British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review: Or, Quarterly Journal of Practial Medicine and Surgery, Volume 581876 - Medicine |
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Page 145 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the creator into a few forms or into one; and that, while this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
Page 329 - These questions now intrude into virtually all of my work, and I do not think it is too much to say that they haunt the contemporary imagination.
Page 33 - LECTURES ON SYPHILIS, and on some forms of Local Disease, affecting principally the Organs of Generation, by HENRY LEE, FRCS, Surgeon to St. George's Hospital.
Page 495 - A MANUAL OF AUSCULTATION AND PERCUSSION; of the Physical Diagnosis of Diseases of the Lungs and Heart, and of Thoracic Aneurism.
Page 105 - Lectures on Obstetric Operations : Including the Treatment of Haemorrhage, and forming a Guide to the Management of Difficult Labour. By ROBERT BARNES, MD, FRCP, Obstetric Physician to St. George's Hospital. Third Edition.
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Page 251 - Medicinal Plants : Being descriptions, with original figures, of the Principal Plants employed in Medicine, and an account of their Properties and Uses.
Page 210 - USA, read a paper on this subject, of which the following is an abstract : — " Cast iron — the raw material from which the malleable metal is made — may be formulated approximately as follows : — Silicon (Si), 5 to 3 per cent. Phosphorus (P), 05 to 2 per cent. Manganese (Mn) , 0 to 20 per cent. Sulphur (S), 25 to 2 per cent. Carbon (C), 2 to 5 per cent. Iron (Fe...
Page 121 - Not only is the public health thus exposed to danger, and pecuniary fraud committed on the whole community, but the public morality is tainted, and the high commercial character of this country seriously lowered both at home and in the eyes of foreign countries.
Page 160 - A considerable number of new Figures have been introduced into the present Edition, some having been substituted for former ones now withdrawn, others added as new Illustrations.