Medical Record, Volume 26

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George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman
W. Wood., 1884
 

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Page 348 - I believe, every man has found in physicians great liberality and dignity of sentiment, very prompt effusion of beneficence and willingness to exert a lucrative art where there is no hope of lucre.
Page 300 - Sexual Neurasthenia (Nervous Exhaustion). Its Hygiene, Causes, Symptoms and Treatment. With a Chapter on Diet for the Nervous.
Page 227 - each single part of the body, in respect of its nutrition, stands to the whole body in the relation of an excreted substance*.
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Page 172 - ... no science could have been chosen more happily calculated than medicine to prepare such a mind as that of Locke for the prosecution of those speculations which have immortalized his name ; the complicated and fugitive, and often equivocal phenomena of disease, requiring in the observer a far greater portion of discriminating sagacity than those of physics, strictly so called; resembling in this respect, much more nearly, the phenomena about which metaphysics, ethics and politics, are conversant.
Page 235 - Meckel's diverticulum, and oppose their origin from peritonitis. " 3. Recorded cases of intestinal strangulation from Meckel's diverticulum, in most instances, at least, belong in the above series. " 4. In the region where these congenital causes are most frequently met with, an occasional* cause of intestinal strangulation, viz., the vermiform appendage, is also found. " 5. It would seem, therefore, that, in the operation of abdominal section for the relief of acute intestinal obstruction not due...
Page 299 - The subject is skeletonized, condensed, and made thoroughly up to the wants of the general medical practitioner, and the requirements of prosecuting and defending attorneys. If any section deserves more distinction than any other, as to intrinsic excellence, it is that on toxicology. This part of the book comprises the best outline of the subject in a given space that can be found anywhere. As a whole, the work is everything it promises, and more, and considering its size, condensation, and practical...

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