The Medico-chirurgical Review, and Journal of Practical Medicine

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1846
 

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Strona 13 - By this time a profuse sweat had broke out on every individual, and this was attended with an insatiable thirst, which became the more intolerable as the body was drained of its moisture. In vain those miserable objects stripped themselves of their clothes, squatted down on their hams, and fanned the...
Strona xii - A CLINICAL INTRODUCTION TO THE PRACTICE OF AUSCULTATION, and other Modes of Physical Diagnosis, in Diseases of the Lungs and Heart. Second American from the Second and Improved London Edition.
Strona 13 - He retired to a platform at the farther end of the room, and lying down upon some of his dead friends, recommended his soul to heaven. Here his thirst grew insupportable ; his difficulty in breathing increased, and he was seized with a strong palpitation. These violent symptoms, which he could not bear, urged him to make another effort : he forced his way back to the window, and cried aloud, "Water! for God's sake!
Strona 6 - Twas his the vast and trackless Deep to rove : Alternate change of Climates has he known, And felt the fierce extremes of either zone, Where polar Skies congeal th...
Strona 53 - ... a most valuable sign from which we have often derived the greatest assistance. Rev.) Finally, It should be recollected that constipation may depend on mere loss of power in the intestinal nerves, as well as on spasm, obstruction, or mflammation, since the treatment in each case must necessarily be modified, or directed by the supposed cause of this symptom.
Strona 290 - In fact, the whole of this part of the organisation of fishes is replete with beautiful instances of design, and instructive illustrations of animal mechanics. The vertical section of a pharyngeal jaw and teeth of the Wrasse (Labrus) would afford the architect a model of a dome of unusual strength, and so supported as to relieve from pressure the floor of a vaulted chamber beneath. The base of the domeshaped tooth...
Strona 278 - ... particles being either blended with the animal matter of the interspaces and walls of the tubes and cells, or contained in a minutely divided state in their cavities. The tubes and cells contain, besides the calcareous particles, a...
Strona 52 - Whether if there be no spinal tenderness or pain, the soreness of the abdomen be superficial or deep-seated, which may be ascertained with tolerable certainty in all cases, by an examination directed to that end. And whether, if both superficial and deep-seated as it usually is in peritoneal inflammation, gentle, steady pressure with the flat of the hand can be easier borne, than with the points of the fingers. In pain and soreness from affection of the spinal nerves it commonly can be so borne,...
Strona 238 - ... occurs. Sir B. Brodie thinks that it occasions death by destroying the functions of the brain. ('Phil. Trans.' 1818, p. 186.) For this effect he does not consider absorption necessary ; while Dr. Pereira concludes from his experiments, that the intensity of its remote action on the nervous system is in proportion to the absorbing powers of the part to which it is applied (
Strona 144 - E. The advanced stages, or the consecutive or febrile symptoms of the disease, whether those chiefly depending upon the state of the nervous functions, or of the circulation within the brain, or proceeding from the condition of the abdominal viscera, arise partly from the shock received by, and the depression of, the vital energy of the frame in the early stage, partly from the congested condition of the large veins and important viscera, and partly, if not chiefly, from the alterations which had...

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