Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, Volume 58

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Longmans, Green and Company, 1875
 

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Page 158 - ... fibrin, or blood and the like, say from congestion of the kidneys or from irritation of the urinary tract, would furnish a colloid medium, with which uric acid, the urates or oxalates themselves, perhaps in excess, could combine in the manner before described.
Page lxvii - Society deems it proper to state that the Society does not hold itself in any way responsible for the statements, reasonings, or opinions set forth in the various papers which, on grounds of general merit, are thought worthy of being published in its Transactions.
Page lxii - Assistant Physician to the Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, Brompton ; Lecturer on Materia Medica at the Charing Cross School of Medicine and Assistant Physician to the Hospital Sm.
Page 89 - ... is maintained ; secondly, the influence of collapse, proceeding from the well-marked weakening of the constitutional powers in phthisis. These two agencies are continually struggling for the mastery, and the result of this conflict is the temperature course of the disease. The influence of the first is seen in the rise in the afternoon and evening, well marked in the active forms of all three stages, and regularly recurring day after day for long periods ; the influence of the second...
Page 89 - ... shown in the rapid nocturnal fall and low temperatures of early morning ; the collapse influence is also seen in the subnormal day temperatures, occasionally occurring in all stages of the disease, and even where the active processes of lung tuberculization, of softening and of excavation may be taking place.
Page xxxiv - FRS, Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine in King's College, London, and Physician to the Hospital, TBEASURER.
Page 219 - ... elastic to the touch. It could be emptied, or pressed back into the orbit, but the pulsation then became violent ; and from the increased pressure of the globe upon the roof and side of the orbit, the pain was insupportable. Careful compression of the temporal, angular, and maxillary arteries, produced no effect on the aneurism.
Page liii - BM LOND. Surgeon to the Great Northern Hospital ; Surgeon to the Royal South London Ophthalmic Hospital. I.
Page 210 - The plugging of the trunk of the ophthalmic vein, where it joins the cavernous sinus, by obstructing the return of blood from the orbit, accounts for the protrusion of the eyeball, and perhaps also for the pulsation which was felt when the finger was laid on it, because each diastole of the ophthalmic artery...
Page 32 - According to this hypothesis then, if the centre of volitional action of one side is destroyed, or one channel of motor power is cut across, the other will transmit an impulse to the common centre, and this will be communicated to the nerves of the two sides, equally, if the fusion of the two nuclei is complete, and there will be no paralysis, — more or less imperfectly to the nerve of the affected side, if the transverse communication between it and its fellow is not so perfect, in which case...

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