The American Medical Intelligencer: A Concentrated Record of Medical Science and Literature, Volume 1Robley Dunglinson J.J. Haswell, 1838 - Medicine |
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Page 153 - A Dictionary of Practical Medicine: Comprising General Pathology, the Nature and Treatment of Diseases, Morbid Structures, and the Disorders especially...
Page 440 - Hints to Mothers, for the Management of their Health during the Period of Pregnancy and in the Lying-in Room: With an Exposure of Popular Errors in connexion with those subjects, &c.
Page 50 - The Principles of Physiology, applied to the Preservation of Health, and to the Improvement of Physical and Mental Education.
Page 377 - ... having been since shaken by any experiment or rational objection, it may be considered as fairly established, that the first or systolic sound of the heart is essentially caused by the sudden and forcible tightening of the muscular fibres of the ventricles when they contract ; and that the second sound, which accompanies the diastole of the ventricles, depends solely on the reaction of the arterial columns of blood on the semilunar valves at the arterial orifices. It further appears that the...
Page 168 - I finally concluded to make use of that gift which I thought nature, or the God of nature, had implanted in me; and if I possessed such a gift, I had no need of learning, for no one can learn that gift.
Page 256 - A TREATISE on DIET; with a view to establish, on practical grounds, a System of Rules for the Prevention and Cure of the Diseases incident to a disordered state of the Digestive Functions. By JA PARIS, MDFRS Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, ice.
Page 251 - A Treatise on Diet : with a view to Establish on Practical Grounds, a system of Rules for the Prevention and Cure of the Diseases incident to a Disordered state of the Digestive Functions. By JA Paris, MDFRS Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, &c.
Page 200 - Anatomical, Pathological, and Therapeutic Researches upon the Disease known under the name of Gastro-Enterite, Putrid, Adynamic, Ataxic, or Typhoid Fever, &c., compared with the most common Acute Diseases.
Page 422 - We confidently recommend it to the senior as well as junior members of the profession. It is replete with information, yet so terse in style and compressed in bulk as at once to entice and repay perusal."— KBIT.
Page 354 - Generally speaking, so long as the pulse remains good, the bowels and bladder act well, the soft parts remain free from severe pressure, and uterine action continues so as to cause the presenting part to descend ever so slowly, the patient having no pain in the abdomen on pressure, or local distress, the child at the same time being alive, as indicated by the stethoscope, I am satisfied no attempt should be made to deliver with instruments, and that he who does so wantonly exposes both mother and...