The Medical Chronicle: A Monthly Record of the Progress of Medical Schince, Volume 14Sherratt & Hughes, 1891 |
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Page 328 - Each essay must bear a motto, and be accompanied by a sealed envelope bearing the same motto outside and the author's name inside.
Page 281 - A group of cases of system-sclerosis of the spinal cord, associated with diffuse collateral degeneration, occurring in enfeebled persons past middle life, and especially in women; studied with particular reference to etiology.
Page 394 - ... the mastoid process, or in the absence of these objective symptoms, when there is a suspicion of inflammation of the mastoid process. 3. When the mastoid process is apparently healthy, but the removal of pus or cholesteatomatous masses through natural channels is impossible, and symptoms dangerous to life manifest themselves. 4. In congestive abscesses and...
Page 41 - ... if this reagent be absent, has led the author to investigate this point anew, and to make his observations on man, and not on dogs, as his predecessors had done. The experiments were planned with great care, and the quantity of albumin removed from the body, both by the urine and the fœces, was estimated.
Page 484 - ... in the individual. Theory has here been closely followed by its practical application in prevention and treatment of disease, whilst the study of bacteriology, which is of such remarkable pre-eminence at the present time, is opening out sources from which may flow results of incalculable importance in their bearing on life and health. That the conclusions arrived at are always to be depended on I doubt, and it seems that scientific zeal may perhaps sometimes outrun discretion. la it too much...
Page 116 - Kiihee and Chittenden from myosin, and Sidney Martin's solution of anthrax albumoses, which after prolonged dialysis still remained alkaline. It may be noted in passing that the boundary line between albumoses and globulins seems to be becoming so indefinite that no great stress need be laid upon the fact that the proteid from the rat's spleen is of the latter class.
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Page 306 - ... jaw, and the anterior pillars of the fauces. (6) Rapid separation of the anterior portion of the tongue from the floor of the mouth.
Page 50 - In primiparae, after a prolonged period of pains of more or less intensity, and with but little dilatation of the os, as well as in the more intense condition of a completely rigid os, where, with extreme contractions, no dilatation whatever occurs, he has given large doses of belladonna with marked effect. He usually prescribes a reliable tincture of belladonna in doses of twenty to thirty minims every hour, or. oftener ; and satisfactory dilatation usually follows the first or second draught.
Page 176 - The chief conclusions which were arrived at were "that it is impossible for chloroform vapor to kill dogs by acting primarily on the heart, and this holds good, no matter in what doses or in what manner the poisoning is induced.