The London Medical and Physical Journal, Volume 6J. Souter, 1801 - Medicine |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
acid affected alfo almoft alſo ammonia animal antimony Apoplexy appearance arife artery atmoſphere attended becauſe blood cafe Carbonat carbonic acid caufe cauſe circumftance colour confequence confiderable confift conftitution courfe Cow-pox cure diarrhoea difcharge difcovered difeafe diffolved diforder diſeaſe dolens faid fame fays fecond feems feparated ferous feven feveral fhall fhort fhould fide fimilar fince firft fituation fize fkin fluid fmall folution fome fometimes foon frequently ftate ftill ftomach fubftance fubject fuccefs fuch fuffered fufficient fuppofed furface furgeon fwelling fyftem fymptoms hofpitals increaſed infection inflammation inftance inoculated itſelf labium laft lefs likewife limb lime lymphatics Medical and Phyfical medicine membranes Menorrhagia moft moſt muft muriatic muriatic acid neceffary nitric acid obferved occafioned opium pain patient perfons Phlegmatia Phyfical Journal phyficians poffible prevent puftule pulfe purpoſe quantity refpect refult Small-pox ſtate thefe theſe thofe thoſe tion Typhus ufual ulcers uſe uterus Vaccine Variolous veffels
Popular passages
Page 213 - between the plates is capable of oxydating the zinc, and that, in proportion as a greater quantity of oxygen enters into combination with the zinc in a given time, fo in proportion is the power of the pile to decompofe water, and to give the fhock greater
Page 11 - fimply of a fmall graduated tube, having its capacity divided into one hundred parts, and greateft at the open end ; and of a veflel for containing the fluid. " The tube, after being filled with the air to be examined, is introduced into the folution ; and, that the
Page 67 - and took much intereft in the refult of the experiments you were making. Every friend of humanity muft look with pleafure on this difcovery, by which one evil more is withdrawn from the condition of man ; and muft contemplate the
Page 11 - of iron, diflblved to faturation in, water.* As the gas is abforbed, the folution becomes of a deep olive brown, and when the impregnation is completed it appears opaque and almoft black. The procefs is apparently owing to a fimple elective attraction; in no cafe is the gas
Page 12 - after this period, the volume of the refidual gas begins to be a little increafed, and, after fome hours, it will often fill a fpace greater by feveral of the hundred parts on the fcale of the tube, than that which it occupied at the maximum of abforption.
Page 556 - A Treatife on the Cow-pox, containing the Hiftory of Vaccine Inoculation, and an Account of the various Publications which have appeared on that Subject in Great Britain, and other Parts of the World.
Page 11 - and, in confequence of the dark colour of the fluid, it is eafy to difcover the quantity of abforption. In a few minutes the experiment is completed, and the whole of the oxygen condenfed by the nitrous gas in the folution in the form of nitrous acid. In
Page 51 - An Inquiry into the Nature and Cause of that Swelling, in one or both of the lower Extremities^ which sometimes happens
Page 508 - may be laid down as a general principle, that, in delicate experiments, whether analytical or fynthetical, fire (that potent and once believed to be univerfal agent) is too precarious in its means, and too uncertain in its application, to be employed with full and confiant fuccefs. And, if it is
Page 282 - arranged, that no two of them interfere with each other in the hours of attendance ; and the whole is calculated to form a complete