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Sydenham Society, 1901 - 363 pages
 

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Page 33 - The accounts of the receipts and expenditure of the Society shall be audited annually by two Auditors, to be elected at the Annual General Meeting; an abstract of such accounts shall be printed for the use of the Members.
Page 129 - To live in and breathe freely the open air, without being deterred by the wind or weather, is one important and essential remedy in arresting its progress — one about which there appears to have generally prevailed a groundless alarm lest the consumptive patient should take cold.
Page 90 - After diagnosis of placenta praevia is made, we proceed as early as possible to terminate pregnancy. 2. When once we have commenced to act, we are to remain by our patient. 3. If the os be fully expanded and placenta marginal, we rupture the membranes and wait to see if the head is soon pushed by the pains into the os. 4. If there be any slowness or hesitation in this respect, then we employ forceps or version.
Page 134 - The patient ought never to be deterred by the state of the weather from exercise in the open air ; if wet and rainy, a covered vehicle should be employed, with open windows. The cold is never too severe for the consumptive patient in this climate. The cooler the air which passes into the lungs the greater will be the benefit the patient will derive. Sharp, frosty days in the winter season are most favourable. The application of cold pure air to the interior surface of the lungs is the most powerful...
Page 195 - ... member of a family in which cancer has frequently occurred, and who is at or beyond middle age, the risk is certainly very great that such an eruption on the areola as I have described will be followed within a year or two by cancer of the breast. Should not, then, the whole diseased portion of skin be destroyed or removed as soon as it appears incurable by milder means ? I have had this done in two cases, but, I think, too late.
Page 21 - BONDERS on the Accommodation and Refraction of the Eye. 23. A YEARBOOK for 1863. 24. ATLAS of Portraits of Skin Diseases. (4th Fasciculus). 1865. (Seventh Year.) 25.
Page 254 - I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints shall shout aloud for joy.
Page 194 - In some of the cases the eruption has presented the characters of an ordinary chronic eczema. with minute vesications. succeeded by soft. moist. yellowish scabs or scales. and constant viscid exudation. In some it has been like psoriasis. dry. with a few white scales slowly desquamating; and in both these forms. especially in the psoriasis.
Page 163 - ... on the left side was observed to extend considerably below the left hypochondrium, but was reported not to be so large as it had formerly been. The glands on the left side of the neck were swollen, as well as those on the right; the abdomen was somewhat distended, and there was considerable oedema of the scrotum. "The head was not opened. "The glands in the neck had assumed the form of large smooth ovoid masses, connected together merely by loose cellular membrane and minute vessels: when cut...
Page 177 - It presented a lobulated structure; the lobules varying from the size of a small pea to that of a large...

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