Transactions of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama

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Page 86 - An act to provide for the establishment, maintenance and support of a bureau, to be known as the State Mining Bureau, and for the appointment and duties of a board of trustees, to be known as the board of trustees of the State Mining Bureau...
Page 142 - That from and after the passage of this act it shall be unlawful for any person, not a registered pharmacist within the meaning of this act, to conduct any pharmacy, drug store, apothecary shop or store for the purpose of retailing, compounding or dispensing medicines or poisons for medicinal use, except as hereinafter provided.
Page 142 - An Act to regulate the practice of pharmacy and the sale of poisons in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes," approved May 7, 1906, as amended.
Page 333 - For instance, prostatectomy may be necessary, villus papilloma may be found and should be remedied ; predunculated growths may be found which should be removed by the scissors or Paquelin's cautery, etc. In such cases, the opening in the bladder sufficient to introduce the finger, should be enlarged downwards under the symphysis pubis and the operation indicated should at once be performed.
Page 235 - The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed.
Page 118 - In most of our Southern communities refugees from an infected place may return safely after the appearance of a killing frost. In the present state of our knowledge it is not possible to say whether or not frost kills the yellow fever poison, but the experience of many hundreds of epidemics shows beyond all controversy that it puts an end to the prevalence of the fever.
Page 235 - But me, not destined such delights to share, My prime of life in wandering spent and care ; Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view ; That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies ; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own.
Page 54 - ... signed by the ticket agent at point where through ticket to the place of meeting was purchased, and countersigned by the secretary or clerk of the convention, certifying that the holder has been, in attendance upon the convention.
Page 326 - ... so slight that patients suffering from almost any vesical trouble are encouraged to have the bladder opened for diagnostic purposes and treatment at a time when the general health remains unimpaired; a practice which, a few years ago, would not have been resorted to by the most aggressive surgeon. Catarrh of the bladder, irrespective of its cause, is always followed by a series of consecutive pathological changes which, independently of the partial or complete interruption of the passage of the...
Page 330 - ... causing infiltration. And, too, such a procedure gives a smooth incision throughout, and it is almost impossible to have infiltration, even when no drainage tube is left in the bladder, and the urine is left to flow out through the fistulous track and taken up by a layer of absorbent cotton. In making the incision into the bladder, no attention is to be paid to any vein or veins which are sometimes met with. If cut they will stop bleeding when the bladder is dropped back and the rectal bag removed....

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