The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, Volume 9J.B. Lippincott, Company, 1831 - Medicine |
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Page 453 - to medical aid, sunk themselves suddenly seized with the disorder. The mortality at length became so great that there was neither time nor hands to carry off the bodies, which were thrown into the neighbouring ravines, or hastily committed to the earth on the spots where they had expired, and even round the walls of the officers tents.
Page 449 - a division of Bengal troops, consisting of five thousand men, who were proceeding under the command of Colonel Pearse of the artillery, to join Sir Eyre Coote's army on the coast. Men previously in perfect health dropped down by dozens, and those even less severely affected were generally dead or past recovery within less than an
Page 439 - capillary extremities) the secreting and the excreting organs, which in fact are composed essentially of the capillary extremities of the arteries; the secreting and excreting extremities of these arteries, especially as they terminate in the external skin and in the mucous membranes which form the internal skin; this is the
Page 121 - where the small-pox has succeeded vaccination, whether by inoculation or by casual infection, the disease has varied much from its ordinary course; it has neither been the same in violence nor in the duration of its symptoms, but has, with very few exceptions, been remarkably
Page 184 - healthy skin to the extent of an inch or more beyond it, in severe cases. The part is to be exposed to the air to dry, and is to be kept cool. In twenty-four hours, if the nitrate of silver has been properly applied, it will be frequently observed that the inflammation has subsided, and its progress
Page 473 - investigation had been made into what were considered the first four cases occurring in Moscow, and that it proved that they had neither themselves been in any infected place, nor had communication with any one coming from such place. "* It has been equally impossible to trace its introduction into Sunderland. Mr.
Page 439 - The order of events then is, first, derangement in the nervous and sensorial functions; this is the invariable antecedent; secondly, derangement in the circulating function; this is the invariable sequent; and thirdly, derangement in the secreting and excreting functions; this is the last result in the succession of morbid changes. " Supposing the matter of fact to be as