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Seite 721 - MD, FRCPED., Lecturer on the Principles and Practice of Medicine, and on Practical Medicine and Medical Diagnosis, in the Extra-Academical School of Medicine, Edinburgh ; Assistant Physician, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
Seite 887 - ... other organic changes, must be considered as the effect rather than the cause of the disease, in whatever degree these organic changes may be the cause of death. Angina pectoris is most frequent at the meridian of life and beyond it ; it may occur in adolescence, but it is very rare at that period. It is much more frequent in the male than in the female. Out of one hundred cases, seventy were upwards of fifty years of age, and seventy-nine were males. It is remarkably under the influence of mental...
Seite 638 - HANDBOOK ON DISEASES OF THE SKIN. With especial reference to Diagnosis and Treatment. By ROBERT LIVEING, MA and MD, Cantab., FRCP Lond., etc., Physician to the Department for Diseases of the Skin at the Middlesex Hospital, etc.
Seite 965 - There is as yet no sign discovered by which we can positively say that the dangerous disorganization of the muscular fibres of the heart is in progress. We may, however, suspect it, if the signs of weak action of the heart — feeble impulse and ill-defined sounds — coexist with oppression, with a tendency to coldness of the extremities, with a pulse permanently slow or permanently frequent and irregular, and be met with in a person who is the subject of gout or of a wasting disease, or is very...
Seite 955 - Massachusetts Volunteers he served in Virginia, North and South Carolina, and was on special duty in charge of the Hospital Steamer " Cosmopolitan" in the Department of the South. Assigned to duty in this office July 22, 1864, he was Curator of the Army Medical' Museum, and in charge of the Division of Surgical Records until his death. He was editor of the Richmond Medical • Journal for three years, member of the leading medical societies of America and corres!
Seite 917 - ATLAS OF SKIN DISEASES. By LOUIS A. DUHRING, MD, Professor of Skin Diseases in the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania ; Dermatologist to the Philadelphia Hospital ; Consulting Physician to the Dispensary for Skin Diseases, Philadelphia; Author of "Diseases of the Skin,
Seite 1103 - Practical Gynaecology : a Handbook of the Diseases of Women. By HEYWOOD SMITH, MD, Physician to the Hospital for Women and to the British Lying-in Hospital. With Engravings. Crown 8vo, 5s.
Seite 593 - The cause has certainly not yet been discovered. My own strong impression is, that the secret will be found to be connected with the theory which has been much canvassed in the present day, the successive changes of type or constitution of epidemic diseases. But as this is a favourite theory of my own, I shall not here insist on it further than by warning all inquirers into the origin of zymotic diseases in foul miasms, that they run great risk of ascribing to these, and the removal of these, fluctuations...
Seite 712 - Such a statement indicates either an imperfect method of treatment, or that in Germany epilepsy is more intractable than in this country, as a " careful discrimination " of the above cases affords a " sure prospect of improvement " and a reasonable one of recovery. That a critical spirit and healthy scepticism should exist regarding the vague and imperfect accounts of the efficacy of various drugs in disease is, I believe, necessary to arrive at the truth ; at the same time, we must not refuse to...
Seite 588 - The surrounding of the sick with nurses and attendants who are themselves non-conductors or incapable of being affected, inasmuch as they are known to be protected against the disease by having already passed through cow-pox or small-pox.

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