The Asclepiad: A Book of Original Research and Observation in the Science, Art, and Literature of Medicine, Preventive and Curative, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1885 - Medicine |
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Page 96 - England for efficiency in the treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis, Chronic Bronchitis, and other affections of the respiratory organs, and is employed also in various nervous and debilitating diseases with success. ITS CURATIVE PROPERTIES are largely attributable to Stimulant, Tonic and Nutritive qualities, whereby the various organic functions are recruited.
Page 96 - ... into the circulation with the food products. The prescribed dose produces a feeling of buoyancy and removes depression and melancholy; hence the preparation is of great value in the treatment of mental and nervous affections.
Page 96 - Prompt | it stimulates the appetite and the digestion, it promotes assimilation, and it enters directly into the circulation with the food products. The prescribed dose produces a feeling of buoyancy...
Page 96 - Wide Reputation, particularly in the treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis, Chronic Bronchitis, and other affections of the respiratory organs.
Page 96 - Constituent— Phosphorus; the whole combined in the form of a Syrup with a Slightly Alkaline Reaction. It Differs in its...
Page 96 - ITS ACTION IS PROMPT, stimulating the appetite and the digestion, it promotes assimilation, and enters directly into the circulation with the food products. THE PRESCRIBED...
Page 96 - CONSTITUENT— Phosphorus, Combined in the form of a Syrup, with slight alkaline reaction. IT DIFFERS IN EFFECT FROM ALL OTHERS, being pleasant to taste, acceptable to the stomach, and harmless under prolonged use. IT HAS...
Page 53 - There are mites in science as well as in charity, and the ultimate results of each are often alike important and beneficial." It is my fortune, good or bad, to have to preside over the council of this new society. Of the ability of those who form the council, and of their experience, I need not speak in detail, for their names are familiar to the world.
Page 192 - Physician to the Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest at Brompton, Assistant Physician to the Middlesex Hospital. ON CONSUMPTION AND ON CERTAIN DISEASES OF THE LUNGS AND PLEURA. Being a Second Edition revised and extended of " The Varieties of Pulmonary Consumption.
Page 38 - The misconception of later writers * Forster's Northern Voyages, p. 189, note. is due to a complex piece of roguery running through the several editions of Ramusio. The story of Nicolo and Antonio Zeno gains a footing, for the first time, in the second volume of the Venice edition of 1574, of which there is a copy in the Library of the British Museum. The passage of the original representing Estotiland to abound in Gold is found there (fol.