British and Foreign Medical Review: Or Quarterly Journal of Practical Medicine and Surgery, Volume 21837 |
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Page 118 - Opium, grind these to a powder and then mix the other powders with these. Dose from forty to sixty or seventy grains in a glass of White Wine Posset going to bed. Covering up warm and drinking a quart or three pints of the Posset, drink while sweating.
Page 400 - ... tergiversation and treachery. But a more urgent and important instance of their incapacity and cowardice has burst upon the astonished public in the case of Canada. We shall not attempt to go through the long series of facts and reasonings on this subject which are to be found in the various works, the titles of which we have placed at the head of this article. We are not now about to discuss the details of the Canadian question as between this country and the colony, but as between this country...
Page 281 - It is therefore earnestly recommended that every practising member of any branch of the medical profession who may have been present at the death, or in attendance during the last illness, of any person, shall, immediately after such death, place in the hands of such other persons as were in attendance, of the occupier of the house in which the death occurred, or...
Page 85 - Hunter prepared to fulfil his promise, though he was so well aware of the risk he incurred in undertaking a task which he felt would agitate him, that in mentioning the circumstance to a friend, who called on him in the morning, he expressed his apprehension lest some unpleasant dispute might occur, and his conviction that if it did, it would ' certainly prove fatal to him.
Page 94 - ... (Archbold, p. 367.) By an ' independent circulation ' we can only understand that condition in which breathing is established, and blood no longer passes from the mother to the child. Thus, this state would be proved by a cessation of pulsation in the cord, and the crying or audible respiration of...
Page 136 - I do not hesitate to declare that among the higher classes of society, at least four-fifths of the female patients who are commonly supposed to labour under diseases of the joints, labour under hysteria, and nothing else.
Page 82 - I thank you for your experiment on the hedgehog but why do you ask me a question by the way of solving it ? I think your solution is just, but why think — why not try the experiment...
Page 444 - Finally, the proces-verbal of this sitting was presented to him, and he read very distinctly the date and some words which were more legibly written than the others. In all these experiments the fingers were applied to the whole of the commissure of both eyes, by pressing down the upper upon the under eyelid, and we remarked that the ball of the eye was in a constant rotatory motion, and seemed directed towards the object presented to his vision.
Page 280 - ... persons ignorant of medicine and of the names and nature of diseases ; and it cannot be expected that from his own knowledge he will be able so far to correct their errors as to ensure a statement worthy of credit. The requisite information must therefore be supplied either directly or indirectly by the medical attendant of the deceased person ; — that is to say, if such medical attendant is not applied to by the Registrar, he must afford the requisite information to those other persons to...
Page 395 - By degrees, as the habit becomes more confirmed, his strength continues decreasing, the craving for the stimulus becomes even greater, and, to produce the desired effect, the dose must constantly be augmented. When the dose of two or three drachms a day no longer produces the beatific intoxication so eagerly sought by the Opiophagi, they mix the opium with [corrosive] sublimate, increasing the quantity till it reaches to ten grains a day ; it then acts as a stimulant.