The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Volume 64

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Cupples, Upham & Company, 1861
 

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Page 186 - A Treatise on Human Physiology : designed for the use of Students and Practitioners of Medicine. By JOHN C. DALTON, MD, Professor of Physiology and Hygiene in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York.
Page 294 - IVnalty fnr violating ibis act. not be permitted to collect any fees or charges for services rendered by legal process, and moreover shall be liable to a penalty of twenty dollars for each and every violation thereof, said sum or sums to be collected by indictment or information, as in other cases provided by law.
Page 490 - I have seen (in the vessels of the pia mater) taking place under my eyes, when a tightened ligature was applied on the hilus of the kidney, irritating the renal nerves, or when a similar operation was performed on the bloodvessels and nerves of the suprarenal capsules. Generally in those cases the contraction is much more evident on the side of the cord corresponding with the side of the irritated nerves, which fact is in harmony with another and not rare one, observed first by Comhaire (as regards...
Page 495 - It is probably more potent than that of ether, requires a free admixture of air, and may produce upon the system some impression or influence, other than that of the mere intoxication attendant upon the use of ether. In awaiting further evidence, it may be considered established that kerosolene is an anaesthetic of undoubted efficiency, and that it possesses certain remarkable and attractive properties peculiar to itself.
Page 287 - Report to the Legislature of Massachusetts, relating to the Registry and Return of Births, Marriages, and Deaths in the Commonwealth, for the Year ending December 31, 1857.
Page 336 - ... the army and navy — oven to the officers — and it is said that an attempt is to be made to prevent its importation into the colonies. Deaths and insanity, the result of its habitual use, are, I am informed by a medical friend of mine, very common in Paris ; and that on the tombstones of several of the prominent men in the literary world, whose lights have gone out during the past ten years, might with truth be written,
Page 177 - When chloroform is inhaled into the lungs, the oxygen is abstracted from the blood, and, combining with the formyle, makes formic acid ; while chlorine combines with the blood as a substitute for oxygen. Thus a portion of the blood becomes chemically changed, disorganized, and rendered unfit for its vital functions.
Page 248 - ... intolerance of light had disappeared, and the eye was much less congested. Of course no improvement of vision was to be expected in the left eye, which had been blind for several years. Mrs. M. remained at the Infirmary for a week after the operation, during which time she continued to improve, and when she left the inflammation had entirely subsided, and the sight of her right eye was completely restored. I heard through her physician, in the early part of January, that she had continued well...
Page 410 - American Medical Biography of the Nineteenth Century. Edited by SAMUEL D. GROSS, MD, Professor of Surgery in the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, &c., &e.
Page 117 - The question of the entire immunity from danger which is claimed for anaesthesia produced by ether, being still under discussion, the Boston Society for Medical Improvement has appointed the undersigned a committee ' to investigate the alleged deaths from the inhalation of sulphuric ether, and to report thereon.' They would therefore request the medical profession, or any person into whose hands this may fall, to communicate to either of them such cases, coming within their own observation, as shall...

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