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... fabric should be warm , and the underwear particularly thick , though soft and fluffy , in climates where the temperature - changes are so sudden and extreme as this - all to be supported from the shoulders 54 WILLIAM WARREN POTTER ,
... fabric should be warm , and the underwear particularly thick , though soft and fluffy , in climates where the temperature - changes are so sudden and extreme as this - all to be supported from the shoulders 54 WILLIAM WARREN POTTER ,
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... temperature , and presence of sunshine . First , as to humidity . It is admitted on all hands that a climate to be favorable for recovery from incipient phthisis must be dry . The vast amount of water passing into the atmosphere in the ...
... temperature , and presence of sunshine . First , as to humidity . It is admitted on all hands that a climate to be favorable for recovery from incipient phthisis must be dry . The vast amount of water passing into the atmosphere in the ...
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... Temperature , again , must necessarily exert a con- siderable influence on the absolute dryness of the air , since the air at a temperature of zero , F. , can only carry about half a grain of moisture to the cubic foot , while at 100 ...
... Temperature , again , must necessarily exert a con- siderable influence on the absolute dryness of the air , since the air at a temperature of zero , F. , can only carry about half a grain of moisture to the cubic foot , while at 100 ...
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... temperature from day to day , or at different hours of the day , under decreased pressure in a dry atmosphere , than they are at the sea - coast , with a greater degree of humidity . As far as climate is concerned , pressure is ...
... temperature from day to day , or at different hours of the day , under decreased pressure in a dry atmosphere , than they are at the sea - coast , with a greater degree of humidity . As far as climate is concerned , pressure is ...
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... temperature ; and Draper , of England , has shown that twice as much carbonic acid gas is exhaled at 68 ° F. as at 106 ° F. In a similar way the exhalation of vapor is increased by a low temper- ature , and this is an admirable method ...
... temperature ; and Draper , of England , has shown that twice as much carbonic acid gas is exhaled at 68 ° F. as at 106 ° F. In a similar way the exhalation of vapor is increased by a low temper- ature , and this is an admirable method ...
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Page 156 - There was slight anaesthesia during the first three days, which gradually wore off, and had entirely disappeared at the end of the first or beginning of the second week.
Page 390 - A person duly authorized to practice physic or surgery, or a professional or registered nurse, shall not be allowed to disclose any information which he acquired in attending a patient in a professional capacity, and which was necessary to enable him to act in that capacity...
Page 60 - That by the destruction of this matter on its issue from the body,, by means of proper chemicals or otherwise — seconded by good sanitary conditions, — there is reason to hope that we may, eventually, and possibly at no very distant time, rid ourselves entirely of this fatal scourge.
Page 461 - The future and its viewless things — That undiscovered mystery • Which one who feels death's winnowing wings Must needs read clearer, sure, than he! Bring none of these; but let me be, While all around in silence lies...
Page 14 - To Establish Boards of Medical Examiners of the State of New York for the Examination and licensing of Practitioners of Medicine and Surgery...
Page 12 - ... with but few exceptions, in their annual addresses have laid emphasis upon the importance of some radical change in the prevailing system. There has been scarcely a year from 1824 down to the present, that the question has not come up in some form or another, either in debate or in formal address, so that year by year the note of warning has been sounded on the subject of separating the teaching and licensing powers. More definite shape, however, was given to the matter some seven or more years...
Page 552 - State medical library. The state medical library shall be a part of the New York state library under the same government and regulations and shall be open for consultation to every citizen of the state at all hours when the state library is open and shall be available for borrowing books to every accredited physician residing in the state of New York, who shall conform to the rules made by the regents for insuring proper protection and the largest usefulness to the people of the said medical library.
Page 211 - Early diagnosis is of the greatest importance in reference to treatment and result. 1. Find with tip of finger — using firm pressure — point of sensitiveness (exact point of greatest sensitiveness) ; it will be, in an adult, one and a half to two inches inside the right anterior superior spinous process of the ilium, on a line drawn from that process to the umbilicus ; in children, according to...
Page 60 - That the tuberculous matter itself is (or includes) the specific morbific matter of the disease, and constitutes the material by which phthisis is propagated from one person to another, and disseminated through society.
Page 266 - ... 2. In mild cases of the disease in which the pyrexia has not been of high grade, and in which perforation occurs at the end of the third week, or later when the stage of convalesence is fully pronounced, laparotomy may be performed.