The Eclectic Journal of Medicine ...Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell, 1840 |
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Page 227 - Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be presented to the family of the deceased and published in the papers of the city.
Page 145 - May, 1859, issue a notice requesting the several incorporated State Medical Societies, the incorporated Medical Colleges, the incorporated Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons, and the incorporated Colleges of Pharmacy, throughout the United States, to elect a number of delegates, not exceeding three, to attend a general Convention, to be held at Washington, on the first Wednesday in May, 1860.
Page 336 - ... and thereto a sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the town, that peradventure lay seldom in a bed of down or whole feathers...
Page 258 - No form of straight waistcoat, no handcuff's, no leg locks, nor any contrivance confining the trunk or limbs, or any of the muscles, is now in use. The coercion chairs, about forty in number, have been altogether removed from the wards
Page 461 - ... inches ; whilst the omentum, kidneys, and heart were loaded with fat. The last organ was remarkably small, and the muscle flabby ; in contradiction to our ideal associations, and in proof of the seeming paradox, that it is possible to be a very great man with a very little heart. ' Several peculiarities were noticed about the body. He appeared at some time to have had an issue opened in the arm, and there was a slight mark like a wound in the leg, but which might have been caused by a suppurating...
Page 403 - ... a defect in the sensorium, by which it is rendered incapable of appreciating exactly those differences between rays on which their colour depends.
Page 402 - Young thinks it much more simple to suppose the absence or paralysis of those fibres of the retina which are calculated to perceive red ; while Dr.
Page 14 - At each pan stood a workman stirring the tea rapidly round with his hand, having previously added a small quantity of turmeric in powder, which of course gave the leaves a yellowish or orange tinge ; but they were still to be made green. For this purpose some lumps of a fine blue were produced, together with a white substance in powder, which from the names given to them by the workmen, as well as their appearance, were known at once to be prussian blue and gypsum...
Page 145 - The several medical and pharmaceutical bodies shall be further requested to transmit to the President of this Convention the names and residences of their respective delegates as soon as they shall have been appointed, a list of whom shall be published, under his authority, for the information of the medical public, in the newspapers and medical. journals, in the month of March, 1850.
Page 145 - Jan. 3d, 1840." The following resolutions were offered by Dr. Wood, and adopted by the Convention : — Resolved, 1st. That the secretary take charge of and preserve the existing records, until his successor shall be appointed by the convention of 1850, when it shall be his duty to hand them over to such successor. 2d, That...