The Medical and Physical Journal, Volume 39R. Phillips, 1818 |
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Page 88 - The white medullary Substance of the Brain, spinal Marrow, and the Nerves proceeding from them, is the immediate Instrument of Sensation and Motion.
Page 116 - Series of new and improved Operations, by the practice of which most of -these Causes of Failure may be avoided.
Page 475 - Course of Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery, and on the Diseases of Women and Children, Oct.
Page 201 - In the hospitals appropriated to the reception of such cases, the Pellagrosi afford a melancholy spectacle of physical and moral suffering, such as I have rarely had occasion to witness elsewhere. These unhappy objects seem under the influence of an invincible despondency ; they seek to be alone ; scarcely answer the questions put to them ; and often shed tears without any obvious cause. Their faculties and senses become alike impaired ; and the progress of the disease, where it does not carry them...
Page 477 - Results of an Investigation respecting epidemic and pestilential Diseases ; including Researches in the Levant concerning the Plague.
Page 1 - ... former pushed -the tool forward along the wood, the other drew it to him, not only under an idea that this occasioned a greater degree of force, but that the work was executed with more facility and rapidity ! What appeared, however, more extraordinary was, that a small plane, measuring only one foot and a quarter in length, and three inches and a half in breadth, was used in a similarly awkward manner. Hence the most ignorant country carpenter in England will be found to perform, within the...
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Page 199 - The colour of this eruption is a somewhat more obscure and dusky red than that of erysipelas: it is attended with no other uneasy sensation than a slight pricking or itching, and some tension in the part. After a short continuance in this state, small tubercles are frequently observed to arise on the inflamed surface ; the skin almost always becomes dry and scaly, forming rough patches, which are excoriated and divided by furrows and rhagades.
Page 220 - ... than either of those from which it arises. It may perhaps be thought some confirmation of this opinion, that during the whole of my residence in India, where mercury is so commonly, so largely, and sometimes so injudiciously given for affections of the liver, I never knew a single instance of this new disease having arisen where syphilis was certainly out of the question.