The Medical Herald, Volume 10

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Medical Herald Company, 1891

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Page 164 - A wise physician, skilled our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal.
Page 423 - ANATOMIST. Founded upon Gray. By C. HENRI LEONARD, AM, MD, Professor of the Medical and Surgical Diseases of Women and Clinical Gynaecology, in the Detroit College of Medicine.
Page 382 - HORSFORD'S ACID PHOSPHATE Recommended as a restorative in all cases where the nervous system has been reduced below the normal standard, by overwork, as found in brain -workers, professional men, teachers, students, etc. ; in debility from seminal losses, dyspepsia of nervous origin, insomnia where the nervous system suffers. It is readily assimilated and promotes digestion. Dr. Edwin F. Vose, Portland, Me., says: "I have prescribed it for many of the various forms of nervous debility, and it has...
Page 142 - ... received a diploma conferring the degree of doctor of medicine from some legally incorporated medical college in the United States, or a diploma or license conferring the full right to practice all the branches of medicine and surgery in some foreign country, and...
Page 38 - July 14, 1897, provided that an essay deemed by the committee of award to be worthy of the prize shall have been offered. Essays intended for competition may be upon any subject in medicine, but...
Page 297 - I obtained some, and have ordered it regularly for over a year; and have found it excellent in the pain of rheumatism, pneumonia, and cancer; also in the sleeplessness of scarlatina and alcoholism. It has never failed me in procuring sleep, without the disagreeable dreams and after-effects of opium. The dose is 3ss. to 3j. every hour till sleep is procured. I have also found it of much service in cases of tonsillitis, used as a gargle with glycerine and carbolic acid.
Page 270 - THE Mississippi Valley Medical Association will hold its seventeenth annual session at St. Louis, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, October 14, 15 and 16, 1891.
Page 243 - This work will comprise the best and most practical clinical lectures on medicine, surgery, gynaecology, pediatrics, dermatology, laryngology, ophthalmology, and otology, delivered in the leading medical colleges of this country, Great Britain and Canada. These lectures have been reported by competent medical stenographers and thoroughly revised by the professors and lecturers themselves. The object of the work is to furnish the busy practitioner and medical student with the best and most practical...
Page 42 - THIS VISITING LIST is arranged upon a plan best adapted to the most convenient use of all physicians, and embraces a new feature in recording daily visits not found in any other list, consisting of STUB OR HALF LEAVES IN THE FORM OF INSERTS, a glance at which will suffice to show that as the first week's record of visits is completed the next week's record may be made by simply turning over the stub-leaf, without the necessity of rewriting the patients
Page 431 - In its action it resembles chloral in quickness of effect and naturalness of the sleep produced. No marked depressing influence was exerted upon the pulse or respiration rate, though it was noticed that the breathing became slower and the pulse slower and fuller as in natural repose. No disagreeable after-effects. The head was clear and the stomach was unaffected ; the patients generally had an appetite for breakfast.

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