The Medico-chirurgical Review, and Journal of Practical Medicine1843 - Medicine |
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... increased action ; tonics give power ; but , according to the author's own words , " action is not power . ' We fully agree with the author , when , he says , we must at once perceive how imperfect must be every classification that does ...
... increased action ; tonics give power ; but , according to the author's own words , " action is not power . ' We fully agree with the author , when , he says , we must at once perceive how imperfect must be every classification that does ...
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... increasing activity , and thus , as it were , by an ascending scale , will the energies of every part be gradually and permanently increased , and the gene- ral standard of strength raised . To ensure , however , this desirable result ...
... increasing activity , and thus , as it were , by an ascending scale , will the energies of every part be gradually and permanently increased , and the gene- ral standard of strength raised . To ensure , however , this desirable result ...
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... increased , we may em- ploy an astringent , properly so called , which will repress this discharge immediately and directly ; or we may employ opium , which , though it may not arrest the discharge , may render the mucous surface ...
... increased , we may em- ploy an astringent , properly so called , which will repress this discharge immediately and directly ; or we may employ opium , which , though it may not arrest the discharge , may render the mucous surface ...
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... increased reaction between the blood and oxygen the fibrine becomes increased and the blood - corpuscles diminished , and that in case of impeded re - action the quantity of fibrine becomes di- minished . The results of experience also ...
... increased reaction between the blood and oxygen the fibrine becomes increased and the blood - corpuscles diminished , and that in case of impeded re - action the quantity of fibrine becomes di- minished . The results of experience also ...
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... increased , diminished , or natural . The oxalic - acid dia- thesis of the urine indicates , according to Prout , functional disturbances in the chylopoietic system ; albuminuria ordinarily indicates dropsy and an affection of the ...
... increased , diminished , or natural . The oxalic - acid dia- thesis of the urine indicates , according to Prout , functional disturbances in the chylopoietic system ; albuminuria ordinarily indicates dropsy and an affection of the ...
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Page 281 - I have referred rests on this doctrine : ' the population is increasing in a geometrical progression, the means of subsistence in an arithmetical progression, and unless wars, destructive epidemics, marshes, dense towns, close workshops, and other deadly agents, carry off the excess of the numbers born — unless the outlets of life and blood be left open — the whole people must be exposed to a slow process of starvation.
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Page 174 - It is not a question of time. It is a question of being. It is not a question of...
Page 359 - The subject here presented is one of the most important that can engage the attention of the profession. The volume should be generally read, as the subject-matter is of great importance to society.
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Page 258 - A living body has no power of forming elements, or of converting one elementary substance into another ^ ; and it therefore follows that the elements of which the body of an animal is composed must be the elements of its food.
Page 306 - Humus acts in the same manner in a soil permeable to air as in the air itself; it is a continued source of carbonic acid, which it emits very slowly. An atmosphere of carbonic acid, formed at the expense of the air, surrounds every particle of decaying humus.
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Page 304 - The proper, constant, and inexhaustible sources of oxygen gas are the tropics and warm climates, where a sky seldom clouded permits the glowing rays of the sun to shine upon an immeasurably luxuriant vegetation.
Page 308 - The process of assimilation, in its most simple form, consists in the extraction of hydrogen from water, and carbon from carbonic acid, in consequence of which, either all the oxygen of the water and carbonic acid is separated, as in the formation of caoutchouc, the volatile oils which contain no oxygen, and other similar substances, or only a part of it is exhaled.