The Practitioner, Band 10

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John Brigg, 1873
 

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Seite 155 - The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds; and although many things in nature be sui generis and most irregular, will yet invent parallels and conjugates and relatives, where no such thing is.
Seite 161 - It is unphilosophical to construct a science out of a few of the agencies by which the phenomena are determined, and leave the rest to the routine of practice or the sagacity of conjecture. We either ought not to pretend to scientific forms, or we ought to study all the determining agencies equally, and endeavour, so far as it can be done, to include all of them within the pale of the science ; else we shall infallibly bestow a disproportionate attention upon those which our theory takes into account,...
Seite 186 - The plan, as stated in the above case, consists in giving but very little of solid or fluid food or any kind of drink at a time, and to give these things at regular intervals of from ten to twenty or thirty minutes. All sorts of food may be taken in that way. but during the short period when such a trial is made, it is obvious that the fancies of...
Seite 183 - ... obtained by slowly dissolving, and partially swallowing a lump of borax, the size of a garden pea, or about three or four grains held in the mouth for ten minutes before speaking or singing. This produces a profuse secretion of saliva, or
Seite 161 - There is little chance of making due amends in the superstructure of a theory for the want of sufficient breadth in its foundations...
Seite 292 - ... organic matter to evolve ammonia when heated with hydrated potass. I have two or three times been consulted in the cases of patients lying bed-ridden from rheumatic gout, in whom one or both legs were covered with an eczematous eruption, and the parts on which the exudation from the surface had dried, have been actually frosted with microscopic crystals of urate of soda.
Seite 185 - ... is readily set free, and its peculiar action on the organism obtained more promptly than when either of the other bromides is administered. Chief among these effects is its hypnotic influence ; and hence the bromide of calcium is particularly beneficial in cases of delirium tremens, or in the insomnia resulting from intense mental labor or excitement.
Seite 231 - A method has recently become available by which phosphorus can be given in a form at once active and inoffensive, namely, dissolved in oil or lard, and enclosed in a gelatine capsule ; the dose is about 3^ of a grain, and it may be taken two or three times a day, always after food.
Seite 158 - It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our , dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity, but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages.
Seite 298 - ... epileptiform symptoms, or transitory hemiplegia, or coma, proceeds to consider its prevention and treatment. In diet, he thinks that the present system of urging persons at all weakly, especially children, to eat as much as they can. may have not a little to do in causing the development of many nervous diseases. He is equally opposed to persistence in

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