The London Medical and Surgical Spectator: Or, Monthly Register of Medicine in Its Various Branches : Containing Original Communications; Cases and Reviews in Medicine, Surgery, Midwifery, and Pharmacy; with a Variety of Miscellaneous Matter, and Other, Volume 2

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1809

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Page 383 - A Dictionary of Practical Surgery. Containing a Complete Exhibition of the Principles and Practice of Surgery, collected from the best and most original sources of information, and illustrated by Critical Remarks. By Samuel Cooper, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London, and author of the First Lines of the Practice of Surgery.
Page 305 - Can it possibly be doubted that industry, discretion, frugality, secrecy, order, perseverance, forethought, judgment, and this whole class of virtues and accomplishments, of which many pages would not contain the catalogue ; can it be doubted, I say, that the tendency of these qualities to promote the interest and happiness of their possessor, is the...
Page 41 - ... and scratchings ?" On being answered in the negative, he suddenly threw himself on his knees, extending his arms in a defensive posture, and forcibly throwing back his head and body. The muscles of the face were agitated by various spasmodic contortions, his eye-balls glared and seemed ready to start from their sockets, and at that moment, when crying out in an agonising tone, "Do you not see that black dog?
Page 199 - The London Medical Dictionary ; including under distinct Heads every Branch of Medicine; viz. Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology; the Practice of Physic and Surgery, Therapeutics, and Materia Medica; with whatever relates to Medicine in Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and Natural History.
Page 117 - ... converted an accidental, though frequent occurrence, into a general and necessary cause. Cretinism is frequently observed without any affection of the thyroid gland, and that gland is often very much enlarged without any affection of the intellectual faculties^ There seems to be some similarity between cretinism and rickets, as they both take place in infancy, are both characterized by feebleness of body, and sooner or later by feebleness of mind, and they both affect males and females equally;...
Page 200 - Under Two Years of Age Between Two and Five Five and Ten Ten and Twenty...
Page 50 - ... in the proportion of two parts of the former to one of the latter, and expressible by the symbol H2O.
Page 383 - Articles are fully described, and divided into Classes and Orders, according to their Effects. Their Virtues, Doses, and the Diseases in which they are proper to be Exhibited, are fully pointed out. Interspersed with some Practical Remarks, and some Select Formula:.
Page 41 - I observed; he frequently fixed his eyes, with horror and affright, on some ideal object ; and then, with a sudden and violent motion, buried his head underneath the bed-cloaths.
Page 125 - An inquiry into the symptoms and treatment of carditis or the inflammation of the heart illustrated by cases and dissections (London: Longman, 1808).

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