The Medical and Physical Journal: Containing the Earliest Information on Subjects of Medicine, Surgery, Pharmacy, Chemistry, and Natural History ..., Volume 24R. Phillips, 1810 |
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... physicians in every period of the world , impatient of observing and delineating , have been eager to explain , and even to systematize ; and the science of life owes its corruptions more to the misapplication of learning , than even to ...
... physicians in every period of the world , impatient of observing and delineating , have been eager to explain , and even to systematize ; and the science of life owes its corruptions more to the misapplication of learning , than even to ...
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... physicians , relative to this pestilence . Dr. Chisholm supports his opinion both by facts and rea- soning , and with an earnestness that shews his own con- viction . The American physicians have been extremely anxious anxious to ...
... physicians , relative to this pestilence . Dr. Chisholm supports his opinion both by facts and rea- soning , and with an earnestness that shews his own con- viction . The American physicians have been extremely anxious anxious to ...
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... physicians of Ame- rica are perfectly decided in their opinion ; for we have now to state the promulgation of a new hypothesis in that country , or rather the revival of an old one , to explain the origin , not only of Typhus icteroides ...
... physicians of Ame- rica are perfectly decided in their opinion ; for we have now to state the promulgation of a new hypothesis in that country , or rather the revival of an old one , to explain the origin , not only of Typhus icteroides ...
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... physicians of reputation for physiological learning , and a knowledge of nature . Among the earliest of these is found Christian Langius , a French physician , born at Luccau , in the lower Lusace ; and who , after quickly reaching the ...
... physicians of reputation for physiological learning , and a knowledge of nature . Among the earliest of these is found Christian Langius , a French physician , born at Luccau , in the lower Lusace ; and who , after quickly reaching the ...
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... physician to the gallies in that port . In a dissertation de Morbis Venereis , pub- lished in 1723 , Dedier argues , that an imperceptible vermis is the cause of syphilis ; and that the disease is propagated by the transmission of this ...
... physician to the gallies in that port . In a dissertation de Morbis Venereis , pub- lished in 1723 , Dedier argues , that an imperceptible vermis is the cause of syphilis ; and that the disease is propagated by the transmission of this ...
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Page 460 - Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases. A good vomit, I confess, a virtuous herb, if it be well qualified, opportunely taken, and medicinally used ; but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.
Page 386 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
Page 521 - JBryce proposes that, a second inoculation be performed about the sixth day after the first, the vesicle produced by this second inoculation is accelerated in its progress, so as to arrive at maturity, and again fade, at nearly the same time as the affection arising from the first inoculation. • Mr. B. considers the acceleration of the second...
Page 31 - ... most conversant with dogs. On the continent, I find it has been known for a much longer period. It is as contagious among dogs, as the small-pox, measles, or scarlet fever among the human species ; and the contagious miasmata, like those arising from the diseases just mentioned, retain their infectious properties a long time after separation from the distempered animal.
Page 397 - ... the skin. October 23. His pulse continued full, and the arm was very painful, though reduced in size. The vesications had burst, and the exposed cutis was dressed with white ointment. Stools were procured by an opening medicine. He took some veal and porter for dinner ; the wine was left off. In the evening he had a saline draught with antimonial wine. October 24. There was no material change. October 25. His pulse had increased in frequency, but in other respects he was nearly the same. His...
Page 489 - ... seen apparently to rise in the tube that contains it, because a portion of its gravity is then employed in occasioning its descent along with the vessel ; and accordingly, if it were confined in a tube closed at bottom, it would no longer press with its whole weight upon the lower end. In the same manner, and for the same reason, the blood no longer presses downwards with its whole weight, and will be driven upwards by the elasticity which before was merely sufficient to support it.
Page 460 - Tobacco, divine, rare, super-excellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all their panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers' stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases. A good vomit, I confess, a virtuous herb, if it be well qualified, opportunely taken, and medicinally used ; but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health, hellish, devilish, and damned tobacco, the...
Page 490 - ... mechanical effect upon the stomach, and had experienced immediate relief from a slight degree of sea-sickness, by lying down upon the deck, with his head towards the stem of the vessel ; by means of which, upon pitching, he was in the attitude of a person descending backwards in a swing. " Whether the stomach be or be not thus primarily affected, or only by sympathy with the brain, the sensation of sinking is in all cases referred directly to the stomach, which is seized with such instantaneous...
Page 398 - Oo outside outside of the elbow, which was opened, and half a pint of reddish-brown matter was discharged with sloughs of cellular membrane floating in it. The lower part of the arm became much smaller, but the upper part continued tense. A poultice was applied to the wound. The lower portion of the arm and the fore-arm were covered with circular stripes of soap cerate. He was ordered to take the bark, and allowed wine and porter. October 30. The redness and swelling of the upper part of the arm...
Page 303 - To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury: The Memorial and Petition of Gustavus Vassa a black Man, late Commissary to the black Poor going to Africa. humbly sheweth, That your Lordships...