Medical Record, Volume 20George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman W. Wood., 1881 |
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Page 224 - All true science begins with empiricism, though all true science is such exactly in so far as it strives to pass out of the empirical stage.
Page 287 - Bright's Disease and Diabetes. With Especial Reference to Pathology and Therapeutics.
Page 222 - ... chicken cholera : that is to say, it may modify more or less the facility of its development in the body of animals. May we not be here in presence of a general law applicable to all kinds of virus ? What benefits may not be the result ? We may hope to discover in this way the vaccine of all virulent diseases...
Page 8 - A TREATISE ON THE DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. By WILLIAM A. HAMMOND, MD, Surgeon-General US Army (retired list) ; Professor of Diseases of the Mind and Nervous System in the University of the City of New York.
Page 223 - But was there, after all, reason to be discouraged ? Certainly not; in fact, if you observe closely, you will find that there is no real difference between the mode of the generation of the anthracoid germ by scisson and that of chicken cholera.
Page 225 - ... the body of a living man differs from that of a dead man just as does a watch or other automaton (ie, a machine that moves of itself), when it is wound up and contains in itself the corporeal principle of those movements for which it is designed along with all that is requisite for its action, from the same watch or other machine when it is broken and when the principle of its movement ceases to act.
Page 389 - DS Lamb, of the Army Medical Museum, Washington, DC Before commencing the examination, a consultation was held by these physicians, in a room adjoining that in which the body lay, and it was unanimously agreed that the dissection should be made by Dr. Lamb, and that Surgeon Woodward should record the observations made. It was further unanimously agreed that the cranium should not be opened. Surgeon Woodward then proposed that the examination should be conducted as follows : That the body should be...
Page 223 - ... hours corpuscle germs distributed in series more or less regular along the filaments. All around these corpuscles, matter is absorbed ; as I have represented it formerly in one of the plates of my work on the diseases of silkworms. Little by little all connection between them disappears, and presently they are reduced to nothing more .than germ dust.