Transactions of the New York State Medical Association for the Year ..., Volume 7

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D. Appleton and Company, 1891 - Medicine
 

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Page 549 - For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption : But he whom God raised again saw no corruption.
Page 549 - It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood ; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt ; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death ; but, above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is, '' Nunc dimittis" when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations.
Page 498 - An age that melts with unperceived decay, And glides in modest innocence away; Whose peaceful day benevolence endears, Whose night congratulating conscience cheers; The general favourite as the general friend: Such age there is, and who shall wish its end? Yet even on this her load misfortune flings, To press the weary minutes' flagging wings: New sorrow rises as the day returns, A sister sickens, or a daughter mourns.
Page 72 - Perhaps we do not as physicians consider sufficiently the influence of mental states in the production of disease, and their importance as symptoms, or take all the advantage which one might take of them in our efforts to cure it. Quackery seems to have here got hold of a truth which legitimate medicine fails to appreciate and use adequately.
Page 381 - If, then, the abstraction of blood, instead of being the dangerous practice represented by those who talk about its depressing effects without ever having tested it, is comparatively harmless in health, how essential may it become when an internal vital organ is struggling under the embarrassment of extreme engorgement.
Page 355 - They have no physicians, but when a man is ill, they lay him in the public square, and the passers-by come up to him, and if they have ever had his disease themselves or have known any one who has suffered from it, they give him advice, recommending him to do whatever they found good in their own case, or in the case known to them. And no one is allowed to pass, the sick man in silence without asking him what his ailment is.
Page 235 - ... the reason for passing four ligatures was to compress such a length of artery as might make up for the want of tightness, as he chose to avoid great pressure on the vessel at any one part.
Page 574 - Treasury as ex officio members, and of the Surgeon General of the Army, the Surgeon General of the Navy, and the...
Page 353 - Medicine is practised among them on a plan of separation ; each physician treats a single disorder, and no more: thus the country swarms with medical practitioners, some undertaking to cure diseases of the eye, others of the head, others again of the teeth, others of the intestines, and some those which are not local.
Page 80 - These issue from the ground while yet in the pupa state; as soon as 7 they have acquired wings they rise in the air and spread to new vineyards, where they lay their eggs usually in the down of the under sides of the leaves.

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