Summary of the Transactions of the College of Physicians of PhiladelphiaWaverly Press, 1856 |
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66 chest 66 liver 66 lungs 66 stomach abdomen Adults Almond Street appeared Asphyxia attack August benzoic acid bilious black vomit bladder bleeding blood brain 66 bronchi calomel cause cavity cent child cholera College color commencement continued convulsions diarrhoea died discharge disease doses Drake dysentery epidemic epigastrium F. G. SMITH fluid fracture Front Street gangrene Gegan grains head heart hemorrhage II.-NEW SERIES infected inflammation July June labor larynx Lombard Street malignant Mandarin Mania medicine MEIGS membrane mercury Minors months nausea night number of deaths occurred pain patient Penn Street Pennsylvania Hospital peritoneum peritonitis Philadelphia physicians poison present puerperal pulse quinia reported Sept sick skin South Street wharf spine stillborn stomach and bowels Street 66 Swanson Street symptoms TABLE OF MORTALITY tion tongue total mortality treatment tumor typhus urine uterus vessel vomiting yellow fever
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Page 289 - THE MEDICAL FORMULARY: being a Collection of Prescriptions, derived from the writings and practice of many of the most eminent physicians of America and Europe. Together with the usual Dietetic Preparations and Antidotes for Poisons. To which is added an Appendix, on the Endermic u-se of Medicines, and on the use of Ether and Chloroform.
Page 289 - A UNIVERSAL FORMULARY, containing the methods of Preparing and Administering Officinal and other Medicines. The whole adapted to Physicians and Pharmaceutists.
Page 27 - For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us : for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you ; neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day that we might not be chargeable to any of you ; not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
Page 289 - The whole accompanied by a few brief , pharmaceutical and medical observations. By BENJAMIN ELLIS, MD, late Professor of Materia Medica and Pharmacy, in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy.
Page 32 - Up the straits he will see the evening star dancing on the ruffled surface, and the lagging schooner flapping its loose sails in the fitful land breeze; while the milky way — DEATH'S PATH of the Red Man — will dimly appear in the waters before him. Behind, in the street, a lively group of Canadian French, of every shade of color between white and red, will gossip and shrug their shoulders; on one side he will hear the uproar of a lodge of drunken Chippewas, with the screams, of women and children,...
Page 242 - ... Fever was prevailing. 3. We have shown that no vessel that arrived here from any infected port, whether in South America or the West Indies, brought any cases of Yellow Fever, had any on them whilst they were here, or gave rise to any cases previous to those which must have originated in this city. 4. That within a very few days after the occurrence of the first cases, others were seen in different and remote places, having no sort of connection or intercommunication that we were able to trace...
Page 32 - ... mantle of night warns the beholder to depart for the village, while he may yet make his way along a narrow and rocky path, beset with tufts of prickly juniper. Having refreshed himself for an hour, he may stroll out upon the beach, and listen to the serenade of the waters. Wave after wave will break at his feet, over the white pebbles, and return as limpid as it came.
Page 305 - She complained of great pain before each evacuation ; opiate enemata checked this, and on the 2d she bad but one stool, perfectly natural in color, and of the consistence ordinarily produced by a dose of castor oil. August 3d. Pulse somewhat slower — about 120 ; dressed the wound in the abdomen ; did not think it looked quite so well ; some discharge from one of the suture openings; was suffering from great uneasiness of the bowels, they having been opened several times ; before each movement considerable...
Page 412 - ... College, is interesting, as having been one of difficult labor, in which an unusual method of delivery was attempted and entirely succeeded. The case to which I refer was one of shoulder presentation, and the treatment consisted in bringing the head of the child to the superior strait, instead of, as is almost universally recommended, making version by the feet. My attention had been called to this plan of treatment^ for similar cases .by a pamphlet of Dr. Wright, of Cincinnati, in which he advocates...
Page 305 - I was agreeably surprised to find that her skin had regained its natural temperature, that her strength had improved, and that she was altogether better than on the previous day. There was no pain on pressure of the abdomen, but still there was considerable tympanites, and the pulse continued at 135. On the first of August the vomiting continued, but only occasionally. On the 2d, vomiting had ceased entirely. I watched with great anxiety for a diminution in the frequency of the pulse, as indicating...