Atlanta Medical and Surgical Journal, Volume 7

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1866 - Medicine
 

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Page 348 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Page 199 - She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there!
Page 562 - A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE PHYSICAL EXPLORATION OF THE CHEST, AND THE DIAGNOSIS OF DISEASES AFFECTING THE RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
Page 211 - The man who consecrates his hours By vigorous effort, and an honest aim, At once he draws the sting of life and death : He walks with nature ; and her paths are peace.
Page 181 - The patient was entirely unconscious of pain, and after narcotizing the whole of the deep surface, Mr. Adams inserted his fingers, and cleared out the wound without creating the slightest evidence of pain. Afterwards, in the case of a lacerated wound, six inches long, in the arm of a boy, who had been injured with machinery, I narcotized while six sutures were introduced by Mr. Adams. The first needle was carried through without the anresthetic, and caused expression of acute pain ; the remaining...
Page 4 - Vaccinae, A Disease Discovered in Some of the Western Counties of England. Particularly Gloucestershire, and Known by the Name of the Cow Pox...
Page 283 - An examination shows that very considerable changes have been made in the sixth edition. The work may undoubtedly be regarded as fairly representing the present state of the science of medicine, and as reflecting the views of those who exemplify in their practice the present stage of progress of medical art.— Cincinnati Medical New, Oct.
Page 123 - ... which are called seeds or ova, cryptogamic or animalcular, according as the fancy of the theorist inclines him to adopt a vegetable or an animal nomenclature. But in this, as in many other cases, it is easier to trace an analogy, or to assume a cause, than it is to prevent an effect. Although inquirers have been indefatigable in their attempts to enlighten the world on the means of ridding ourselves of the presence of the various offensive cotenants of our globe, yet no crusade has yet succeeded...
Page 67 - The first operation took place on the twenty-second of last July, and was the removal of the entire breast, and glands of the axilla, for cancer. The patient, a lady in feeble health, was suffering from disease of the throat and lungs and general debility. In thirtyfive seconds from the time she began inhaling the gas, she was in a profound anaesthetic sleep. She remained insensible for sixteen consecutive minutes, until the operation was completed, and in forty seconds, from the time the bag was...
Page 80 - Ozone diffused through the air in minute quantities produces, on inhalation, distinct symptoms of acute catarrh. 5. When animals are subjected to ozone in large quantities, the symptoms produced, at a temperature of 75", are those of inflammation of the throat and mucous membranes generally, and at last congestive bronchitis, which, in carnivorous animals, is often rapidly fatal. 6. When animals are subjected for a long period to ozone in small proportions, the agent acts differently, according to...

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