Atlanta Medical and Surgical Journal, Volum 15

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1878
 

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Pàgina 123 - Contributions to Reparative Surgery, showing its Application to the Treatment of Deformities produced by Destructive Disease or Injury ; Congenital Defects from Arrest or Excess of Development; and Cicatricial Contractions following Burns. Illustrated by Thirty Cases and fine Engravings.
Pàgina 50 - Each State, county, and district medical society, entitled to representation, shall have the privilege of sending to the Association one delegate for every ten of its regular resident members, and one for every additional fraction of more than half that number...
Pàgina 633 - The Ear: its Anatomy, Physiology, and Diseases. A Practical Treatise for the Use of Medical Students and Practitioners. By CHARLES H.
Pàgina 117 - That Wells, without any knowledge of Long's labors, demonstrated, in the same philosophic way, the great principle of anaesthesia by the use of nitrous oxide gas (1844).
Pàgina 632 - Drugs, by C. BINZ, MD, Professor of Pharmacology in the University of Bonn. Translated and Edited with Additions, in Conformity with the British and American Pharmacopoeias, by EDWARD I. SPARKS, MA, MB Oxon., formerly Radcliffe Travelling Fellow.
Pàgina 50 - The delegates shall receive their appointment from permanently organized State Medical Societies, and such County and and District Medical Societies as are recognized by representation in their respective State Societies, and from the Medical Department of the Army and Navy of the United States.
Pàgina 653 - Windows, therefore, should not be run down toonear to the floor, as they often do in class-rooms and offices. I cannot agree with the opinion often expressed, that the best direction for the light to come from is from directly above. I cannot refrain from adding, in this connection, the conclusion founded on Dr. Cohn's elaborate investigations in regard to the near-sightedness among school children in Germany.
Pàgina 649 - ... occasion to look at fine objects for a long time, keeping the muscle of accommodation in a continued strain for a greater or less period. In all adults, however, the disease develops itself with much less frequency and with more difficulty than in children, because the tissues forming the eye balls in the grown person have received their growth, become hardened, and are much less influenced by excessive use than those of a child. Is it then a great misfortune to become near-sighted? Since a near-sighted...
Pàgina 651 - In the school-room there are two kinds of influences that work injuriously upon the eye-sight. Under the first are classed all those things which compel the eye to strain itself in order to see distinctly small letters or objects. Under the second, all those which cause a congestion of or rush of blood to the head and eye. To the first belong bad ventilation and improper light, too small and imperfect type, pale ink, many successive hours at the same kind of work, as in reading, writing, sewing,...
Pàgina 652 - Nor yet from the right side, because in writing the shadow of the hand falls across the page, and a moving shadow over a lighted surface not only reduces the quantity of light and leads to a stooping position, but it is also more annoying to the eye than a uniform reduction in the illumination of even a greater degree.

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