British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review: Or, Quarterly Journal of Practial Medicine and Surgery, Volume 50

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1872 - Medicine

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Page 3 - Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception: in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Page 200 - Allbutt (TC)— ON THE USE OF THE OPHTHALMOSCOPE in Diseases of the Nervous System and of the Kidneys ; also in certain other General Disorders. By THOMAS CLIFFORD ALLBUTT, MA, MD Cantab., Physician to the Leeds General Infirmary, Lecturer on Practical Medicine, &c.
Page 92 - A Practical Treatise on the Diagnosis, Pathology and Treatment of Diseases Of the Heart. Second revised and enlarged edition. In one octavo volume of 550 pages, with a plate. Cloth, $4.
Page 5 - The particular pangs are now forgotten ; but the blank whirlwind of emotion, the horror of great darkness, and the sense of desertion by God and man, bordering close upon despair, which swept through my mind and overwhelmed my heart, I can never forget, however gladly I would do so.
Page 342 - For treason is but trusted like the fox ; Who, ne'er so tame, so cherished and locked up, Will have a wild trick of his ancestors.
Page 57 - It cannot be too distinctly understood that the person who contracts cholera in this country is ipso facto demonstrated with almost absolute certainty to have been exposed to excremental pollution; that what gave him cholera was (mediately or immediately...
Page 4 - And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shall not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake...
Page 437 - THE THANATOPHIDIA OF INDIA; being a Description of the Venomous Snakes of the Indian Peninsula. With an Account of the Influence of their Poison on Life, and a Series of Experiments.
Page 41 - The whole history of twin births is exceptional, indicates imperfect development and feeble organisation in the product, and leads us to regard twinning in the human species as a departure from the physiological rule, and, therefore, injurious to all concerned.
Page 426 - In hope, a king doth go to war! In hope, a lover lives full long ! In hope, a merchant sails full far ! In hope, just men do suffer wrong ! In hope, the ploughman sows his seed ! Thus Hope helps thousands at their need ! Then faint not, heart ! among the rest, Whatever chance, hope thou the best...

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