The Medical Council, Band 13

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1908
 

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Seite 283 - Whereas, Heredity plays a most important part in the transmission of crime, idiocy, and imbecility; Therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, that on and after the passage of this act it shall be compulsory for each and every institution in the State entrusted with the care of confirmed criminals, idiots, rapists, and imbeciles, to appoint upon its staff, in addition to the regular institutional physician, two (2) skilled surgeons of recognized ability, whose duty...
Seite 293 - And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin.
Seite 293 - And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out: and she said, How hast thou broken forth? this breach be upon thee: therefore his name was called Pharez. 30 And afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon his hand: and his name was called Zarah.
Seite 360 - A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle. Things which are equal to each other are equal to anything else. To find the number of square feet in a room you multiply the room by the number of the feet. The product is the result.
Seite 278 - I stood by the open casement, And looked upon the night, And saw the westward-going stars Pass slowly out of sight. Slowly the bright procession Went down the gleaming arch, And my soul discerned the music Of their long triumphal march ; Till the great celestial army, Stretching far beyond the poles, Became the eternal symbol Of the mighty march of souls.
Seite 316 - ... There will be considerable soreness 'for a few days, but the patient is always greatly benefited by the first treatment, if not cured by it, and is always cured by five or six treatments. Where the edges of a fissure are greatly hypertrophied, the negative pole should be applied to cause liquefaction of the dense tissues.
Seite 434 - I do not limit the use of carbolic acid injection to typhoid fever. I have met with phenomenal success with this mode of treatment In reducing temperature in pneumonia and gastritis and have carried cases of acute appendicitis to a sub-acute or chronic form, thereby lessening the danger from infection at the time of operation. In these 138 cases reported here today the ages ranged from three to seventy-eight years. I gave no cold baths, but applied ice bags over abdomen and one bath a day for cleanliness....
Seite 316 - While the negative pole produces hydrogen, is alkaline, dilates blood vessels, thus increases bleeding, causes hypersensitiveness, liquefies and disintegrates tissues ; being an alkaline caustic, the resulting cicatrices are soft and yielding ; it is also a vaso-dilator. Internal hemorrhoids are successfully treated with the electric needle, as follows : Cocainize the hemorrhoid, then introduce a platinum or common cambric needle into it, attached to the positive pole, while the negative pole is...
Seite 237 - The National Volunteer Emergency Service, instituted in 1900, has recently been reorganized by the election of Dr. James Evelyn Pilcher, the distinguished editor of The Military Surgeon, as its Director General, and Dr. F. Elbert Davis, of New York, as its Adjutant General. Its work will be conducted along military lines, the details being worked out in three separate corps, a...
Seite 293 - And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.

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