Canada Lancet, Volume 7

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Lancet Publishing Company, 1875

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Page 210 - Prevent friends from crowding around the patient and excluding fresh air ; also, from trying to give stimulants before the patient can swallow. The first causes suffocation ; the second, fatal choking. Do not gire up too soon. You are working for life. Any time within two hours you may be on the very threshold of success without there being any sign of it.
Page 210 - Place the patient on the ground face downward, and, maintaining all the while your position astride the body, grasp the points of the shoulders by the clothing; or, if the body is naked, thrust your fingers into the armpits, clasping your thumbs over...
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Page 197 - Any person who has invented or discovered any new or useful art, machine, manufacture or composition of matter, or any new...
Page 214 - Let atoms attract ; and their contact begat light, heat, and electricity. 4. And the Unconditioned differentiated the atoms, each after its kind; and their combinations begat rock, air, and water. 5. And there went out a spirit of evolution from the Unconditioned, and, working in protoplasm by accretion and absorption, produced the organic cell. 6. And cell, by nutrition, evolved primordial germ, and germ developed protogene, and protogene begat eozoon, and eozoon begat monad, and monad hegat animalcule.
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Page 31 - My first duty is to thank you for the honor you have conferred upon me in electing me to preside over this meeting.
Page 27 - Many physicians of extensive experience are destitute of the ability of searching out and understanding the moral causes of disease ; they can not read the book of the heart, and yet it is in this book that are inscribed, day by day, and hour by hour, all the griefs, and all the miseries, and all the vanities, and all the fears, and all the joys, and all the hopes of Man, and in which will be found the most...
Page 214 - ... 16. And the what-is-it went into the land of Nod, and took him a wife of the longimanous gibbons. 17. And in process of the cosmic period, were born unto them and their children, the anthropomorphic primordial types. 1 8. The homunculus, the prognathus, the troglodyte, the autochthon, the terragen — these are the generations of primeval man.
Page 214 - Now these are the generations of the higher vertebrata, in the cosmic period that the Unknowable evoluted the bipedal mammalia. " 12. And every man of the earth, while he was yet a monkey, and the horse, while he was a hipparion, and the hipparion, before he was an oredon.

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