Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, Volume 79

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A. and C. Black, 1853

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Página 156 - ON THE CONTAMINATION OF WATER BY THE POISON OF LEAD, and its Effects on the Human Body. Foolscap 8vo. cloth, 3s.
Página iii - DR. HEADLAND. ON THE ACTION OF MEDICINES IN THE SYSTEM. Being the Prize Essay to which the Medical Society of London awarded the Fothergillian Gold Medal for 1852. Second Edition. 8vo.
Página iv - SYPHILITIC DISEASES: THEIR PATHOLOGY, DIAGNOSIS, AND TREATMENT: including Experimental Researches on Inoculation, as a Differential Agent in Testing the Character of these Affections. 8vo. cloth, 9s. SIR JAMES EYRE, MD THE STOMACH AND ITS DIFFICULTIES. Fourth Edition. Fcap. 8vo. cloth, 2s. 6d. PRACTICAL REMARKS ON SOME EXHAUSTING DISEASES.
Página 486 - When the saturated solution of gutta percha in chloroform is spread by means of a camel's hair pencil over a portion of the skin, the solvent fluid rapidly evaporates, leaving a delicate and extremely thin pellicle of gutta percha firmly adhering to the part. The peculiar toughness of gutta percha prevents this pellicle from being brittle, and therefore it is much less liable than collodion to crack and fall off in small scales. On the forehead or face, where it is not affected by friction of the...
Página iii - A TREATISE ON TUBERCULOSIS, The Constitutional Origin of Consumption and Scrofula. By Henry Ancell, late Surgeon to the Western General l)isppnsnry, and Lecturer on Materia Medica and Jurisprudence in the School of Anatomy and Medicine adjoining St.
Página 447 - It gives rise to great changes in the blood, and several various constitutional disorders consequent upon the*e changes, among which the most frequent and important are anasarca and dropsy of one or more serous cavities, inflammation of the serous membranes, hypertrophy of the heart, with or without disease of the valves, and lastly, organic changes or great functional disturbance in the nervous centres. In one word, it may be said, either that this disease is a part and effect of chronic gout;—or...
Página 252 - LECTURES ON MATERIA MEDICA, AND ITS RELATIONS TO THE ANIMAL ECONOMY. Delivered before the Royal College of Physicians. 8vo. cloth, 5s.
Página 98 - The labyrinth may be too intricate, and the thread too fine, to be traced through all its windings; but, if we stop where we can trace it no farther, and secure the ground we have gained, there is no harm done; a quicker eye may in time trace it farther.
Página 133 - ... aware of his condition. The disease gradually creeps on until the sufferer becomes a miserable and loathsome object, spending the best period of his life in the wards of a public hospital. * * * * Many patients have died of the disease ; many, unable to open their jaws, have lingered with carious and necrosed bones ; others have suffered dreadful mutilations from surgical operations, considering themselves happy to escape with the loss of the greater portion of the lower jaw.
Página 486 - ... On the forehead or face, where it is not affected by friction of the clothes, it remains firmly attached for five or six days, or even longer ; but on other portions of the surface it is often rubbed off much sooner. Over dry eruptions of the skin it lasts longer than over those which are moist, and over smooth and firm spots, of course, longer than over those covered with rough morbid scales or loosely adhering crusts. Before the application of this solution therefore, the practitioner will...

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