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Page 395 - Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
Page 351 - To the Medical Profession : The various medical associations and the medical profession will be glad to learn that Dr. John S. Billings, Surgeon US Army has consented to take charge of the Report on the Mortality and Vital Statistics of the United States as returned by the Eleventh Census. As the United...
Page 351 - ... for the purpose of ascertaining the actual movement of population, our census affords the only opportunity of obtaining near an approximate estimate of the birth and death rates of much the larger part of the country, which is entirely unprovided with any satisfactory system of state and municipal registration. In view of this, the Census Office, during the month of May this year, will Issue to the medical profession throughout the country
Page 365 - Multiply the last two figures of the specific gravity of the urine by the number of ounces voided in twenty-four hours, and add 10 per cent, to the product.
Page 457 - How far should Health Authorities be permitted to apply known Preventive Measures for the Control of Diphtheria. 9. Compulsory Vaccination. 10. Sanitation of Asylums, Prisons, Jails, and other Eleemosynary Institutions.
Page 351 - Nearly 26,000 of these registration books were filled up and returned to the office in 1880, and nearly all of them used for statistical purposes. It is hoped that double this number will be obtained for the Eleventh Census. Physicians not receiving Registers, can obtain them by sending their names and addresses to the Census Office, and, with the Register, an official envelope, which requires no stamp, will be provided for their return to Washington. If all medical and surgical practitioners throughout...
Page 412 - Congress will be opened on the 4th and closed on the 9th day of August, 1890. Detailed information as to the order of proceedings will be issued after the meeting of the delegates of the German Medical Faculties and Medical Societies at Heidelberg on the i/th of September in the current year.
Page 121 - For some years," writes a correspondent, " I have used spirits of turpentine in postpartum hemorrhage, and, in every case, with the best results. When the ordinary means, ie, friction over the uterus, irritation of the uterus by introduction of the fingers, cold, hypodermic injection of...
Page 121 - ... my hand into the uterus and holding it against the walls, rapid contraction took place, and all hemorrhage instantly ceased. In one or two cases, when the patient was almost pulseless, it seemed to act as a stimulant. On no occasion did its action fail...
Page 320 - Weakness, and maladies requiring a Tonic and Nutrient. It is quickly absorbed by the Stomach and upper portion of the Alimentary Canal, and therefore finds its way into the circulation quite rapidly.