The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences: Being a Digest of British and Continental Medicine, and of the Progress of Medicine and the Collateral SciencesWilliam Harcourt Ranking, Charles Bland Radcliffe, William Domett Stone H. C. Lea, 1849 |
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Page iii - THE HALF-YEARLY ABSTRACT OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES. Being a Digest of the Contents of the principal British and Continental Medical Works; together with a Critical Report of the Progress of' Medicine and the Collateral Sciences.
Page 298 - This view of the subject, though apparently simple, and almost too unquestionable to require, or even to justify, a formal statement, is of considerable importance, when we come to examine cases of what are called, incorrectly, " partial insanity " which would be better described by the phrase "insanity" or " unsoundness " always existing, though only occasionally manifest.
Page 300 - ... the belief of things as realities which exist only in the imagination of the patient. The frame or state of mind which indicates his incapacity to struggle against such an erroneous belief, constitutes an unsound mind.
Page 298 - The question being," he said, " whether the will was duly made by a person of sound mind or not, our inquiry, of course, is, whether or not the party possessed his faculties, and possessed them in a healthful state. His mental powers may be still subsisting, no disease may have taken them away, and yet they may have been affected with disease, and thus may not have entitled their possessor to the appellation of a person whose mind was sound. " Again, the disease affecting them may have been more...
Page 83 - In chapped nipples, it was even more efficient in its protective and curative action, and seemed, in the two instances in which I used it, to work a charm upon the painful skin. The gaping cracks were instantly drawn together, and almost obliterated by the contracting power of the remedy, and were effectually shielded from the influence of moisture, and the pressure of the gums of the infant, and all this in consequence of the rapid evaporation of the ether, in ,an instant of time.
Page 221 - ... oil of the liver of the common cod. Neither does it distinguish good cod-liver oil from bad, for it produces its characteristic reaction both with common brown cod-oil, and with the finest and palest qualities. But it serves to distinguish oil procured from the liver, from oil obtained from other parts...
Page 300 - The burthen of proof," says his Lordship, "often shifts about in the progress of the cause, accordingly as the successive steps of the inquiry, by leading to inferences decisive until rebutted, cast on the one or the other party the necessity of protecting himself from the consequences of such inferences. Nor can anything be less profitable as a guide to our ultimate judgment, than the assertion, which all parties are so ready to put forward severally, that, in the question under consideration, the...
Page 222 - ... venosum, which, in consequence of the impediment to the return of the blood from the lungs, occasion an engorgement of the right side of the heart and of the venous system, and in the end, cyanotic phenomena, with an extension of the hypertrophy and dilatation to the right side of the heart Further, those conditions of extreme thickness of the lung, continued compression of it, (by exudations) atelectasis, catarrh and bronchial dilatation, emphysema, pneumonia and extensive pneumonic induration,...
Page 131 - ... being its expansion. Sometimes there are several series of these sacculi attached, one series to another, exhibiting an arborescent appearance, but, in every instance, the secondary sacculi are extra-vascular.
Page 257 - ... hours, is requisite. Each of these, in turn, constantly maintains the parts in exact apposition, by gentle pressure of finger and thumb ; for in this way alone can the consequences of the movements of the face be guarded against. — L'Union Médicale, No. 76. M. Guersant observes that there are three periods at which this operation may be performed with different chances of success. The best chance is offered when it is performed within the first fifteen days. Later, we succeed less often, owing...