A Text-book of the theory and practice of medicine v. 1, 1893, Volume 1

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W.B. Saunders, 1893
 

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Page 802 - Essentials of Anatomy, including the Anatomy of the Viscera. By CHAS. B. NANCREDE, MD, Professor of Surgery and of Clinical Surgery , University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Crown octavo, 388 pages ; 1 80 cuts. With an Appendix containing over 60 illustrations of the osteology of the body. Based on Gray' s Anatomy. Cloth, $1.00 net. In Saunders' Question Compends. " The questions have been wisely selected, and the answers accurately and concisely given.
Page 37 - In abating it property may be destroyed and the owner deprived of it without trial, without notice and without compensation. Such destruction for the public safety or health is not a taking of private property for public use without compensation or due process of law, in the sense of the Constitution. It is simply the prevention of its noxious and unlawful use, and depends upon the principles that every man must so use his property as not to injure his neighbor, and that the safety of the public...
Page 248 - Vaccinae, A Disease Discovered in Some of the Western Counties of England. Particularly Gloucestershire, and Known by the Name of the Cow Pox...
Page 802 - AN AMERICAN TEXT-BOOK OF SURGERY. Edited by WILLIAM W. KEEN, MD, LL.D., and J. WILLIAM WHITE, MD, PH. D. Forming one handsome royal-octavo volume of...
Page 802 - York Post-Graduate School and Hospital. NICHOLAS SENN, MD, PH.D., Professor of Practice of Surgery and of Clinical Surgery, Rush Medical College. FRANCIS J. SHEPHERD, MD, CM, Professor of Anatomy and Lecturer on Operative Surgery, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. LEWIS A. STIMSON, BA, MD, Professor of Surgery in the University of the City of New York. • WILLIAM THOMSON, MD, Professor cf Ophthalmology, Jefferson Medical College.
Page 635 - ... from recurrent laryngeal spasm of the glottis was apparently averted only by the free inhalation of the nitrite of amyl. The sole other symptom was headache, but the specific history was clear, and the effect of antisyphilitic remedies rapid and pronounced. Psychical Symptoms. — As already stated, apathy, somnolence, loss of memory, and general mental failure are the most frequent and characteristic mental symptoms of meningeal syphilis, but...
Page 733 - Paralysis involves the peronei, the long extensor of the toes, tibialis anticus, and the extensor brevis digitorum. The ankle cannot be flexed, resulting in a condition known as foot-drop, and, as the toes cannot be raised, the whole leg must be lifted, producing the characteristic steppage gait seen in so many forms of peripheral neuritis. In long-standing cases the foot is permanently extended, and there is wasting of the anterior tibial and peroneal muscles. The loss of sensation is in the outer...
Page 635 - Heubner makes the following types: — "1. Psychical disturbances, with epilepsy, incomplete paralysis (seldom of the cranial nerves), and a final comatose condition usually of short duration. "2. Genuine apoplectic attacks with succeeding hemiplegia, in connection with peculiar somnolent conditions, occurring in often-repeated episodes; frequently phenomena of unilateral irritation, and generally at the same time paralyses of the cerebral nerves. "3. Course of the cerebral disease similar...
Page 497 - ... being syncope ; but even in these cases the course of the disease is more prolonged than in fatal instances of cerebral inflammation. The only forms of mental disease for which acute mania may be mistaken are Acute Melancholia, and the excitement which occurs in some instances of General Paralysis. Between Acute Mania and Acute Melancholia no distinct line of demarcation can be drawn. The domains of the two diseases overlap so much, that in practice, cases not infrequently present themselves...

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