London Medical Gazette: Or, Journal of Practical Medicine, Volume 71831 |
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Page 48 - Whether what Temple says be true, that physicians have had more learning than the other faculties, I will not stay to inquire ; but, I believe, every man has found in physicians great liberality and dignity of sentiment, very prompt effusions of beneficence, and willingness to exert a lucrative art where there is no hope of lucre.
Page 523 - The first feelings were similar to those produced in the last experiment; but in less than half a minute, the respiration being continued, they diminished gradually, and were succeeded by a sensation analogous to gentle pressure on all the muscles, attended by a highly pleasurable thrilling, particularly in the chest and the extremities.
Page 366 - Having sown up the body, it is covered with nitre for the space of seventy days, which time they may not exceed ; at the end of this period it is washed, closely wrapped in bandages of cotton...
Page 488 - Who is nervous if I am not ?—and do not those other words of his, (Dr. Keid's) apply to my case, where he says, that drawing blood from a nervous patient, is like loosening the cords of a musical instrument, whose tones already fail for want of sufficient tension ! Even before this illness, you yourself know how weak and irritable I had become ; and bleeding, by increasing this state, will inevitably kill me. Do with me what else you like, but bleed me you shall not.
Page 523 - ... by a highly pleasurable thrilling, particularly in the chest and the extremities. The objects around me became dazzling and my hearing more acute. Towards the last inspirations, the thrilling increased, the sense of muscular power became greater, and at last an irresistible propensity to action was indulged in; I recollect but indistinctly what followed ; I know that my motions were various and violent.
Page 366 - In the most perfect specimens of their art, they draw the brain through the nostrils, partly with a piece of crooked iron, and partly by the infusion of drugs; they then, with an Ethiopian stone, make an incision in the side, through which they extract the intestines; these they cleanse thoroughly, washing them with palm-wine, and afterwards covering them with powdered aromatics. They then fill the body with powder of pure myrrh, cassia, and other perfumes, except frankincense. Having sewn up the...
Page 16 - Depensaries they attend. All students, in London, are required to appear personally, and to register the several classes for which they have taken tickets; and those only will be considered to have complied with the regulations of the Court whose names and classes in the register correspond with the testimonials of the teachers. The book will be open for the registration during the first twenty-one days of the months of February, June, and October, from nine o'clock until two.
Page 525 - The first time I inspired the nitrous oxide, I felt a highly pleasurable sensation of warmth over my whole frame, resembling that which I remember once to have experienced after returning from a walk in the snow into a warm room. The only motion which I felt inclined to make, was that of laughing at those who were looking at me.
Page 365 - And forty days were fulfilled for him ; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed : and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
Page 525 - Upon another occasion, he states that his sensations were superior to anything he ever before experienced ; his step was firm, and all his muscular power increased. His nerves were more alive to every surrounding impression; he threw himself into several theatrical attitudes, and traversed the laboratory with a quick step, while his mind was elevated to a most sublime height; he says that it is giving but a faint idea of his feelings to say that they resembled those produced by a representation of...