The Medico-chirurgical Review, and Journal of Practical Medicine1840 - Medicine |
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... Removal of part of the Sphincter for Prolapsus Ani 13. Leech Gathering in Russia .. 14. Advantages granted to Naval Medical Officers Bibliographical Notices . 1. Traité Philosophique de Medecine Pratique . Par A. N. Gendrin , D.M ... 2 ...
... Removal of part of the Sphincter for Prolapsus Ani 13. Leech Gathering in Russia .. 14. Advantages granted to Naval Medical Officers Bibliographical Notices . 1. Traité Philosophique de Medecine Pratique . Par A. N. Gendrin , D.M ... 2 ...
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... removed to the frontier settlements of the Cape of Good Hope ; and in 1819 the whole corps was disbanded and re- placed by the 2nd West India Regiment , composed , with the exception of a few serjeants , entirely of negroes . In 1823 ...
... removed to the frontier settlements of the Cape of Good Hope ; and in 1819 the whole corps was disbanded and re- placed by the 2nd West India Regiment , composed , with the exception of a few serjeants , entirely of negroes . In 1823 ...
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... removed to the village of Wilberforce , at an elevation of 500 feet , with the view of keeping them free from fever , they suffered even to a greater extent than on board the shipping in the harbour . The common continued fever being ...
... removed to the village of Wilberforce , at an elevation of 500 feet , with the view of keeping them free from fever , they suffered even to a greater extent than on board the shipping in the harbour . The common continued fever being ...
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... removed to head - quarters ; of the remainder only one died , between January and July of the following year , when all the white troops were withdrawn from the station . During the whole of this dreadful mortality , a detachment of ...
... removed to head - quarters ; of the remainder only one died , between January and July of the following year , when all the white troops were withdrawn from the station . During the whole of this dreadful mortality , a detachment of ...
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... removed by the use of medicine and a mild diet , ultimately terminated in severe dysentery . At this time also no such disease prevailed among the civil inhabitants , or the soldiers of the colonial corps which had been disbanded , nor ...
... removed by the use of medicine and a mild diet , ultimately terminated in severe dysentery . At this time also no such disease prevailed among the civil inhabitants , or the soldiers of the colonial corps which had been disbanded , nor ...
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Page 294 - Much victuals serves for gluttony, to fatten men like swine, ' But he's a frugal man indeed that with a leaf can dine, ' And needs no napkins for his hands his finger's ends to wipe, ' But keeps his kitchen in a box, and roast meat in a pipe.
Page 291 - Carmen Are got into the yellow starch, and chimney sweepers To their tobacco, and strong waters, Hum, Meath and Obarni...
Page 131 - The granules thus deposited vary in size, from that of a grain of sand to that of...
Page 393 - But what I would chiefly urge is, that for all these horrors their system of religion is mainly answerable, inasmuch as whatever moral lessons their sacred books contain, and they are very few, are shut up from the mass of the people, while the direct tendency of their institutions is to evil. The national temper is decidedly good, gentle and kind ; they are sober, industrious, affectionate to their relations, generally speaking, faithful to their masters, easily attached by kindness and confidence,...
Page 409 - Incurables, and found that in the lowest class of idiots, where the intellectual manifestations were null, the horizontal circumference, taken a little higher than the orbit, varied from eleven to thirteen inches, while the distance from the root of the nose backwards, over the top of the head, to the occipital spine, was only between eight and nine inches ; and he found no exception to this fact.
Page 248 - The oil glands of the skin are distributed over all the surface except the palms of the hands and soles of the feet. The oily matter is usually poured out around the hairs as they emerge from the skin. It serves to oil the hair and the skin, and keep them from becoming too dry. Composition of Sweat. — Sweat is mostly water; about one per cent is solid matter, including salt and certain matters which, like the organic...
Page 294 - Which feed men fat as swine: He is a frugal man indeed That on a leaf can dine. He needs no napkin for his hands His fingers' ends to wipe, That keeps his kitchen in a box, And roast meat in a pipe.
Page 221 - VIII) is from one and a half to two and a half inches in length, and from one-fourth to three fourths of an inch in diameter.
Page 291 - They cannot wait until the smoke of the infernal regions surrounds them, but encompass themselves with smoke of their own accord, and .drink a poison which God made black, that it might bear the devil's color.
Page 290 - If there be any such generous spirit, that is truly enamour'd of these good faculties ; may it please him but by a note of his hand to specify the place or ordinary where he uses to eat and lie ; and most sweet attendance with tobacco and pipes of the best sort, shall be ministered.