Edinburgh Medical Journal, Volume 12, Part 2Y. J. Pentland., 1867 |
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action admitted appearance applied asylums attention bean become believe blood body bone called cause child cholera complete condition considerable considered contained continued contraction cure death described died difficulty discharge disease doses doubt Edinburgh effect examination excision existence experience extreme fact four frequently give given hæmorrhage hand head hospital important inches increase insanity interesting kind labour less limb London March married matter means medicine method minutes months nature nearly never observed occurred once operation opinion organ pain passed patient period placenta portion practice present produced profession Professor prove question reference regard remarkable removed result seems seen side skin success suffered surface surgeon symptoms taken tion tissue treatment tumour usual uterine uterus vessels whole wound
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Page 782 - ... once or twice in our rough island-story, The path of duty was the way to glory ; He that walks it, only thirsting For the right, and learns to deaden Love of self, before his journey closes, He shall find the stubborn thistle bursting Into glossy purples, which outredden All voluptuous garden-roses. Not once or twice in our fair island-story, The path of duty was the way to glory...
Page 785 - And thro' the moss the ivies creep, And in the stream the long-leaved flowers weep, And from the craggy ledge the poppy hangs in sleep. Why are we weigh'd upon with heaviness, And utterly consumed with sharp distress, While all things else have rest from weariness ? All things have rest : why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things, And make perpetual moan, Still from one sorrow to another thrown : Nor ever fold our wings, And cease from wanderings, Nor steep our brows in...
Page 775 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 782 - Not once or twice in our fair island-story, The path of duty was the way to glory : He, that ever following her commands, On with toil of heart and knees and hands, Thro...
Page 780 - Every man has two educations — that which is given to him and the other, that which he gives to himself. Of the two kinds, the latter is by far the most valuable.
Page 711 - During hemorrhage, to pass the bistoury along the vagina into the cavity of the uterus, and make a very free incision into the most exposed portion of the tumour.
Page 640 - An examination shows that very considerable changes have been made in the sixth edition. The work may undoubtedly be regarded as fairly representing the present state of the science of medicine, and as reflecting the views of those who exemplify in their practice the present stage of progress of medical art.— Cincinnati Medical New, Oct.
Page 783 - SUSPIRIA. TAKE them, O Death ! and bear away Whatever thou canst call thine own ! Thine image, stamped upon this clay, Doth give thee that, but that alone ! Take them, O Grave ! and let them lie Folded upon thy narrow shelves, As garments by the soul laid by, And precious only to ourselves ! Take them, O great Eternity ! Our little life is but a gust, That bends the branches of thy tree, And trails its blossoms in the dust ' HYMN FOR MY BROTHER'S ORDINATION.
Page 780 - Costly apparatus and splendid cabinets have no magical power to make scholars. In all circumstances, as a man is under God, the master of his own fortune, so is he the maker of his own mind. The creator has so constituted the human intellect that it can only grow by its own action, and by its own action and free will it will certainly and necessarily grow. Every man must therefore educate. himself. His books and teacher are but helps; the work is his.
Page 613 - Dr. PH Watson's Plaster-Splint after Excision of the Knee-Joint. — This splint is the best which has been hitherto invented for the after-treatment of excision of the knee-joint. It consists essentially of two parts: first, a suspension rod made of iron ; second, a modelled Gooch splint, long enough to extend from the tuberosity of the ischium to beyond the heel. In application, the limb is first laid and carefully adjusted upon the posterior splint, which should preliminarily be padded with lint,...