California Medical Journal, Volume 10

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D. MacLean., 1889

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Page 222 - Utitlroleinc is invaluable, supplying as it does; the! true brain-food, and being more easily assimilated by the digestive organs than any other emulsion. The principles upon which this discovery is based have been described in a treatise on "The Digestion and Assimilation of Fats in the Human Body,
Page 309 - ... breast, and have discussed it editorially and otherwise. This summer I have had the question forced upon me practically, as the result of the illness of my wife, necessitating the weaning of our baby and supplying her with some artificial substitute. I have thus given a practical test of Carnrick's Soluble Food and have been perfectly satisfied with the result, as our little one has thriven on that food, I think as perfectly as if the mother had been able to nurse her. Though this has been her...
Page 83 - Children,' medical and surgical, by American, British and Canadian authors, edited by John M. Keating, MD, in four imperial octavo volumes ; to be sold by subscription only. The first volume will be issued early in April, and the subsequent volumes at short intervals. A thorough knowledge of the diseases of children...
Page 352 - This should be painted all over the surface with a camel's hair pencil and allowed to dry on, a second or third coating being applied as soon as the first is dry. If done as soon as the injury is inflicted this treatment will invariably prevent the blackening of the bruised tissue.
Page 74 - With what anguish of mind I remember my childhood, Recalled in the light of a knowledge since gained ; The malarious farm, the wet, fungus-grown wild-wood ; The chills then contracted that since have remained ; The scum-covered...
Page 75 - Just think of it ! Moss on the vessel that lifted The water I drank in the days called to mind ; Ere I knew what professors and scientists gifted In the...
Page 75 - I shudder to think it — I considered that water uncommonly clear, And often at noon, when I went there to drink it, I enjoyed it as much as I now enjoy beer. How ardent I seized it with hands that were grimy ! And quick to the mud-covered bottom it fell ! Then, reeking with nitrates and nitrites, and slimy With matter organic, it rose from the well.
Page 196 - Pennsylvania unless he or she has complied with the provisions of this act, and shall have exhibited to the prothonotary of the court of common pleas of the county in which he or she desires to practice medicine or surgery, a license duly granted to him or her as hereinbefore provided...
Page 446 - Highgate where the old man lay near to die. Foolish carriages ! Not one of them would roll near him (except to splash him with their mud) while he lived; had it not been for the noble-mindedness of Oilman, the Highgate apothecary, he might have died twenty years ago in a hospital or in a ditch.
Page 222 - Diseases the most prominent symptom is emaciation, the result of starvation of the fatty tissues of the body as well as the brain and nerves This tendency to emaciation and loss "of weight is arrested by the regular use of Hydroleine, which may be discontinued when the usual average weight has been permanently regained.

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