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Page 158 - MEDICAL ANNUAL and Practitioner's Index for 1891. Edited by P. W. Williams, MD, Secretary of Staff, assisted by a corps of thirty-eight collaborators — European and American specialists in their several departments. 600 octavo pages. Illustrated. $2.75. EB Treat, Publisher, 5 Cooper Union, New York. The...
Page 292 - Oh ! nonsense," rejoined Mrs. Squeers. " If the young man comes to be a teacher here, let him understand at once that we don't want any foolery about the boys. They have the brimstone and treacle, partly because if they hadn't something or other in the way of medicine they'd be always ailing and giving a world of trouble, and partly because it spoils their appetites and comes cheaper than breakfast and dinner. So it does them good and us good at the same time, and that's fair enough I'm sure.
Page 16 - There are men and classes of men that stand above the common herd: the soldier, the sailor, and the shepherd not infrequently; the artist rarely; rarelier still the clergyman; the physician almost as a rule.
Page 80 - Pain or numbness in the outer part of the thigh, denotes some disturbance of the sexual organs, in both male and female. Sciatic neuralgia often depends, in females, on inflammation of the ovary ; in men, on irritation of lumbar or sacral nerves. Pain in the heels, in females, may be the only evidence of ovarian abscess, while pain and swelling in the mammae will evince some trouble in the same side of uterus or fallopian tube.
Page 158 - Books of the Year, etc. The arrangement of the work is alphabetical, and with its complete index, makes it a reference book of rare worth. In short, the "Annual" is what it claims to be — a recapitulation of the year's progress in medicine, serving to keep the practitioner abreast of the times with reference to the medical literature of the world.
Page 157 - Powders must be thoroughly moistened ; unless they be so, the powder adhering to the fauces is apt to produce vomiting. Inunctions require a clean surface, and are best made where the epidermis is thin, and the net of lymph-ducts very extensive, as on the inner aspect of the forearm and the thigh.
Page 279 - A large number of persons seem to be of the opinion that the State is bound to take care of the general public and see that it is protected against incompetent persons and quacks. I do not take that view. I think it much more wholesome for the public to take care of itself in this as in all other matters.
Page 215 - The points are protected by corks to prevent injury to the operator's hands. A piece of strong white rubber tube, half an inch in diameter and long enough when tightened in position to go five or six times around the thigh, is now wound very tight around and above the fixation needles and tied.
Page 58 - There is nothing to compare with the tincture or a strong infusion of capsicum annuum mixed with an equal bulk of mucilage of gum arabic and with the addition of a few drops of glycerine.
Page 23 - ... quantity of starch indicated. Dissolve the starch and sugar in the gum solution. Then cook the mixture in a vessel suspended in boiling water until the starch becomes clear. The cement should be as thick as tar, and kept so.