The New Hampshire Journal of Medicine, Volumes 7-8G. Parker Lyon, 1857 |
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Page 117 - Let me have men about me that are fat ; Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights. Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look ; He thinks too much : such men are dangerous.
Page 59 - Let the men who mould opinions look to it; if there is any voluntary blindness, any interested oversight, any culpable negligence, even, in such a matter, and the facts shall reach the public ear; the pestilence-carrier of the lying-in chamber must look to God for pardon, for man will never forgive him.
Page 59 - ... them wherever they went. Some have deemed it prudent to retire for a time from practice. In fine, that this fever may occur spontaneously, I admit ; that its infectious nature may be plausibly disputed, I do not deny ; but I add, considerately, that in my own family I had rather that those I esteemed the most should be delivered, unaided, in a stable, by the manger-side, than that they should receive the best help, in the fairest apartment, but exposed to the vapors of this pitiless disease....
Page 293 - Hall made his researches into the effects of he loss of blood, the result of which was embodied in a paper read before the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society in 1824.
Page 339 - red-injected face" of the butcher, has produced a wrong idea as to the healthy nature of his occupation. This idea is now corrected by scientific induction, and proper sanitary means will overcome the evil thus brought to light. To quote the significant remarks in the report conveying this fact, here is an important problem for solution : "On what does the great mortality of the butcher depend ? On his diet, into which too much animal food, and too little fruit and vegetables enter? on his drinking...
Page 102 - ... an injection was administered, which operated on the lower intestines — but all without any perceptible advantage, the respiration becoming still more difficult and distressing. Upon the arrival of the first of the consulting physicians, it was agreed, as there were yet no signs of accumulation in the bronchial vessels of the lungs, to try the result of another bleeding, when about thirty-two ounces of blood were drawn, without the smallest apparent alleviation of the disease.
Page 94 - Leeches swarmed in incredible profusion in the streams and damp grass, and among the bushes: they got into my hair, hung on my eyelids, and crawled up my legs and down my back. I repeatedly took upwards of a hundred from my legs, where the small ones used to collect in clusters on the instep ; the sores which they produced were not healed for five months afterwards, and I retain the scars to the present day.
Page 102 - ... another bleeding, when about thirty-two ozs. of blood were drawn, without the smallest apparent alleviation of the disease. Vapors of vinegar and water were frequently inhaled, ten grains of calomel were given, succeeded by repeated doses of emetic tartar, amounting in all to five or six grains, with no other effect than a copious discharge from the bowels. The powers of life seemed now manifestly yielding to the force of the disorder.
Page 247 - A MANUAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE: containing the History, Nosology, Description, Statistics, Diagnosis, Pathology, and Treatment of Insanity.
Page 102 - Blisters were applied to the extremities, together with a cataplasm ot bran and vinegar to the throat. Speaking, which was painful from the beginning, now became almost impracticable ; respiration grew more and more contracted and imperfect, till half after 11 o'clock on Saturday night, when, retaining the full possession of his intellect, he expired without a struggle.