The Dublin Journal of Medical Science, Volume 55Fannin & Company, 1873 |
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Page 425 - ... to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.
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Page 228 - It appears that by applying a ligature of animal tissue antiseptically upon an artery, whether tightly or gently, we virtually surround it with a ring of living tissue, and strengthen the vessel where we obstruct it.
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Page 17 - Having detached the skin from the end of the urethra, to which it is generally intimately adherent, I divide the urethra below, to the length of more than half an inch. I raise the mucous membrane from each lip of the incision, then cut away a portion of the bared corpus spongiosum, to such an extent as will allow the raised mucous membrane to cover the cut edge. I stitch down this membrane upon the corpus spongiosum; and thus having covered each lip of the wound by mucous membrane, I have effectually...
Page 535 - Grieve believes that re-vaccination is a sure protection against small-pox, but to be efficacious it must be performed after the age of fifteen years. Cases of variola subsequent to re-vaccination are merely the exceptions that prove the rule ; they are more uncommon than second small-pox, and differ also in this way, that whereas the latter are frequently severe and sometimes fatal, the former are very mild indeed.
Page 321 - The gum-lancet is now much less frequently employed than formerly. It is used more by the ignorant practitioner, who is deficient in the ability to diagnosticate obscure diseases, than by one of intelligence, who can discern more clearly the true pathological state. Its use is more frequent in some countries, as England, under the teaching of great names, than in others, as France, where the highest authorities, as Killiet and Barthez, discountenance it.
Page 532 - During examination the remains of a copious, dusky, evidently syphilitic rash were found. On inquiry, she stated that she had been very ill after vaccination, and had had a severe rash and inflammation of one eye. Further examination showed the presence of a dusky scar at the seat of one of the vaccination-punctures, very different indeed from a normal vaccine cicatrix; synechiae were also found in the left eye, proving past iritis.