Mississippi Valley Medical Monthly, Volume 6

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1886

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Page 182 - A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF DISEASES OF THE HEART. Second edition, enlarged. In one octavo volume of 550 pages. Cloth, $4.
Page 504 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea : a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below:" so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Page 236 - 1. Alcohol is not shown to have a definite food value by any of the usual methods of chemical analysis or physiological investigation. " 2. Its use as a medicine is chiefly that of a cardiac stimulant, and often admits of substitution. " 3. As a medicine, it is not well fitted for self-prescription by the laity, and the medical profession is not accountable for such administration, or for the enormous...
Page 433 - A REFERENCE HANDBOOK OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES. Embracing the Entire Range of Scientific and Practical Medicine and Allied Science. By Various Writers.
Page 175 - ... every additional fraction of more than half that number: Provided, however, that the number of delegates for any particular State, Territory, county, city, or town shall not exceed the ratio of one in ten of the resident physicians who may have signed the Code of Ethics of the Association.
Page 382 - Soluble Food," and had the satisfaction of having it retained, and at last accounts the child was doing nicely. I am inclined to think this food is worthy of attention on the part of the profession. It recommends itself in that it contains caseine, rendered soluble by pancreatine, starch converted into dextrine and maltose. Hence it requires but little preparation, and that is so simple, mistakes cannot occur. It requires no addition of milk.

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