Charleston Medical Journal and Review, Volume 4Burges & James., 1849 - Medicine |
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Page 222 - The faculty of every regularly constituted medical college or chartered school of medicine shall have the privilege of sending two delegates. The professional staff of every chartered or municipal hospital, containing a hundred inmates or more, shall have the privilege of sending two delegates, — and every other permanently organized medical institution of good standing shall have the privilege of sending one delegate.
Page 222 - Each State, county and district medical society entitled to representation shall have the privilege of sending to the Association one delegate for every ten of its regular resident members, and one for every additional fraction of more than half that number...
Page 296 - All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance : it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals.
Page 296 - If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of the pick-axe, or of one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion ; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains are levelled, and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings.
Page 246 - All the conditions were equally indispensable to the production of the consequent; and the statement of the cause is incomplete, unless in some shape or other we introduce them all.
Page 414 - This method combines with great exactness such simplicity of execution, that it is frequently resorted to as the easiest method of testing the purity of a substance ; and it is generally admitted that to its invention must be ascribed the rapid progress of organic chemistry within the last few years. The process consists in burning the organic substance together with oxide of copper or chromate of lead, by which its carbon is converted into carbonic acid and its hydrogen into water, both of which...
Page 679 - ... is a process so indefinitely separated from that of the formation of puscells, that union by primary adhesion is much more likely to pass into suppuration than any process is in which no lymph is formed. In describing the modes of healing by...
Page 689 - I need hardly say, is a very common event), the effused fluid, collecting under the scab, produces pain, compresses the wounded surface, or forces off the scab, with great discomfort to the patient and retardation of the healing. I suspect that the many instances of disappointment from this cause have led to the general neglect of the process of scabbing in the treatment of wounds. The observance of perfect rest, and of the other means for warding off inflammation...
Page 519 - ... put on and wore a day or two after his arrival at his native village. He was shortly thereafter seized with cholera and died of it : three women, who had watched him in sickness and washed his body after death, were also seized and died of the disease : the doctor arrived in time to see the fourth case, and, finding that it spread on that side of the village, he had the common street barricaded on the side where the disease had not reached, and interdicted all communication to the two sides of...
Page 217 - Small superficial ulcerations of the corona glandis and prepuce, caused by excoriation, were cured by a single application, and in a gentleman very susceptible of excoriation, it acted admirably as a prophylactic. From the success of the latter trial, I am inclined to think that it might be usefully employed as a prophylactic, in cases of exposure to syphilitic contagion. When properly applied, the collodion enters all the crevices of the lines of motion of the skin, and adheres so firmly as to require...