Canadian Practitioner, Volume 9Bryant Press, 1884 |
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Page 192 - What is it to be a gentleman? Is it to have lofty aims, to lead a pure life, to keep your honour virgin; to have the esteem of your fellow-citizens, and the love of your fireside; to bear good fortune meekly; to suffer evil with constancy ; and through evil or good to maintain truth always?
Page 126 - A Treatise on Pharmacy : designed as a Text-book for the Student, and as a Guide for the Physician and Pharmaceutist. With many Formulae and Prescriptions.
Page 258 - A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE MEDICAL AND SURGICAL USES OF ELECTRICITY; including Localized and General Faradization ; Localized and Central Galvanization ; Electrolysis and Galvano-Cautery.
Page 227 - Sexual Neurasthenia (Nervous Exhaustion). Its Hygiene, Causes, Symptoms and Treatment, with a chapter on Diet for the Nervous.
Page 257 - By C. Henri Leonard, MA, MD, Professor of the Medical and Surgical Diseases of Women, Detroit College of Medicine.
Page 84 - I think there is abundant evidence that, while these causes are always requisite for the development of surgical septicaemia, puerperal fever may be a very epidemic when these causes are wholly wanting.* In the early months of 1873 puerperal fever prevailed in the best parts of the city, and in that class of society possessed of abundant means and living under as good sanitary conditions as are possible in any large city, to a degree and extent here unknown for the previous twenty-five years. The...
Page 45 - ... of clarified honey, and shaken together until the sides of the containing vessel are well greased. A solution, consisting of eighty grains of chlorate of potassium in sufficient water to make four fluid ounces is then gradually added, the shaking being continued. Without due care in the preparation of this solution the resin will be precipitated.
Page 63 - ' How much a man is like old shoes ! For instance : both a soul may lose ; Both have been tanned ; both are made tight By cobblers ; both get left and right ; Both need a mate to be complete, And both are made to go on feet ; They both need heeling, oft are sold, And both in time all turn to mold.
Page 83 - Can it be true that the process necessary for the birth of the human race is always attended with the development of a deadly poison whose malignant effects must inevitably prevent the spontaneous and kindly healing of such little traumatisms as always result from the process, and that, therefore, it is the duty of the accoucheur to take preventive measures of the character proposed ? Does every parturient woman, in performing the function of maternity, like the scorpion,* that carries in its tail...