Cyclop©Œdia of the Diseases of Children: Medical and Surgical

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John Marie Keating
Lippincott, 1889

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Page 105 - Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else, why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest?
Page 712 - ... the smallpox was always present, filling the churchyards with corpses, tormenting with constant fears all whom it had not yet stricken, leaving on those whose lives it spared the hideous traces of its power, turning the babe into a changeling at which the mother shuddered, and making the eyes and cheeks of the betrothed maiden objects of horror to the lover.
Page 793 - They, too, vary in ¡size from that of a pin's head to that of a pea, and project but little over the surface of the membrane, and are therefore sometimes scarcely visible.
Page 476 - There are so many determining factors in the problem, however, that it is impossible to lay down any general rule as to the comparative economy of the use of water-power.
Page 400 - If the State, for reasons of public policy, determines that all children shall be compulsorily educated from their earliest years, it should certainly afford the means by which this may be least injuriously and most effectually carried out, by providing food and physical training as well as mental education for every pauper child attending an elementary school.
Page 670 - This is one of the most common, as well as one of the most important machine tools, and one which can be made to serve for a wide variety of operations.
Page 474 - Dissolve chloride of lime of the best quality*- in pure -water, in the proportion of six ounces to the gallon. Use one quart of this solution for the disinfection of each discharge in cholera, typhoid fever...
Page 572 - Norway, where the oldest parish registers extant date from 1623, it was only towards the end of the seventeenth century and in the first half of the eighteenth...
Page 338 - Children will form at least a third of all your patients, and so serious are their diseases, that one child in five dies within a year after birth, and one in three before the completion of the fifth year.
Page 43 - The femur is developed by five centres: one for the shaft, one for each extremity, and one for each trochanter. Of all the long bones, except the clavicle, it...

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