Saint Bartholomew's Hospital Reports, Volume 11

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1875
 

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Page 166 - Wel knew he the olde Esculapius, And Deiscorides, and eek Rufus; Old Ypocras, Haly, and Galien; Serapion, Razis, and Avicen; Averrois, Damascien, and Constantyn; Bernard, and Gatesden, and Gilbertyn."* Of his diete mesurable** was he, For it was of no superfluitee, But of greet norissing and digestible.
Page 219 - Scandinavia by the runes, which appear towards the end of the second or at the beginning of the third century of our era.
Page xxxii - And the skill may exalt the interest, and the interest may improve the skill, until, in process of time, experience forms the consummate practitioner. But does the interest of attending the sick necessarily stop here? The question may seem strange. If it has led to the readiest discernment and the highest skill, and formed the consummate practitioner, why need it go further ? But what if humanity shall warm it? Then this interest, this excitement, this intellectual pleasure, is exalted into a principle,...
Page 13 - Davis removed with a pair of long dressing forceps fifty-nine pieces of bone, the accompanying discharge being very offensive. On the following day twentyseven additional pieces were removed, and one came away subsequently, making a total of eighty-seven. Each of the three manipulations took from two to three hours, during which she was kept under chloroform.
Page xxxi - Ay, indeed it is ; a greater, far greater interest than ever painter or sculptor took in the form and beauties of its health. "Whence comes this interest? At first, perhaps, it seldom comes naturally : a mere sense of duty must engender it ; and still, for a while, a mere sense of duty must keep it alive.
Page 95 - ... can be exposed in the human body, the tourniquet is now to be unscrewed, and the bleeding, if the wound did not bleed before, leads to the spot where the artery is injured. The knife may be applied perpendicularly to the fascia, and the artery laid...
Page xxxii - ... a skill in the use of remedies. And the skill may exalt the interest, and the interest may improve the skill, until, in process of time, experience forms the consummate practitioner. " But does the interest of attending the sick necessarily stop here ? The question may seem strange. If it has led to the readiest discernment and the highest skill, and...
Page xxxii - In entering this place, even this vast hospital, where there is many a significant, many a wonderful thing, you shall take me along with you, and I will be your guide. But it is by your own eyes, and your ears and your own minds, and (I may add) by your own hearts, that you must observe, and learn, and profit. I can only point to the objects, and say little else than
Page 211 - that in all the cases, or most of the cases in which abscess of the liver and dysentery are associated, the former disease is the consequence of the latter.
Page 33 - ... artificially almost implies sacrifice of the child with considerable risk to the mother. 4. There is no proof that tapping an ovarian cyst is more dangerous during pregnancy than at any other time ; and it will generally afford immediate relief to distension at a very slight risk to the mother, and lead to the natural termination of pregnancy in the birth of a living child if proper precautions be taken to prevent the escape of ovarian fluid in*° the peritoneal cavity, and the entrance of air...

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