Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Volumes 10-11Cupples, Upham & Company, 1834 - Medicine |
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Page 362 - If given after the birth of the child, and before the expulsion of the placenta and membranes, it may prevent the removal of the latter, and thus be indirectly a cause of puerperal septicaemia.
Page 151 - ... for their future establishment in the world. No principles would be early worked into the habits. As soon as the most able instructor had completed his laborious course of institution, instead of sending forth his pupil, accomplished in a virtuous discipline, fitted to procure him attention and respect, in his place in society, he would find everything altered; and that he had turned out a poor creature to the contempt and derision of the world, ignorant of the true grounds of estimation.
Page 162 - Boston — to surrender the dead bodies of such persons, except town paupers, as may be required to be buried at the public expense, to any regular physician, duly licensed, according to the laws of this Commonwealth, to be by said physician used for the advancement of anatomical science, preference being always given to the medical schools that now are, or hereafter may be by law established in this Commonwealth, during such portions of the year as such schools, or either of them, may require...
Page 162 - Cemetery aforesaid, or any fence, railing or other work for the protection or ornament of any tomb, monument, grave-stone or other structure aforesaid, or of any Cemetery Lot, within...
Page 199 - The mouth is next to be washed with tepid water. The acid should be gradually applied to the whole cavity of the tooth, or otherwise a second application will be required before complete relief will be obtained. This remedy may be used when .the gum and cheek are inflamed, so as to preclude the possibility of extraction. In cases where the diseased fang remains, and when the caries faces the adjacent tooth, it obviates the necessity of extraction in all cases of hollow teeth, which all practitioners...
Page 106 - ... inflammation. On the 21st August, the right mamma and adjoining parts of the chest were found much more enlarged than they had been at the preceding visit The left mamma and side of the thorax were unaffected ; and it was announced by the nurse that the catamenia had that morning appeared, and were then in considerable quantity.
Page 238 - I never see a fashionable physician mysteriously counting the pulse of a plethoric patient, or, with a silver spoon on his tongue, importantly looking down his red, inflamed gullet...
Page 136 - Each dissertation must be accompanied by a sealed packet, on which, shall be written some device or sentence, and within shall be enclosed the author's name and place of residence.
Page 187 - ... the hand of the tinker, — in short, that, feeling very old, I merely wanted to become young again. " Dr. Fenner is what would be called in England
Page 357 - ... clear sound, particularly in the region usually occupied by the heart. It was evident that no effusion of fluid existed in addition to the pneumonia detected at the base of the left lung. On closer examination we were, therefore, greatly surprised at finding that the heart was pushed out of its place, and pulsated quite close to the mamma on the right side. Had the heart been pushed thus far out of...