Quarterly Bulletin, Volume 6Office of Publication, 1907 |
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30 hours A. J. STEELE ainhum alkaloid American anatomy arteries attendance Bethesda Hospital BLEYER blood carotid cent CHARLES CHARLES CLAUDE GUTHRIE Chemistry Chief of Clinic Clinical Medicine Clinical Professor common carotid artery course Cyanosis Department of Washington Dermatology diagnosis Diseases of Children Doctor Luedeking Dyspnoea examination Faculty FISCHEL fistula Genito-Urinary given graduates GRINDON Gynecology HARDAWAY heart HENRY HENRY WARE ELIOT Histology hours a week Instructor in Clinical Journal laboratory Louis Medical Society M.D. Clinical Assistants M.D. Department Medical Department Medical School methods microscope Mullanphy Hospital Neurology O'FALLON DISPENSARY Obstetrics operation Ophthalmology Orthopedic Surgery Otology pathology patient Pediatrics physician Physiology picrolonic acid practical present PROF Professor of Clinical Professor of Diseases Saint Louis Saint Louis Medical sections senior class SPENCER student surgical sutures Syphilis TAUSSIG teaching tion Total treatment TUHOLSKE University Hospital Dispensary veins ventricle vessels Washington University Hospital WILLIAM ZAHORSKY
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Page 27 - I began to think whether there might not be a MOTION, AS IT WERE, IN A CIRCLE. Now this I afterwards found to be true; and I finally saw that the blood, forced by the action of the left ventricle into the arteries, was distributed to the body at large, and its several parts, in the same manner as it is sent through the lungs, impelled by the right ventricle into the pulmonary artery, and that it then passed through the veins and along the vena cava, and so round to the left ventricle in the manner...
Page 25 - When I first gave my mind to vivisections, as a means of discovering the motions and uses of the heart, and sought to discover these from actual inspection, and not from the writings of others, I found the task so truly arduous, so full of difficulties, that I was almost tempted to think, with Fracastorius, that the motion of the heart was only to be comprehended by God.
Page 28 - ... it is absolutely necessary to conclude that the blood in the animal body is impelled in a circle, and is in a state of ceaseless motion; that this is the act or function which the heart performs by means of its pulse; and that it is the sole and only end of the motion and contraction of the heart.
Page 104 - He must be able to derive formulae for the sine and cosine of the sum and difference of two angles, of double angles, half angles, etc.
Page 203 - Of the agony it occasioned, I will say nothing. Suffering so great as I underwent cannot be expressed in words, and thus fortunately cannot be recalled. The particular pangs are now forgotten ; but the black whirlwind of emotion, the horror of great darkness, and the sense of desertion by God and man, bordering close upon despair, which swept through my mind and overwhelmed my heart, I can never forget, however gladly I would do so.
Page 105 - During the second year the work should comprise: (1) the reading of from 150 to 200 pages of literature in the form of easy stories and plays; (2) accompanying practice, as before, in the translation into German of easy variations upon the matter read, and also in the off-hand reproduction, sometimes orally and sometimes in writing, of the substance of short and easy selected passages...
Page 26 - THUS far I have spoken of the passage of the blood from the veins into the arteries, and of the manner in which it is transmitted and distributed by the action of the heart; points to which some, moved either by the authority of Galen or Columbus, or the reasonings of others, will give in their adhesion. But what remains to be said upon the quantity and source of the blood which thus passes is of...
Page 104 - CICERO: Any six orations from the following list, but preferably the first six mentioned: The four orations against Catiline, Archias, the Manilian Law, Marcellus, Roscius, Milo, Sestius, Ligarius, the fourteenth Philippic. D. VERGIL: The first six books of the ^Eneid, and so much prosody as relates to accent, versification in general, and dactylic hexameter.
Page 27 - ... getting ruptured through the excessive charge of blood, unless the blood should somehow find its way from the arteries into the veins, and so return to the right side of the heart ; I began to think whether there might not be A MOTION, AS IT WERE, IN A CIRCLE.
Page 28 - ... of the flesh, and then flows by the veins from the circumference on every side to the centre, from the lesser to the greater veins, and is by them finally discharged into the vena cava and right auricle of the heart, and this in such a quantity or in such a flux and reflux thither by the...