The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Volume 74Cupples, Upham & Company, 1866 - Medicine |
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Page 118 - Functions of the Human Body. By AUSTIN FLINT, Jr., MD, Professor of Physiology and Microscopy in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, and in the Long Island College Hospital,
Page 221 - worked, a double current of air is produced, one current descending and pressing upon the ether forcing it along the inner tube, and the other ascending through the outer tube and playing upon the column of ether as it escapes through the fine jet. By
Page 319 - some inches thick of clean dry earth. " 5. Earth near dwellings, if it has become offensive or foul by the soakagc of decaying animal or vegetable matter, should be treated on the same plan. " 6. Drains and ditches are best treated with chloride of lime, or Condy's fluid, or with
Page 242 - may be possibly averted by the local bleeding of an incision ; but if continued or used on a large scale, the dangers of frost-bite and mortification must be imminent.* It may be superfluous to add that both the liquid and the vapor of rhigolene are highly inflammable.
Page 379 - at 1.45, PM In the absence of the Chairman, Dr. Ellsworth Eliot, of New York, was elected Chairman, pro tern. The minutes of the last meeting having been read and approved, the Section adjourned, sine die. Section on Medical Jurisprudence, Physiology and
Page 319 - but of course, the quantity of disinfectant required will depend upon the amount of filth in the fluid to be disinfected. " 7. Linen and washing apparel requiring to be disinfected should without delay be set to soak in water containing per gallon about an ounce either of chloride of lime or
Page 224 - to investigate and supervise the whole public charitable and correctional institutions of the Commonwealth, and to recommend such changes and additional provisions as they may deem necessary for their economical and efficient administration,
Page 347 - the year of their admission, the offices they may have held in the Association, and in case of death or resignation, the date thereof." Dr. Mayburry also presented the following, which, on motion, was referred to the Committee on Ethics.
Page 263 - We commend it to all as a most reliable adviser on many occasions when many treatises on the same subjects will utterly fail to help us. It is supplied with a very copious general index, and a special index to the formulae scattered throughout the
Page 262 - Dr. West. For years we have held his opinion as judicial, and have regarded him as one of the highest living authorities in the difficult department of medical science in which he is most widely known. His writings are characterized by