Edinburgh Medical Journal, Volume 31, Part 2

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Y. J. Pentland., 1886

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Page 746 - LL.D., Provost and Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine and of Clinical Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania.
Page 996 - May all love, His love, unseen but felt, o'ershadow Thee, The love of all Thy sons encompass Thee, The love of all Thy daughters cherish Thee, The love of all Thy people comfort Thee, Till God's love set Thee at his side again ! THE COMING OF ARTHUR.
Page 847 - Those blazing suns that dart a downward ray, And fiercely shed intolerable day; Those matted woods where birds forget to sing; But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling; Those poisonous fields with rank luxuriance crowned, Where the dark scorpion gathers death around; Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake...
Page 950 - Formulary, by L. Duncan Bulkley, AM, MD Physician to the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital; Consulting Physician to the New York Hospital.
Page 1067 - What disputes have arisen have been determined by difference in views about classification and other points which are not yet quite settled, but which are hardly pertinent to the broad issues which I wish to raise to-night. For my own part, I have followed the practice of publishing my results year by year, beginning on the 1st of January and ending on the 31st of December. Simply, therefore, as a foundation to the argument which I am about to lay before you, I want to draw your attention to two...
Page 1063 - Pharmacopoeia, arranged in Classes according to their Action, with their Composition and Doses. By a Practising Physician. Fifth Edition.
Page 686 - I have no experience. Many sufferers from winter cough also complain of acidity and flatulence. I soon found that the internal administration of pure terebene was an excellent remedy for this combination of symptoms. It checks the formation of flatus so quickly, and is so efficacious in expelling any that may remain in the stomach or intestines, that I constantly employ it in cases of dyspepsia when flatulence is a prominent symptom.
Page 746 - Revised and Edited by Louis Starr, MD, Clinical Professor of Diseases of Children in the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; Physician to the Children's Hospital, Philadelphia.
Page 859 - A Complete Pronouncing Medical Dictionary. Embracing the Terminology of Medicine and the Kindred Sciences, with their Signification, Etymology, and Pronunciation. With an Appendix, comprising an Explanation of the Latin Terms and Phrases occurring in Medicine, Anatomy, Pharmacy, etc., together with the Necessary Directions for Writing Latin Prescriptions, etc., etc.
Page 983 - The use of cocaine in the alcoholic and opium inebriates is not satisfactory: while it is a more or less perfect substitute, yet its use is attended with greater danger than alcohol or opium. 3. The use of cocaine in mental depression, if we carefully guard against the depressing effects of the drug upon digestion and assimilation, will often give better results than any drug hitherto used. 4. The use of cocaine in neurasthenia is a valuable addition to the treatment. 5. The drug, if administered...

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