The London Medical Recorder: A Monthly Review of the Progress of the Medical Sciences at Home and Abroad. Volume I-[IV, No. 5, 1888-May 1891].W. H. Allen & Company, 1850 |
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Page 386 - And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Page 487 - On the third and fourth day after delivery the mammae became flaccid. On opening the bodies curdled milk was found on the surface of the intestines, a milky serous fluid in the hypogastrium, a similar fluid was found in the thorax of certain women, and when the lungs were divided they discharged a milky or putrid lymph.
Page 528 - The following gentlemen, having undergone the necessary examinations for the diploma, were admitted Members of the College at...
Page 488 - London in the years 1760, 1768, and 1770, to such an extent that in some lying-in institutions nearly all the patients died. Of the Edinburgh Infirmary in 1773 it is stated that ' almost every woman, as soon as she was delivered, or perhaps about twenty-four hours after, was seized with it, and all of them died, though every method was used to cure the disorder.
Page 247 - A grooved director, slightly curved, and small enough to pass readily through the stricture, is next introduced, and confided to one of the assistants. The surgeon, sitting or kneeling on one knee, now makes an incision in the middle line of the perineum, or penis, wherever the stricture is seated. It should be about an inch or...
Page 44 - Merrill, good and lawful men, who, being charged and sworn to inquire for the Commonwealth, when, how, and by what means, the said dead man came to his death, upon their oaths do say : — That they all have been demonstrated to be parts of one and the same person. — That these parts of the human frame have been identified and proved to be the remains and parts of the dead body and limbs of Dr. George Parkman, late a citizen of said Boston, aged about sixty years.
Page 487 - Female*, p. 6. surrounding the kidneys. Sometimes also a thick white cheesy matter was met with. When the lungs were gorged with blood, or inflamed, or emphysematous, an effusion of serum was found in each side of the chest. We did not observe the...
Page 168 - ... extraordinary power in removing congestion by its action upon the nerves and circulation. This application ought to be continued daily until the disease is removed ; relief will be experienced on the very first application, and frequently there will be a total removal of the disease after the second or third. This of course depends upon the severity of the case. This embrocation when rubbed, never produces excoriation if the skin is not broken. The manner of using it for toothache, is by putting...
Page 405 - ... covered up close in bed with additional clothes, the curtains are drawn round the bed and pinned together, every crevice in the windows and door is stopped close, not excepting even the keyhole, the windows are guarded not only with shutters and curtains, but even with blankets, the more effectually to exclude the fresh air, and the good woman is not suffered to put her arm, or even her nose, out of bed, for fear of catching cold.
Page 398 - The trunk of the profunda was distended in the same way as that of the femoral veins; but the saphena and its branches were empty and healthy. The substance filling the external iliac and common iliac portions of the vein was like the laminated coagulum of an aneurismal sac, — at least with a very slight...