Virginia Medical Journal, Volum 9

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Ritchie and Dunnavant, 1857
 

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Pàgina 476 - Oh that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!
Pàgina 58 - ... can, then spread it thinly on a dish, and place it in a slow oven ; if put in at night, let it remain until the morning, when, if perfectly dry and crisp, it will be fit for grinding. The bran thus prepared must be ground...
Pàgina 172 - Never affect to be other than you are — either richer or wiser. Never be ashamed to say, "I do not know." Men will then believe you when you say "I do know." Never be ashamed to say, whether as applied to time or money, " I cannot afford it" — " I cannot afford to waste an hour in the idleness to which you invite me— I cannot afford the guinea you ask me to throw away.
Pàgina 59 - Mix the eggs with a little of the milk, and warm the butter with the other portion ; then stir the whole well together, adding a little nutmeg and ginger, or any other agreeable spice.
Pàgina 268 - Steam, at a temperature of from 550° to 600° Fah., is introduced into a distillatory apparatus, containing a quantity of palm oil. The fatty acids take up their equivalents of water, and the glycerine takes up its equivalent ; they then distil over together. In the receiver the condensed glycerine, from its higher specific gravity, sinks below the fat acids.
Pàgina 231 - This method consists in turning into the meatus auditorius from four to ten drops (according to the age and sensibility of the patient) of the following fluid; then to close the opening of the ear by means of a little cotton, and to cause the patient to hold the head inclined for some minutes to the side opposite to the seat of the pain, so that the liquid may remain in the bottom of the ear. This preparation is thus made...
Pàgina 173 - Three faces wears the doctor ; when first sought, An angel's— and a god's the cure half wrought ; But when that cure complete, he seeks his fee. The devil looks less terrible than he.
Pàgina 88 - ... had extensive opportunities of observing the effects of tobacco upon the health of a very large number of habitual smokers. The extraordinary fact is this : that leeches were killed instantly by the blood of the smokers, so suddenly that they dropped off dead immediately they were applied ; and that fleas and bugs, whose bites on the children were as thick as measles, rarely if ever attacked the smoking parent.
Pàgina 281 - Though the box was quite open, and kept in his laboratory, no effluvia was ever perceptible, and on examining the bodies of the animals at the end of six months, scarcely anything remained of them except their bones. Mr. Turnbull sent me a portion of the charcoal powder which had been most closely in contact with the bodies of the dogs.
Pàgina 59 - ... let it remain until the morning, when, if perfectly dry and crisp, it will be fit for grinding. The bran thus prepared must be ground in a fine mill...

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