British American Journal of Medical and Physical Science, Volume 5Roy Fontaine 1850 |
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Page 153 - Rich is thy soil,, and merciful thy clime ; Thy streams unfailing in the Summer's drought; Unmatch'd thy guardian oaks ; thy valleys float With golden waves : and on thy mountains flocks...
Page 11 - I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, : Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Page 232 - ... sufficiently common among the lower animals where the offspring exhibit more or less distinctly over and beyond the characters of the male by which they were begotten, the peculiarities also of a male by which their mother at some former period had been impregnated. * * * Great difficulty has been felt by physiological writers in regard to the proper explanation of this kind of phenomena. They have been ascribed by some to a permanent impression made somehow by the semen of the first male on...
Page 149 - a direct answer." The doctor, having first asked him if he could bear the whole truth, which way soever it might lead, and being answered that he could, declared that, in his opinion, he could not recover without a miracle. " Then," said Johnson, " I will take no more physic, not even my opiates ; for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded.
Page 22 - ... condition of the whole, as to render their positive or proximate equivalence highly probable, if not almost certain; and the conclusive evidence given of the age of the Huron, would thus appear to settle that of the Lake Superior rocks, in the position given to them by Dr. Houghton, the late State Geologist of Michigan, as beneath the lowest known fossiliferous deposits...
Page 117 - The spores of these plants are not only numerous, minute, and indefinitely diffused-, but they are so like to animal cells, as to have the power of penetrating into, and germinating upon, the most interior tissues of the human body. " Introduced into the body through the stomach, or by the skin or lungs, cryptogamous poisons were shown to produce diseases of a febrile character, intermittent, remittent and continued ; which were most successfully treated by wine and bark.
Page 210 - Hardie were at the trouble of examining the registers of her birth and christening, and folly satisfied the mselves that she had really conceived during the eleventh year of her age, and that at the time of her delivery she was only a few months advanced in her twelfth year ; her figure was that of a well-grown young woman, with fully developed mamma?, and it was ascertained that she had menstruated before she became pregnant,"— Of.
Page 123 - ... on a large scale ; consequently that it is a sign of regurgitation into the ventricles of the heart, into an aneurismal sac, or into a large or a dilated artery. 10th. That the remarkable resemblance between the normal and abnormal sounds of aneurism of the arch of the aorta, and the normal and abnormal sounds of the heart, renders it probable that the mechanism of their production is the same.
Page 187 - I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man, for fear of alarming him. You have no business with consequences; you are to tell the truth. Besides, you are not sure what effect your telling him that he is in danger may have. It may bring his distemper to a crisis, and that may cure him. Of all lying, I have the greatest abhorrence of this, because I believe it has been frequently practised on myself.
Page 232 - A mare belonging to Sir Gore Ouseley was covered by a zebra, and gave birth to a striped hybrid. The year following the same mare was" covered by a thorough-bred horse, and the next succeeding year by another horse.