The Medical Age, Volume 5.E. G. Swift, 1887 |
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... able pain . The feet are unbound about once a month . The suffering is usually quite severe ; at night the little girl will lie with her legs across the edge of the bed - stead , letting the feet hang down so as to benumb them . She ...
... able pain . The feet are unbound about once a month . The suffering is usually quite severe ; at night the little girl will lie with her legs across the edge of the bed - stead , letting the feet hang down so as to benumb them . She ...
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... able to pay any one - real objects of charity - though I will go to see the child , and , in some cases , the wife , of a man who has money to spend for whiskey , tobacco , fine clothes , and fast horses , but no money for me . But the ...
... able to pay any one - real objects of charity - though I will go to see the child , and , in some cases , the wife , of a man who has money to spend for whiskey , tobacco , fine clothes , and fast horses , but no money for me . But the ...
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... the smallest bougie and in serted into one of his nostrils , and I was able to reach the posterior portion of the passage , the act causing him to discharge a great quantity of pus and some blood . I then took two THE MEDICAL 15 AGE .
... the smallest bougie and in serted into one of his nostrils , and I was able to reach the posterior portion of the passage , the act causing him to discharge a great quantity of pus and some blood . I then took two THE MEDICAL 15 AGE .
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... able case of resuscitation from apparent death by the hypodermic injection of a one per - cent . solution of nitro - glycerin is reported . The pa- tient is said to have been pulseless , and rigor mortis is reported to have already set ...
... able case of resuscitation from apparent death by the hypodermic injection of a one per - cent . solution of nitro - glycerin is reported . The pa- tient is said to have been pulseless , and rigor mortis is reported to have already set ...
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... able to trace the track of the bullet down into the femoral canal below the external iliac and femoral artery , by a ragged opening in the muscle , but its course afterwards is a matter of great uncertainty . The abdominal cavity was ...
... able to trace the track of the bullet down into the femoral canal below the external iliac and femoral artery , by a ragged opening in the muscle , but its course afterwards is a matter of great uncertainty . The abdominal cavity was ...
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Page 268 - And I sit and think, when the sunset's gold Is flushing river and hill and shore, I shall one day stand by the water cold And list for the sound of the boatman's oar ; I shall watch for a gleam of the flapping sail, I shall hear the boat as it gains the strand, I shall pass from sight with the boatman pale To the better shore of the...
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Page 416 - ... than increases the intensity of the pyrexia. (14) As the oxidation of alcohol necessarily involves the formation of water and limits the destruction of tissue, its action in fever tends to restore the normal processes of heat-production, in which the formation of water plays an important part. (15) The great objects in the treatment of fever itself are to limit and reduce the pyrexia by direct and indirect means ; to limit and repair destruction and degeneration of tissues and organs by alimentation;...
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Page 178 - In the stomach starch is changed fto cane sugar and cane sugar to .sugar cane. The olfactory nerve enters the cavity of the orbit and is developed into the special sense of hearing. The growth of a tooth begins in the back of the mouth and extends to the stomach.