St.Andrews Medical Graduates' Association.Transactions,1871 |
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... of a law providing for the suspension of an existing law during a sitting if two - thirds of those present vote for such suspension . Your Council after careful deliberation cannot recommend the passing of such a regulation ,
... of a law providing for the suspension of an existing law during a sitting if two - thirds of those present vote for such suspension . Your Council after careful deliberation cannot recommend the passing of such a regulation ,
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Leoonard W. Sedgwick,M.D.,Edited By. deliberation cannot recommend the passing of such a regulation , which , even when merely facilitating the mechanical transaction of the business of the Session , would in their opinion be open to ...
Leoonard W. Sedgwick,M.D.,Edited By. deliberation cannot recommend the passing of such a regulation , which , even when merely facilitating the mechanical transaction of the business of the Session , would in their opinion be open to ...
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... passed , I think , into disuse without deserving the neglect . It is a good instrument ; too clumsy , I doubt not , in construction , and , in this respect , unpopular , but most valuable when correctly employed . Like the thermometer ...
... passed , I think , into disuse without deserving the neglect . It is a good instrument ; too clumsy , I doubt not , in construction , and , in this respect , unpopular , but most valuable when correctly employed . Like the thermometer ...
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... passing into the phase of positive science so quickly , it is hard to keep level with its posts of advancement . Three remarkable progressions seem to my mind to distinguish modern therapeutics . The first consists in the study of the ...
... passing into the phase of positive science so quickly , it is hard to keep level with its posts of advancement . Three remarkable progressions seem to my mind to distinguish modern therapeutics . The first consists in the study of the ...
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... passed from topic to topic , you re- cognised in every labour , the labourer , and so I spoke of them all in richer words than their names , —I mean , in their works , and " their works do follow them . " Happy am I in this knowledge ...
... passed from topic to topic , you re- cognised in every labour , the labourer , and so I spoke of them all in richer words than their names , —I mean , in their works , and " their works do follow them . " Happy am I in this knowledge ...
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Page 115 - Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat Of hahit's devil, is angel yet in this; That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock, or livery, That aptly is put on : Refrain to-night ; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence : the next more easy : For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And either curb the devil, or throw him out With wondrous potency.
Page 20 - Does arbitrate the event, my nature is That I incline to hope rather than fear, And gladly banish squint suspicion. My sister is not so defenceless left, As you imagine ; she has a hidden strength, Which you remember not.
Page 241 - This name has been given to an inflammation of the glottis, larynx, or upper part of the trachea, whether it affect the membranes of these parts, or the muscles adjoining. It may arise first in these parts, and continue to subsist in them alone; or it may come to affect these parts, from the cynanche tonsillaris or maligna spreading into them.
Page 173 - I can see no weighty objection to that operation , as the membrane can be so easily got at, and is very loose. Many a more hazardous operation is daily performed. I would propose however, that it should be first tried on a dead subject, that we may proceed with all manner of contained assistance. But something ought to be tried in their dangerous situation.
Page 105 - ... intemperate, and had other children subsequently born. In such cases, it is a matter of notoriety, that the younger children have become addicted to the practice of intoxication much more frequently than the elder — in the proportion of five to one.
Page 108 - Immorality, depravity, alcoholic excesses, and great moral degradation in great-grandfather, who was killed in a tavern brawl. Second Generation. — Hereditary drunkenness, maniacal attacks ending in general paralysis in the grandfather. Third Generation. — Sobriety, but hypochondriacal tendencies, delusions of persecution, and homicidal tendencies in the father. Fourth Generation. — Defective intelligence. First attack of mania at sixteen years of age ; stupidity and transition to complete...
Page 106 - T is this, that no man keep company with his wife for issue sake, but when he is sober — as not having before either drunk any wine, or, at least, not to such a quantity as to distemper him ; for they usually prove wine-bibbers and drunkards whose parents begot them when they were drunk : wherefore...
Page 241 - ... glottis, larynx, or upper part of the trachea whether it affect the membranes of these parts, or the muscles adjoining. It may arise first in these parts, and continue to subsist in them alone ; or it may come to affect these parts from the Cynanche tonsillaris or maligna spreading into them. 319.] In either way it has been a rare occurrence, and few instances of it have been marked and recorded by physicians.
Page 105 - By habits of intemperance, they not only degrade and ruin themselves, but transmit the elements of like degradation and ruin to their posterity. This is no visionary conjecture, the fruit of a favourite and long-cherished theory; it is a settled belief, resulting from observation — an inference derived from innumerable facts. In hundreds and thousands of instances, parents having had children born to thorn while their habits were temperate, have become afterwards intemperate, and had other children...
Page 36 - Did twist together with its whiskers, And twine so close, that Time should never, In life or death, their fortunes sever, But with his rusty sickle mow Both down together at a blow. So learned Taliacotius, from The brawny part of porter's bum, Cut supplemental noses, which Would last as long as parent breech ; But when the date of Nock was out, Off dropp'd the sympathetic snout.