Gaillard's Medical Journal and the American Medical Weekly, Volume 2

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1866 - Medicine
 

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Page 339 - Each essay must be accompanied by a sealed envelope containing the name and address of the author and bearing on the outside the motto or device which is inscribed upon the essay.
Page 438 - Medical Diagnosis, with Special Reference to Practical Medicine. A Guide to the Knowledge and Discrimination of Diseases. By JM DA COSTA, MD, Lecturer on Clinical Medicine, and Physician to the Pennsylvania Hospital ; Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, etc., etc.
Page 158 - The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the great seal, granting the dignity of a baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, unto the Right Hon.
Page 144 - By GUNNING S. BEDFORD, AM, MD, Professor of Obstetrics, the Diseases of Women and Children...
Page 89 - Women : Delivered in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, by J. MATTHEWS DUNCAN, MD, FRCP 8vo, 8s. By the same Author. Papers on the Female Perineum, &c. 8vo, 6s. The Principles and Practice of Gynaecology. By THOMAS ADDIS EMMET, MD, Surgeon to the Woman's Hospital, New York. Second Edition. Royal 8vo, with 133 Engravings, 24s.
Page 536 - I prescribed the oil totally divested of all prejudice in its favour, and I have always been reluctant on imperfect grounds to refer results to the operation of medicines. If ozonized oil can reduce the rapidity of the circulation — a feature of great prominence in phthisis — this remedy possesses a most valuable property, rendered still more valuable by its contributing at the same time to improve the general health.
Page 177 - This form proved fatal but seldom. 2. "It frequently begins with a slight indisposition, much resembling an ordinary cold, with a listless habit, a slow and scarce discernible fever, some soreness of the throat and tumefaction of the tonsils ; and perhaps a running of the nose, the countenance pale, and the eyes dull and heavy. Sometimes vehement sickness of the stomach, a perpetual vomiting; and sometimes by ejecting of black...
Page 253 - The inner tube for delivering the ether runs upwards nearly to the extremity of the outer tube. Now, when the bellows are worked, a double current of air is produced, one current descending and pressing upon the ether forcing it along the inner tube, and the other ascending through the outer tube and playing upon the column of ether as it escapes through the fine jet.
Page 394 - ... at an elevation of about 4,000 feet above the level of the sea, at Dutch Flat, and again at Grass Valley, 2-3UOO feet above the level of the sea.
Page 390 - It has seated itself upon the banks of the Thames, scaled the romantic heights of North Wales, and has descended into the Cornish mines. Commencing in the spring months, it has continued through the summer ; and if extremes of temperature have appeared to lend it fresh vigor and the heat of the dog-days or the severe frosts and sleet of winter have fostered its strength, yet moderate temperature has not greatly abated its influence, and it has struck a blow here and there through all the seasons.

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