Medical Standard, Volume 8

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1890
 

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Page 24 - New Medical Dictionary. Including all the Words and Phrases used in Medicine, with their proper Pronunciation and Definitions, based on Recent Medical Literature. By GEORGE M. GOULD, BA, MD, Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Philadelphia Hospital, etc., With Tables of the Bacilli, Micrococci, Leucoma'ines, Ptomaines, etc., of the Arteries, Muscles, Nerves, Ganglia and Plexuses; Mineral Springs of US, Vital Statistics, etc.
Page 175 - Nothing [in this act] herein contained shall be construed to prohibit or interfere with any properly conducted scientific experiments or investigations, which experiments shall be performed only under the authority of the faculty of some regularly incorporated medical college or university of [the state of New York] this state.
Page 86 - Have you ever, when completely awake, had a vivid impression of seeing or being touched by a living being or inanimate object, or of hearing a voice; which impression, so far as you could discover, was not due to any external physical cause?
Page 85 - I refer to the Census of Hallucinations, which was begun several years ago by the " Society for Psychical Research," and of which the International Congress of Experimental Psychology at Paris, last summer, assumed the future responsibility, naming a commitee in each country to carry on the work.
Page 136 - ... purely to save life. All in all, I believe that, judged simply by its remoter effects, the operation of rapid dilatation is a dangerous one, and results oftener in subsequent harm than in lasting good.
Page 139 - And Asa, in the thirty-ninth year of his reign, was diseased in his feet until the disease was exceedingly great ; yet, in his disease, he sought not the Lord but the physicians. And Asa slept with his fathers.
Page 41 - ... given up to the development of the mental powers: the child, when a mere infant, being compelled to attend some school, where the immature brain is forced into abnormal and disastrous activity. On its return home, jaded in mind and body, to prepare for next day's task, such a child is necessarily unfit for the enjoyment of the physical exercise which is essential for its bodily development and health, or for the still more important elementary training of the affections and moral faculties and...
Page 71 - I venture to hope, may be found to supply a want still recognized by the gynecologists — namely that of a reliable and effective means of securing the rapid and permanent dilatation of the cervical canal in the treatment of stenosis giving rise to the morbid conditions now under consideration. This instrument differs from other dilators in several respects, and, above all, in one which I consider most important — viz., in producing expansion of the canal from within...
Page 41 - ... for the accomplishment of any herculean feat of physical strength : it being not less inhuman, injudicious, and impolitic to expect the former than it would be the latter from those so circumstanced. If the State, for reasons of public policy, determines that all children shall be compulsorily educated from their earliest years, it should certainly afford the means by which this may be least injuriously and most effectually carried out, by providing food and physical training as well as mental...
Page 18 - The majority of cases of so-called idiopathic peritonitis in children will be found, upon inquiry, to be traumatic. 3. Slight injuries of the abdominal contents are relatively more dangerous in children than in adults. 4. Acute peritonitis in children, while apparently idiopathic, is often secondary to perityphlitic inflammation, which runs a rapid course and extends to the general peritoneum without the intervention of appreciable local changes. 5. The profound prostration and cardiac inhibition...

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