertake withal to fright the plague Out o
Side 216 - To facilitate the evaporation, — by means of blowers and other ingenious apparatus, — a current of air is established between the covers of the pans and the solidifying milk. Connected with "the...

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