An appeal to the medical profession, on the utility of the improved patent syringe, with directions for its several uses, Volume 53 |
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Page 414 - Alas ! What an inconsiderable creature am I in this prodigious ocean of waters ! My existence is of no concern to the universe ; I am reduced to a kind of nothing, and am less than the least of the works of God.
Page 414 - The drop, says the fable, lay a great while hardening in the shell, until by degrees it was ripened into a pearl, which falling into the hands of a diver, after a long series of adventures, is at present that famous pearl which is fixed on the top of the Persian diadem.
Page 347 - Journals; and there never existed any work to which the Faculty in " EUROPE and AMERICA were nnder deeper obligations than to the " Medical and Physical Journal of London, now forming a long, but an
Page 266 - I only find that, during three months, five, and at length ten, thousand persons died each day at Constantinople ; that many cities of the East were left vacant; and that in several districts of Italy the harvest and the vintage withered on the ground.
Page 141 - We have no longer faith in miracles and relics, and therefore with the same fury run after recipes and physicians. The same money which three hundred years ago was given for the health of the soul is now given for the health of the body, and by the same sort of people — women and half-witted men. In the countries where they have shrines and images...
Page 259 - Journal? ; and there never existed any work, to which the Faculty, in Europe and America, were under deeper obligations, than to the Medical aud Physical Journal of London, now forming a long, but an invaluable, serles.-KUSH . ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS, SELECT OBSERVATIONS, &c.
Page 26 - ... At the end of two years she perceived a small moveable swelling in her left groin, which she allowed to increase for twelve months, when she came to Edinburgh, and, on consulting a surgeon, he opened it with a lancet, and discharged a large quantity of thin matter. On examination this was a lumbar abscess, which she ascribed to a fall on her back three years previously. The evacuation of this fluid did not in the least diminish the magnitude of the abdomen; and she imagined she could distinguish...
Page 215 - The tribunals neither ought, nor have the power to exact from a physician the revelation of a secret confided to him in consideration of his office : at all events he may, and ought to refuse.
Page 85 - For many fortunate discoveries in medicine, and for the detection of numerous errors, the world is indebted to the rapid circulation of Monthly Journals; and there never existed any work, to which the Faculty, in Europe and America, were under deeper obligations, than to the Medical and Physical Journal of London, now forming a lonj, but an invaluable, series.— UUSH.
Page 488 - ... formed by minute white filaments of lymph, crossing each other in various directions, among which small red blood-vessels were visible. There was no unusual vascularity of the mucous membrane in the neighbourhood, nor any alteration of its natural colour ; so that these little spots would probably have escaped our notice, had we not been habitually minute in our examinations. In a few instances, however, we were led to them by observing a peculiar condition of the peritoneal coat, which seemed...