Eclectic Medical Gleaner, Volume 6Lloyd Library., 1910 |
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Page 374 - Mendeleeff, which states that the properties of the elements are periodic functions of their atomic weights.
Page 393 - This should be painted all over the bruised surface with a camel's hair pencil and allowed^ to dry on. A second or third coating being applied as soon as the first is dry. If done as soon as the injury is inflicted this treatment will invariably prevent the blackening of the bruised tissue.
Page 204 - Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin.
Page 73 - We disinfect our rooms with burning sulphur ; and so men did before the time of Homer. We purge sometimes with rhubarb, especially when some subsequent astringent influence is desirable, and so did the old Arabians for the same special reason. The value of castor oil in its chief use was familiar, probably for ages, to the natives of the East and of the West Indies before it was made known in Europe by a physician from Antigua one hundred and fifty years ago. Aloes was employed in the same way long...
Page 415 - Have respect unto the covenant : for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
Page 97 - A grateful profession reveres his memory and treasures his example." On the opposite side is inscribed, "Erected by the Kentucky State Medical Society, 1879." On the eastern face this inscription: " Beneath this shaft rests EPHRAIM McDowELL, MD, the ' Father of Ovariotomy,' who, by originating a great surgical operation, became a benefactor of his race, known and honored throughout the civilized world.
Page 103 - In five days I visited her, and much to my astonishment found her engaged in making up her bed. I gave her particular caution for the future, and in twenty-five days she returned home as she came, in good health, which she continues to enjoy.
Page 231 - Fill a soup plate with soapsuds ; in the center place a glass of water with a scum of kerosene on top; place the soup plate on the floor in an infested room, and set fire to the kerosene at night. Fleas in the room will be attracted and will jump into the soapsuds.
Page 103 - As soon as the external opening was made, the intestines rushed out upon the table, and so completely was the abdomen filled by the tumor that they could not be replaced during the operation, which was terminated in about twenty-five minutes.
Page 265 - ... STATISTICS. — Without quoting full data, some idea of the extent of the disease can be gained from the figures given by Triller, who states that in 1889 there were 73,000 pellagrins in Italy, or from thirty to fifty per cent of the entire population; in 1906 there were 30,000 pellagrins in Roumania. There were said to be in 1907 about 100,000 pellagrins in Italy; upwards of 50,000 in Roumania, with not less than 10,000 in Yucatan, and probably over 1,000,000 in the entire world.