MEDICAL REVIEW

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Page 610 - as a witness or witnesses, and for the performance of a post-mortem examination, with or without an analysis of the contents of the stomach or intestines, whether such an examination has been performed before or not; and if the coroner, having been thereunto required, shall refuse to issue such order, he shall
Page 610 - and after the passing of this act, whenever, upon the summoning or holding of any coroner's inquest, it shall appear to the coroner that the deceased person was attended at his death, or during his last illness, by any legally qualified medical practitioner, it shall be lawful for
Page 610 - partly or entirely by the improper or negligent treatment of any medical practitioner or other person, such medical practitioner or other person shall not be allowed to perform or assist at the post-mortem examination of the deceased.
Page 332 - it is perceptible; being sometimes on the right and sometimes on the left side of the chest, and occasionally disappearing altogether when the patient is lying in a supine posture. As for the fluctuation seen by Senac, and felt by Corvisart, M. Bouillaud's
Page 611 - either with or without an analysis of the contents of the stomach or intestines, and for attending to give evidence thereon, the fee or remuneration shall be two guineas.
Page 217 - The author had occasion to observe, many years ago, that the Bonito (Thynnus pelamys, Cuv.) had a temperature of 99° of Fahr. when the surrounding medium was 80° 5, and that it, therefore, constituted an exception to the generally received rule that fishes are universally cold-blooded. Having found that the gills of the common Thunny of the Mediterranean
Page 68 - it acts I will not pretend to explain; it is sufficient to say, that there is no remedy from which, in such cases, such unequivocal benefit is derived. It operates energetically, though not very rapidly, in controlling many of those symptoms which create most alarm. It seems to counteract the tendency to tympanitis, to correct the
Page 74 - which must be considered a moderate mortality under any circumstances: however, when it is considered that this includes not only all the deaths that occurred in children born prematurely, and in twins, but also every instance where the heart even acted, or where respiration ceased in a few seconds after birth, the proportion of deaths becomes trifling indeed.
Page 428 - the animals had been invariably kept under water from the first moment of their submersion, and thus in a condition but little favorable to the exercise of deglutition. Water does not readily penetrate into the stomach of a subject which has been thrown in after death, the parietes of the
Page 428 - of the oesophagus applying themselves too closely to each other to allow of the passage of the fluid. If putrefaction has advanced to any extent, it is possible that water may enter : but the practitioner will easily judge from the

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