The Medical Gazette: A Weekly Journal of Medicine, Surgery, and the Collateral Sciences, Volume 4Bermingham & Company, 1878 - Medicine |
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Page 9 - ... organic substances. It also promotes nutrition and blood changes by supplying to the respiratory organs a most active form of oxygen. Therefore, when choosing a health resort for phthisical invalids, we should give the preference to a locality in which there is constantly an excess of ozone in the air, for experience has established the fact that there the climate is especially salubrious. For some years pulmonary invalids have been recommended to take up their abode in the midst of pine forests;...
Page 348 - ... no person duly authorized to practice physic or surgery shall be allowed to disclose any information which he may have acquired in attending any patient, in a professional character, and which information was necessary to enable him to prescribe for such patient as a physician, or to do any act for him, as a surgeon.
Page 319 - THE NATIONAL DISPENSATORY: Containing the Natural History, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Actions and Uses of Medicines...
Page 319 - MD, LL. D., Surgeon to the Woman's Hospital, New York, etc. The Principles and Practice of Gynaecology ; For the use of Students and Practitioners of Medicine.
Page 497 - There is no end of my kind treatment from the faculty ; they are in general the most amiable companions, and the best friends, as well as the most learned men, I know.
Page 18 - Boston Daily Advertiser, May 4, 1878. The metric system is already legalized in both America and England. The only question now is, which of the two, the most progressive or the most conservative nation on earth, shall be the first to definitely and finally adopt it as an exclusive system? [NB — England was...
Page 320 - MD, Professor of Physiology in the University of Pennsylvania. A System of Human Anatomy, Including Its Medical and Surgical Relations. For the use of Practitioners and Students of Medicine. With an Introductory Section on Histology. By EO SHAKESPEARE, MD, Ophthalmologist to the Philadelphia Hospital. Comprising 813...
Page 9 - ... where the air is driest. Undoubtedly, a damp warm as well as a damp cold climate acts unfavorably upon phthisical invalids, but the peculiar dampness which acts most unfavorably is not usually present in those localities where there is the greatest amount of rain-fall, nor is it present because large bodies of water are in close proximity, but it mainly depends upon the nature of the soil.
Page 233 - If you do not succeed at first, do it repeatedly. 3. Copious enemata, aided perhaps by the long tube, are advisable in almost all cases, and in most should be frequently repeated. 4. Fluid injections may be sometimes replaced by insufflation of air in cases of invagination, since air finds its way upwards better, and is more easily retained. It is, however, somewhat dangerous, and has. perhaps, no advantage over injections with the trunk inverted.
Page 232 - In middle age, the causes of obstruction may be various; but intussusception and malignant disease, both of them common at the extremes, are now very unusual.