The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences: Being a Digest of British and Continental Medicine, and of the Progess of Medicine and the Collateral Sciences, Volum 40

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J. Churchill, 1865
 

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Pàgina iii - THE HALF-YEARLY ABSTRACT OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES. Being a Digest of the Contents of the principal British and Continental Medical Works; together with a Critical Report of the Progress of' Medicine and the Collateral Sciences.
Pàgina 260 - that the coagulation of the blood is in no way connected with the evolution of ammonia any more than with the influence of oxygen or of rest. The real cause of the coagulation of the blood, when shed from the body, is the influence exerted upon it by ordinary matter, the contact of which for a very brief period effects a change in the blood, inducing a mutual reaction between its solid and fluid constituents, in which the corpuscles impart to the liquor sanguinis a disposition to coagulate.
Pàgina 28 - In order to ascertain if these appearances were trustworthy as evidences of inflammation, the contents of the stomachs of forty-five subjects were examined at the Middlesex Hospital, the condition of the mucous membrane being at the same time noted. In only one...
Pàgina 208 - The part of any solid body remaining after the rest is taken away," is a flattering description of one of our stumps of the thigh. It is in reality with us barely more than a peg whereon to hang an artificial limb. In youth, in middle age, in advanced years, it never improves. It never can be more than a shortened bone, with shortened and shrivelled materials around; and this even with the perfection of a stump. The defective results of excision I am disposed, in accordance with what I have said...
Pàgina 208 - Whilst meditating these remarks, I have rarely known a day pass in taking one's ordinary rounds that I have not observed persons walking in the streets with shortened and distorted limbs after disease of the knee. Most of them have moved more nimbly, and with greater apparent security and comfort than if on the artificial limb after amputation of the thigh. Yet shortening has in a manner become the bugbear of excision of the knee. I admit that it is a defect, but abstraction or excision and arrest...
Pàgina 198 - ... was erroneous. , Severe and unnecessary as the treatment seems to me, I think it is to be preferred to the calomel-and-antimony treatment still in vogue, for in all Mr. Smith's cases treated by incision no other remedies were employed, and the patient escaped all the horrors which Mr. Smith...
Pàgina 29 - Under the fourth proposition it is stated that the skin had only been examined microscopically in three cases. In the first, in which the patient died after a few days' illness, the only morbid appearance in the cutis was an occasional minute extravasation of blood in the neighbourhood of the sudoriferous ducts. The rete mucosum was greatly thickened, and numerous round cells with large nuclei were everywhere visible, intermixed with the natural cells. The basement membranes of the sweat-glands were...
Pàgina 16 - ... generally the orpiment, for a period of fifteen years. He first began to do so on the occasion of the inhabitants of a house, in the neighbourhood where he lived, being attacked with fever ; and when fourteen people had died in it, and no one would enter the premises, he determined to do so, and took, as a prophylactic, about one grain of arsenic daily for three successive days, while going to the infected house, and though he said he had not felt quite well at the time, he was unable now to...
Pàgina 170 - ... overbalanced by the vigour of the upper constrictors of the pharynx. Above all, looking to the surgical aspect of the malformation, I gave it as my opinion that the action of the levatores palati probably exercised such an influence on the lateral portions of the palate, after the operation of Roux, as to mar its good intentions. I showed, in as far as one could by reference to the dead and living parts, how the levator muscle on each side had such free and uncontrolled action that, whenever...
Pàgina 169 - LECTURES ON THE PROGRESS OF ANATOMY AND SURGERY DURING THE PRESENT CENTURY.

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