London Medical Gazette: Or, Journal of Practical Medicine, Volume 481851 |
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Page 264 - THE WISDOM AND BENEFICENCE OF THE ALMIGHTY, AS DISPLAYED IN THE SENSE OF VISION; being the Actonian Prize Essay for 1851.
Page 346 - That for these reasons it is derogatory to the honour of members of this association to hold any kind of professional intercourse with homoeopathic practitioners.
Page 498 - At last fine weather came, and, to my astonishment, the machine, frequently consulted, far from showing, as it ought to have done, an augmentation of electricity, has given signs less and less sensible, to such a degree that, during the days of the 4th, 5th, and 6th of June, it was impossible to obtain anything but slight cracklings without sparks. On the 7th of June the machine remained quite dumb.
Page 290 - It is admitted that there is no point in physiology more clearly made out than that the...
Page 41 - Transactions of a Society for the Improvement of Medical and Chirurgical Knowledge.
Page 135 - THE MODE IN WHICH THERAPEUTIC AGENTS INTRODUCED INTO THE STOMACH PRODUCE THEIR PECULIAR EFFECTS ON THE ANIMAL ECONOMY. Being the Prize Essay to which the Medical Society of London awarded the Fothergillian • • Gold Medal for 1852.
Page 308 - Familiar Letters on Chemistry, in its relations to physiology, Dietetics, Agriculture, Commerce, and Political Economy. By JUSTUS VON LIEBIG.
Page 18 - Once, and once only in his life, the dormant power awakened ; it was by a bed of stocks in full bloom, at a house which he inhabited in Dorsetshire, some...
Page 196 - The ordinary lateral expansion of the diaphragmatic or lower ribs is greater, and the extreme expansion is usually less, than the respective ordinary and extreme expansion of the thoracic or upper ribs. The expansion of the second ribs is usually alike on both sides; below, all the inspiratory movements, especially those over the heart, are usually somewhat less on the left side than on the right, both during ordinary and extreme inspiration.
Page 84 - ... formidable disease than the presence of a discharge from the external auditory meatus ; and that, consequently, no person suffering from catarrhal inflammation of the dermoid layer of the meatus, the membrana tympani, or of the mucous membrane of the tympanum, can be assured that disease is not being...