The New Hampshire Journal of Medicine ..., Volume 7Edward Hazen Parker 1857 - Medicine |
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Page 148 - Medical Colleges ;' and also the words ' The faculty of every regularly constituted Medical College, or chartered school of Medicine, shall have the privilege of sending two delegates.
Page 147 - offered the following resolutions which were unanimously adopted : Resolved, That a committee of three be appointed, of which the President of the association shall be chairman, to communicate with the Surgeon General of the army, the chief of the Medical Bureau of the Navy, and the Secretary of the Treasury of the
Page 4 - the urine. When the activity of the combustion which takes place in the blood, is too feeble to burn the whole of the albumen, which, in the normal state, should be consumed in a given time, the general vitality is diminished, and thus more or less albumen is allowed to pass unaltered into the urine
Page 227 - became diabetic. On the other hand the application of galvanism to the lower ends of the divided nerves was not found to be followed by any such result. These experiments clearly indicated that the nerve-force which excited the liver to secrete saccharine matter did not travel from the brain, through the
Page 21 - and offensive, and that the use of it in future would be contrary to gentlemanly courtesy, and the proprieties of cultivated society. I say again, we are not allopathists ; we are simply regular practitioners of medicine, claiming to 'be honest and honorable—in other words, to be gentlemen.
Page 319 - an open cancer gives great pain, and is wearing away the patient by bleeding or profuse foetid discharge, the knife is used in the hope of relieving suffering, and prolonging, not saving life. In some other cases, where a cancer causes great mental anxiety to
Page 291 - of mortality among inn-keepers, licensed victuallers, and beer-shop keepers should be seized with avidity by the advocates of teetotalism, they must not be forbidden its use ; at the same time they must be reminded, that " many highly respectable men of this class lead regular lives, and are of steady habits ; but others, exposed by their business to unusual temptations
Page 119 - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man
Page 230 - branches which normally call into action the peculiar function of the organ referred to. Indeed, if such be in reality the case, how does it happen that while the respiration, and consequently the stimulus, continue at about the same rate during the entire day, the secretion which is said to be the result of
Page 319 - as Justamond did, down to the living tissues beneath, so that they are not protected by the slough from the action of the caustic. The scoring is not so necessary when the chloride is used in solution as when it is used as paste, after destroying the skin by nitric acid ; and