London Medical Gazette: Or, Journal of Practical Medicine, Volume 8; Volume 43

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1849

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Page 353 - At first small gray specks or elevated gray spots (glanders-nodules), varying in size from that of a pin's head to that of a pea, make their appearance (Fig.
Page 23 - WE, THE POOR LAW COMMISSIONERS, in pursuance of the authorities vested in Us by an Act passed in the fifth year of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled "An Act for the Amendment and better Administration of the Laws relating to the Poor in England and Wales...
Page 518 - It might be so, but he thought not, and making every allowance for the bias and prejudice inseparable from the hope or vanity of an original discovery, he confessed that he felt it very difficult to be persuaded that it was so. On the contrary, he could not help entertaining a very strong impression that these hitherto mysterious...
Page 40 - Jan. 1 1. [The Queen has been pleased to direct Letters Patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, granting the dignity of a Baron of the said United Kingdom unto Alfred Tennyson, Esq., and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten...
Page 309 - ... death by suicide, sane or insane," lies in the mental capability In the one case and the absence of it in the other to appreciate the moral nature and quality of the purpose.
Page 203 - Dubois' conclusions, as officially reported in the Bulletin de 1' Academic, were as follows : — s 1. The inhalation of ether can annul the pain of obstetrical operations. 2. It can suspend the physiological pains of labour. 3. It destroys neither the uterine contractions, nor the contractions of the abdominal muscles. 4. It diminishes the natural resistance of the perineum. 5. It does not appear to act unfavourably on the health or life of the infant.
Page 307 - It instantly suggested itself to me, that a plate having a coat of this salt might be rendered available as the negative plate in a voltaic arrangement, and that a battery might be thus formed of one metal, zinc, alone. After a long series of experiments, which I need not detail, it was found that sheet zinc continued inactive in a mixture of nitric and sulphuric acids, in the proportion of one part of the former to five of the latter; and that a battery formed of a porous cell, including a plate...
Page 26 - CARSON (JOSEPH), MD, Professor of Materia Medica and Pharmacy in the University of Pennsylvania. SYNOPSIS OF THE COURSE OF LECTURES ON MATERIA MEDICA AND PHARMACY, delivered in the University of Pennsylvania.
Page 506 - ... with variolous matter, or by wilful exposure to variolous matter, or to any matter, article, or thing impregnated with variolous matter, or wilfully by any other means whatsoever produce the disease of smallpox in any person in England...
Page 53 - How often a disturbance of circulation plays an important part in uterine haemorrhage it is difficult for an individual to know; but I suspect sufficiently often to deserve the especial attention of practitioners. I advise them when they meet with patients subject to haemorrhage after delivery, to notice the state of circulation before labour, and if disturbed, to employ means for tranquillizing it before labour comes on.

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