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Page 223 - A Treatise on Diseases of the Skin. For the use of Advanced Students and practitioners. By Henry W. Stelwagon, MD, Ph. D., Clinical Professor of Dermatology, Jefferson Medical College and Woman's Medical College, Philadelphia; Dermatologist to the Howard and Philadelphia Hospitals.
Page 350 - A COMPEND OF HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY. Especially Adapted for the Use of Medical Students. By Albert P. Brubaker, AM, MD, Adjunct Professor of Physiology...
Page 318 - Diseases of the Eye. — A Hand-Book of Ophthalmic Practice for Students and Practitioners. By GE de Schweinitz, AM, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology in the Jefferson Medical College; Professor of Diseases of the Eye...
Page 318 - Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, etc. With an Introductory Note by JOHN H. MUSSER, MD, Professor of Clinical Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.
Page 62 - A yearly Digest of Scientific Progress and Authoritative Opinion in all branches of Medicine and Surgery, drawn from journals, monographs, and text-books of the leading American and foreign authors and investigators. Arranged, with critical editorial comments, by eminent American specialists, under the editorial charge of George M. Gould, AM, MD In two volumes — Volume I, including General Medicine, Octavo, 700 pages, illustrated ; Volume II, General Surgery, Octavo, 684 pages, illustrated.
Page 178 - As the nasal obstruction disappears, natural breathing is materially aided and the ungovernable desire to sneeze is mitigated. In short, a season of comparative comfort takes the place of the former condition of distress and unrest. Adrenalin blanches the mucous membrane by vigorously contracting the capillaries, and thus reduces local turgescence. It strengthens the heart and overcomes the sense of malaise so frequently a prominent feature in cases of long standing. In the treatment of hay fever...
Page 286 - The student sees the actual conditions as they exist in fractured bones, and is encouraged to determine for himself how to meet the conditions found in each individual case. Methods of treatment are described in minute detail, and the reader is not only told, but is shown how to apply apparatus, for as far as possible, all the details are illustrated. This elaborate and complete series of illustrations constitutes a feature of the book. There are 688 of them, all from new and original drawings and...
Page 319 - By HENRY T. BYFORD, MD, Professor of Gynecology and Clinical Gynecology in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago ; Professor of Clinical Gynecology, Women's Medical School of Northwestern University, and in Post-Graduate Medical School, etc.
Page 380 - A young doctor, wishing to make a good impression upon a German farmer, mentioned the fact that he had received a double education, as it were. He had studied homoeopathy, and was also a graduate of a "regular" medical school. "Oh! dot vas noding," said the farmer, "I had vonce a calf vot sucked two cows, and he made nothing but a common schteer after all.
Page 89 - I presume that the prevalence was greatly due to the extraordinary heat of this summer. Notwithstanding the severity of some of the cases, my patients all recovered. Before entering into a detailed description of some of the most severe cases, a definition of the word "ptomaine," with some views of competent authors, will be well placed here.