The Science and practice of medicine v. 1, Volum 1

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C. Griffin, 1864 - 993 sider
 

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Side 630 - Holds such an enmity with blood of man, That, swift as quicksilver, it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body ; And, with a sudden vigour, it doth posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood...
Side 133 - The days of our years are threescore years and ten; And if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, Yet is their strength labour and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Side 111 - ... dread disease, in which the struggle between soul and body is so gradual, quiet, and solemn, and the result so sure, that day by day, and grain by grain, the mortal part wastes and withers away, so that the spirit grows light and sanguine with its lightening load, and, feeling immortality at hand, deems it but a new term of mortal life — a disease in which death and life are so strangely blended, that death takes the glow and hue of life, and life the gaunt and grisly form of death...
Side 110 - The heat is especially felt in the palms of the hands and soles of the feet. The...
Side 648 - ... of St. James's, which they surround on all sides. It was announced by Dr. Farr, in his Report on the Cholera in England in 1848-49, that, as regarded London, "the elevation of the soil has a more constant relation with the mortality from cholera than any other known element...
Side 742 - For nightcap, if required, A tumbler of grog — (gin, whisky, or brandy, without sugar) — or a glass or two of claret or sherry.
Side 722 - After some failures, he succeeded in producing venereal sores (chancres) in monkeys, by inoculating them with the human virus ; and he found that rabbits, cats, and horses might be similarly infected from the chancres of the monkey. He likewise found that the chancres produced by inoculation became less and less in each animal, until a period at length arrived at which the poison seemed to have lost all its power, and no further sores could be produced ; and he was thus led to believe, that by prolonged...
Side 435 - ... by the end of the second week, or the beginning of the third, the normal temperature is again attained.
Side 231 - It is always to be desired that the people should, as far as possible, know what real precautions they can take against the disease which threatens them, what vigilance is needful with regard to its early symptoms, and what (if any) special arrangements have been made for giving medical assistance within the district. For the purpose of such information printed hand-bills or placards may usefully be employed, and in cases where danger is great...
Side 1 - The objects and powers of your art are alike great and elevated. Your aim is, as far as possible, to alleviate human suffering and lengthen out human existence. Your ambition is to gladden as well as to prolong the course of human life, by warding off disease as the greatest of mortal evils, and restoring health, and even, at times, reason itself, as the greatest of mortal blessings.

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