Kansas City Medical Journal, Volume 2, Issue 3

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1872
 

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Page 195 - Culpable negligence is the omission to do something which a reasonable, prudent, and honest man would do, or the doing of something which such a man would not do, under all the circumstances surrounding the particular case : Shearman & Redfield on Negligence, § 7 ; Kay v.
Page 193 - To my mind, it matters not whether a man has received a medical education or not; the thing to look at is, whether, in reference to the remedy he has used, and the conduct he has displayed, he has acted with a due degree of caution, or, on the contrary, has acted with gross and improper rashness, and want of caution.
Page 181 - ... of paroxysms which, previously to its administration, had been very frequent. In each case a grain was given every hour, rubbed up with a little mucilage of acacia. Three doses were sufficient in one, and two in the other case. The children were aged respectively fifteen and eighteen months.
Page 196 - ... his testimony, the consequences to him relating from the result of this trial, and all the inducements and temptations which would ordinarily influence a person in his situation.
Page 195 - It does not require from any man superhuman wisdom or foresight. Therefore no one is guilty of culpable negligence by reason of failing to take precautions which no other man would be likely to take under the circumstances.
Page 181 - This was a very favorable result, as all previous seizures had lasted for from five to eleven days, uninfluenced by medication or moral suasion. I have also employed it with excellent effect in several cases of headache occurring in women and young girls, and due to mental excitement and excessive study. One dose of four grains was generally sufficient to cut short the attack. In two cases, three doses at intervals of half an hour were necessary. In wakefulness, the result as it so generally is of...
Page 195 - ... circumstances. If one uses every precaution which the present state of science affords, and which a reasonable man would use under the circumstances, he is not responsible for omitting other precautions which are conceivable, even though if he had used them the injury would certainly have been avoided.
Page 182 - In those exhausted conditions of the nervous system attended with great irritability, such as are frequently met with in hysterical women, and which are indicated by headache, vertigo, insomnia, and a mental condition of extreme excitement, Bromide of Calcium has proved in my hands of decided service. Combined with the syrup of the lacto-phosphate of lime, it scarcely leaves anything to be desired. An eligible formula is : R Calcii Bromidi, gj.
Page 198 - I expect to convince most readers, that the essential seat of every true neuralgia is the posterior root of the spinal nerve, in which the pain is felt, and that the essential condition of the tissue of that nerve-root is atrophy, which is usually non-inflammatory in origin.
Page 175 - The resulting liquid, after being strained, is, if not clear, set aside for at least 24 hours in order to allow the mucus to settle. To the clarified liquid the same bulk of a saturated solution of sodium chloride is added, and the whole thoroughly mixed. After several hours the pepsin, which, by the addition of chloride of sodium, has separated from its solution, is found floating on the surface, from whence it is removed with a spoon and put upon cotton cloth to drain ¡ finally it is submitted...

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