The Philadelphia Medical Museum, Volume 3

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John Redman Coxe
John Redman Coxe, 1807 - Medicine
Includes a section called Medical and philosophical register.
 

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Page 2 - An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned." And also to the act, entitled " An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, " An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time therein mentioned...
Page 2 - District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " THE CHILD'S BOTANY," In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, " An act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned...
Page xxx - ... verum ubi plura nitent in carmine, non ego paucis offendar maculis, quas aut incuria fudit aut humana parum cavit natura.
Page iii - ... exceeding all likelihood or belief. All the bones are tinged in twenty-four hours : in two or three days their colour is very deep : and if the madder be left off but for a few days, the red colour is entirely removed.
Page lxvi - It was not easy to think of any sort of skin or natural integument that exactly resembled it. Some compared it to the bark of a tree ; others thought it looked like seal-skin ; others like the skin of an elephant, or the skin about the legs of...
Page lxvii - Weeks, after •which, without his being sick, it began to turn yellow, as if he had had the Jaundice; from which by degrees it changed black, and in a little time afterwards thickened, and grew into that State it appeared in at present.
Page clxxxi - ... wire ; and the latter a minute thread of glass, having its two ends formed into small knobs, by fusion in the flame of a candle. The magnetical bit of wire lies in the vacant space of the mercurial thermometer, and is pushed forward by the mercury...
Page cxcix - This proved it to be a lobe of the prostate gland, the middle of which had a rounded form, united to the gland at the base next the bladder, but rendered a separate lobe by two fissures on its opposite surface. Its ducts passed directly through the coats of the bladder, on which it lay, and opened immediately behind the verumontanum. By means of this lobe a circular aperture is formed in the prostate gland, which gives passage to the vasa deferentia.
Page cxcvii - ... of an inch in breadth, extended from the middle line of the tumour to the bulb of the urethra, where it insensibly disappeared. The usual rounded projection of the caput gallinaginis was not visible : it had wasted away, and the remains were concealed in the fold forming this bridle, which at that part was not thicker than at any other.
Page xxx - All comes united to th' admiring eyes ; No monftrous height, or breadth, or length appear ; The Whole at once is bold, and regular. Whoever thinks a faultlefs piece to fee, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er fhall be.

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