Journal of the British Dental Association, Volume 11British Dental Association, 1890 - Dentistry |
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Page 544 - Rymer) not only for the manner in which he had conducted the business of the Association during the past year, but also for the admirable address he had delivered.
Page 355 - The other day his successor and nephew, Professor Simpson, was asked by the librarian of the University to go to the library and pick out the books on his subject that were no longer needed. And his reply to the librarian was this: " Take every text-book that is more than ten years old, and put it down in the cellar.
Page 662 - The known is finite, the unknown infinite ; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions.
Page 617 - Though my teeth are kept usually very clean, nevertheless when I view them in a Magnifying Glass, I find growing between them a little white matter as thick as wetted flour; in this substance, though I could not perceive any motion, I judged there might probably be living Creatures.
Page 77 - The Commission has no doubt whatever that, if the above rules be followed, chloroform may be given in any case requiring an operation with perfect ease and absolute safety, so as to do good without the risk of evil.
Page 50 - If any one who reads these remarks should employ strychnine in the manner above described he will be struck by the immediate improvement in the respiration which follows its administration. If the circulation threatens to fail in consequence of the poison affecting the motor mechanism, or of spasm of the arterioles. caused by deficient oxygenation of the blood, it also will require prompt attention. The use of the strychnine is of service as a stimulant to the motor centres of the heart, and may...
Page 358 - ... register of any additional diploma, memberships, degrees, licences, or letters held by a person registered therein, which appear to the Council to be granted after examination by any of the medical authorities in respect of a higher degree of knowledge than is required to obtain a certificate of fitness under this Act.
Page 269 - Lister performed several serious operations, using hypnotism as the antesthetic, at the hands of a scientific lay friend in Lincolnshire. Mr. Jessop was also prevented at the last moment from being present. The object of the meeting was to show the power of hypnotism to produce absolute anaesthesia in very painful and severe operations. The first case brought into the room was a woman of twenty-five.
Page 74 - II. If during an operation the recumbent position on the back cannot, from any cause, be maintained during chloroform administration, the utmost attention to the respiration is necessary to prevent asphyxia or an overdose.
Page 271 - He was then told to awake, and the glass of water offered him by Dr. Bramwell ; he put it to his lips, and at once spat out the "offensive liquid." Other interesting phenomena were illustrated and explained by means of this patient, who was a hale, strong working man.