American Observer Medical Monthly, Volume 13E.A. Lodge, 1876 - Homeopathy |
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abdomen aching acid Aconite acute affected aggravated allopathic apoplexy appearance applied atelectasis attacks axilla bandage become Bell Belladonna blood body brain catarrhal cause cerebral chest chronic cold College compression confine congestion conjunctiva cornea cough course cravat cure delirium Detroit dilated diphtheria disease dose drachm dressings drug dysmenorrhoea especially extremities eyes fever fluid forceps forearm frequently gland hand head headache Homœopathic inches in width increased inflammation irritation Jaborandi lachrymation less lids limb liver lungs Materia Medica Medical medicine membrane Michigan mucous mucous membrane muscles night observed ophthalmia ophthalmoscope organs pain paralysis paroxysms patient photophobia physicians placenta poisoning portion posterior practice present Prof proved pulse purulent remedy result Salicylic acid says scrofulous sensation side skin sometimes spiral stage stomach surface swelling symptoms therapeutic tion tissue treatment triangle tumor ulceration urine uterus vessels vomiting yards in length
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Page 65 - DUKE'S PALACE. [Enter DUKE, CURIO, LORDS; MUSICIANS attending.] DUKE. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
Page 381 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind : and God saw that it was good.
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Page 485 - For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD ; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.
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Page 632 - I WAS ever of opinion, that the honest man who married, and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
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Page 174 - does not appear to be at all dependent on the nerve affected, it being equally efficacious in neuralgia of the sciatic as of the trigeminus. I have found it of the greatest service in neuralgia of the larynx, and in relieving spasmodic cough of a nervous or hysterical character.
Page 229 - Abernet 1y th.it he not only complied the most provoking sang froid, " And I, sir, am John Abernethy, surgeon, lecturer of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, &c. ; and if you wish to consult me, I am now ready to hear what you have to say in your turn.