Liverpool Medico-chirurgical Journal, Volume 161896 |
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Page 254 - Professor of Materia Medica. Pharmacology, Therapeutics, and Clinical Medicine, and Clinical Professor of Diseases of the Skin in the Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia ; Physician...
Page 505 - An act relating to labor, constituting chapter thirty-one of the consolidated laws," is amended by the addition of a new section numbered fifty-eight, to read as follows: § 58. Industrial poisonings to be reported. — 1. Every medical practitioner attending on or called in to visit a patient whom he believes to be suffering from poisoning from lead, phosphorus, arsenic...
Page 406 - Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
Page 75 - Put half a pint of hot water into a pint basin, add to this as much of the crumb of bread as the water will cover : then place a plate over the basin and let it remain about ten minutes ; stir the bread about in the water, or, if necessary, chop it a little with the edge of the knife, and drain off the water by holding the knife on the top of the basin, but do not press the bread, as is usually done ; then take it out lightly, and spread it about one-third of an inch thick on some soft linen, and...
Page 405 - Respecting the movement of the hands I have these observations to make: When in acute fevers, pneumonia, phrenitis, or headache, the hands are waved before the face, hunting through empty space, as if gathering bits of straw, picking the nap from the coverlet, or tearing chaff from the wall — all such symptoms are bad and deadly.
Page 75 - ... a little more meal and a little more water, then stir it again. Do not let any lumps remain in the basin, but stir the poultice well, and do not be sparing of your trouble.
Page 408 - It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for, if treated, the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
Page 75 - ... made, it is so well worked together that you might throw it up to the ceiling, and it would come down again without falling in pieces ; it is, in fact, like a pancake. What you do next is to take as much of it out of the basin as you may require, lay it on a piece of soft linen, let it be about a quarter of an inch thick, and so wide that it may cover the whole of the inflamed part.
Page 261 - Bah," said the doctor, who regarded a valetudinarian as a " scoundrel," " if you have so many things that will break, you had better break your neck at once, and there's an end on't.
Page 406 - Growing bodies have the most innate heat; they therefore require the most food, for otherwise their bodies are wasted. In old persons the heat is feeble, and therefore they require little fuel, as it were, to the flame, for it would be extinguished by much.