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Page 155 - Replace the patient on the face, raising and supporting the chest well on a folded coat or other article of dress.
Page 155 - Many other methods of resuscitation which have been recommended were employed, including actual cautery, venesection, cold splash, alternate application of hot and cold water, galvanism, puncture of the diaphragm. Although some of the above means were occasionally of manifest advantage, no one was of such unequivocal efficacy in a sufficient number of cases as to warrant the Committee in specially recommending its adoption. The experiments upon the dead subject were made with a view to determine...
Page 368 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man, As modest stillness, and humility : But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...
Page 182 - Justices and clerks of courts of record ; judges and registers of probate and insolvency ; registers of deeds, and sheriffs ; officers who have held or may hold commissions in the regular or volunteer army or navy of the United States ; officers who have held, for a period of five years, commissions in the militia of this or any other state of the United States, or who have been superseded and discharged, or who...
Page 470 - Having passed a probe into this opening, I detected what I at first supposed to be a large piece of necrosed bone, which could be slightly moved. As he could not open his mouth more than a quarter of an inch, I failed in ascertaining the state of its interior. I examined the nasal cavity with the speculum, but discovered nothing abnormal. As the man's health was rapidly giving way under the irritation and constant discharges to which he was subjected, I advised him to submit to an operation, to which...
Page 435 - I have thus been enabled to make myself acquainted with their sanitary condition and medical wants. I hope, ere long, to be able to extend these inspections to the west. A uniform diet table for General Hospitals has been prepared with great care, and promises to work advantageously. Large depots of medical supplies have been established at New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Fortress Monroe, Washington, Cincinnati, Cairo, St. Louis, and Nashville, which have proved of incalculable advantage to the...
Page 241 - Surgeon-General for the government of the Ambulance Corps are strictly observed by those under his command. It shall be his duty to institute a drill in his Corps, instructing his men in the most easy and expeditious manner of moving the sick and wounded, and to require in all cases that the sick and wounded shall be treated with gentleness and care...
Page 213 - He then summed up his conclusions thus : — 1. Nature has provided in the salivary glands, the liver and the lungs of every mammal an apparatus for converting all food, especially farinaceous, into alcohol ; and we have no evidence that such conversion docs not take place.
Page 172 - I have witnessed it in those who were undeniably consumptive, or in those who were too justly suspected of being so. I cannot say in what proportion of the phthisical it occurs; but I am continually meeting with it.
Page 181 - That each and every free ablebodied white male citizen of the respective states, resident therein, who is or shall be of the age of eighteen years, and under the age of forty-five years . . . shall severally and respectively be enrolled in the militia...