Summary of the Transactions of the College of Physicians of PhiladelphiaWaverly Press, 1853 |
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66 stomach abdomen abscess acid Adult appeared arteries attack attended auscultation blood brain 66 calomel canal cancerous cause cavity cells cent chest Children chloroform Cholera cod-liver oil College color compress condition Congestion continued cornea cough discharged disease doses dysentery dyspnoea effects Erysipelas examination fever fractures friends gall-bladder glands grains Hartshorne heart hemorrhage I.-NEW SERIES improved inches inflammation injection insane intestine ISAAC PARRISH kidneys labor larynx laudanum lemon-juice less liver lungs mammæ Mania medicine Meigs membrane Minor Monomania months mortality mucous natural number of deaths observed occurred opium pain Parrish patient Pennsylvania Hospital percussion perforation peritoneum Philadelphia phlebitis physician pneumonia present prison puerperal pulse pylorus quarter QUARTER-Continued remarked remedy respiration result rheumatism Scrofula sick slight smallpox splint stomach and bowels suffering symptoms tenesmus tion Total treatment tumor ulcer urine uterus villi vomiting
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