British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review: Or, Quarterly Journal of Practial Medicine and Surgery, Volume 40

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1867 - Medicine

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Page 64 - ... 6. Any factory, workshop, or workplace (not already under the operation of any general Act for the regulation of factories or bakehouses), not kept in a cleanly state, or not ventilated in such a manner as to render harmless as far as practicable any gases vapours dust or other impurities generated in the course of the work...
Page 64 - Any house or part of a house so overcrowded as to be dangerous or injurious to the health of the inmates, whether or not members of the same family: 6.
Page 136 - Person is insane, it shall be lawful for One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, upon Receipt of such Certificate, to direct, by Warrant under his Hand, that such Person shall be removed to such County Lunatic Asylum or other proper Receptacle for Insane Persons as the said Secretary of State may judge proper and appoint...
Page iii - The Restoration of Health; or, the Application of the Laws of Hygiene to the Recovery of Health : a Manual for the Invalid, and a Guide in the Sick Room. By W.
Page 432 - ... law. The results, as he states them, are as follows : — 1. That there is a form of insanity known as monomania, which is characterized by a perversion of the understanding in regard to a single object, or a limited series of objects. 2. That one of the most prominent features of this species of insanity is a morbid feeling of hatred to friends and relatives, and a disposition to do them injury. 3. That it is especially a symptom of monomania to imbibe delusions which exercise a governing influence...
Page 136 - Peace, or under any other than civil process, shall appear to be insane, it shall be lawful for any two Justices of the Peace of the county...
Page 412 - ... repeated, if need be, in obstruction by bands, and especially by gall-stones. In all cases, opium and support to be freely administered from the earliest stage of the malady. The bulkier liquid constituent of the food to be given as sparingly as possible by the mouth, but administered freely per anum. Distensive enemata to precede all operations, if only as a means of aiding or assuring diagnosis. Where vomiting is excessive, nourishment to be also injected into the rectum in small and frequent...
Page 284 - Fox. — On the Diagnosis and Treatment of the Varieties of Dyspepsia, considered in Relation to the Pathological Origin of the different Forms of Indigestion. By WILSON Fox, MD Lond. FRCP Holme Professor of Clinical Medicine at University College, London, and Physician to University College Hospital.
Page 64 - ... Any fireplace or furnace which does not as far as practicable consume the smoke arising from the combustible used therein, and which is used for working engines by steam, or in any mill, factory, dyehouse, brewery, bakehouse, or gaswork, or in any manufacturing or trade process whatsoever; and Any chimney (not being the chimney of a private dwelling-house) sending forth black smoke in such quantity as to be a nuisance...
Page 428 - BLAINE. OUTLINES OF THE VETERINARY ART; OR, A TREATISE ON THE ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, AND DISEASES OF THE HORSE, NEAT CATTLE, AND SHEEP. Seventh Edition. By Charles Steel, MRCVSL With Plates. 8vo.

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