Medical Era, Volume 3Era Publishing Company, 1886 - Medicine |
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Page 156 - And further, by these, my son, be admonished : of making many books there is no end ; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Page 56 - The art of preserving health; that is, of obtaining the most perfect action of body and mind during as long a period as is consistent with the laws of life. In other words, it aims at rendering growth more perfect, decay less rapid, life more vigorous, death more remote.
Page 197 - Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years; have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette ; but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age.
Page 248 - I now invariably adopt is very simple, and, at the same time, a perfectly efficient one. The patient is placed across the bed, with the buttocks resting near the edge, and under her is arranged a large piece of rubber or oil-cloth in such a way as to drain into a tub below on the floor.
Page 322 - They braced my aunt against a board, To make her straight and tall; They laced her up, they starved her down, To make her light and small; They pinched her feet, they singed her hair, They screwed it up with pins;— O never mortal suffered more In penance for her sins.
Page 351 - Consequently such food should be given with beef tea, and the compound forms a valuable food. When lactated food is placed in water hot enough to be sipped a rapid transformation of the starch remaining in it (by the diastase it contains) goes on; and a nutritive fluid is the result which requires but a minimum of the digestive act. Such fluid can be flavored and drank as a nutritive beverage, specially acceptable in febrile conditions. Flavored with lemon, ginger, cloves, or other flavoring agents...
Page 341 - ... women in their eighth or tenth confinement, except for necessity. 2. Do not give it where labor is complicated with severe vomiting, or with acute heart or lung trouble unless there be an imperative demand for it.
Page 246 - That it shall be a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of five hundred dollars and dismissal from office, for any officer of the United States government, civil, military, or naval, to make discrimination! in favor of or against any school of medical practice, or its legal...
Page 314 - Thus the parts are separated, with the little cushion of lint lying between. The sulcus is then to be filled with pledgets of lint, and finally long narrow strips of adhesive plaster are to be applied, always from above the inflamed sulcus downward, in such a manner that the latter is still farther removed from the margin of the nail. With such a dressing applied with sufficient care, there is no pain whatever ; and the patient can in a short time put on his ordinary stocking, and walk without trouble....
Page 319 - A baby fed from a breast which secretes milk poor in quahty and insufficient for the child's support, will, of course, grow slowly thinner ; but an infant supplied largely with farinaceous compounds, from which his feeble digestive organs fail to derive even a minimum of nourishment, will waste with startling rapidity.