Year-book of medicine, surgery and their allied sciences. 1861

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1862
 

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Page 28 - Diagrams of the Nerves of the Human Body, exhibiting their Origin, Divisions, and Connexions, with their Distribution to the various Regions of the Cutaneous Surface, and to all the Muscles. By WILLIAM H.
Page 6 - The carbonic acid is formed in the body by the combination of the oxygen of the air with the carbon of the blood.
Page 231 - A System of Surgery, Theoretical and Practical, in Treatises by Various Authors.
Page 231 - Cooper's Dictionary of Practical Surgery and Encyclopaedia of Surgical Science. New Edition, brought down to the present time. By SA LANE, Surgeon to St. Mary's Hospital, &c.
Page 54 - Smith says:—"We need not refer to the action of alcohol in lessening consciousness, the perception of light and sound, and the diminution of muscular power; for where a full ordinary dose is taken, they may be perceived in every halfdrunken man In less doses, these effects are either less evident, or they are not at all perceptible ; but in whatever dose, the direction of the action of the alcohol must be the same. It is impossible that a small dose of alcohol shall directly increase muscular power;...
Page 3 - ... therefore, to show that real action, both physical and vital, may be seated in minute particles, or molecules much smaller than cells, and that we must obtain a knowledge of such action in these molecules if we desire to comprehend the laws of organization. To this end the author directed attention...
Page 3 - ... matter of the sensory ganglia, and of the brain, which furnishes the conditions necessary for the exercise of secretion, and of even intellect itself, is associated with layers of molecules which are unquestionably active in producing the various modifications of nervous force. These molecules are constant and permanent as an integral part of these tissues, as much as cells or fibres are essential parts of others, and their function is not transitory, but essential to the organs to which they...
Page 103 - It is a singular fact, confirmed by the examination of nearly 200 cases at St. Marylebone, in which the hemispheres were weighed separately, that almost invariably the weight of the left exceeded that of the right by at least the eighth of an ounce.
Page 75 - Society's apparatus, is the first remedy, and the shock of the warm bath the second ; that, after eight minutes' complete submersion, recovery is hopeless, and that, when ten minutes elapse after being taken from the •water without any effort at respiration, it is equally so. On the subject of the warm bath, which has excited so much discussion as a remedy, he remarked, that it must be understood that it is used as an immediate and powerful excitant ; and it had so frequently happened (twice while...
Page 48 - HASSALL, MD Lond., Analyst of The Lancet Sanitary Commission ; and Author of the Reports of that Commission published under the title of Food and its Adulterations (which may also be had, in 8vo.

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