The Dublin Journal of Medical Science, Volume 81Fannin & Company, 1886 |
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Page 128 - There is a tide in the affaire of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows, and in miseries.
Page 223 - ... follow the Law of Mahommet, but there are also Nestorian and Jacobite Christians. They are subject to the same Prince that I mentioned, the Great Kaan's nephew. They have plenty of everything [particularly of cotton. The inhabitants are also great craftsmen, but a large proportion of them have swoln legs, and great crops at the throat, which arises from some quality in their drinkingwater].
Page 475 - The distention of the ventricle is such that the mitral curtains are brought into coaptation, and when the auricular contraction takes place the mitral direct current passing between the curtains throws them into vibration and gives rise to the characteristic blubbering murmur.
Page 436 - An application in writing must be made by the friends or executors of the deceased — unless it has been made by the deceased person himself during life — stating that it was the wish of the deceased to be cremated after death.
Page 189 - ... the smooth convex surface to the skin. This mustard sponge, warmed again by the fire, and slightly moistened, can be applied three or four times, is good for several hours, and saves the trouble of making a new poultice for re-application, often a matter of importance during the weariness of night watching. The sponge can afterwards easily be washed clean in warm water.
Page 431 - We may safely rest the sanitary part of the case on the single fact that the placing of the dead body in a grave, and covering it with a few feet of earth, does not prevent the gases generated by decomposition, together with putrescent matters which they hold in suspension, from permeating the surrounding soil and escaping into the air above and the water beneath.
Page 389 - Fuller indicates it to be, with other good qualities which he ascribes to it, it is a matter of surprise that it has not been more extensively cultivated. The plant itself is quite ornamental, and it certainly deserves further trial, especially in the cold Northwest. THE BLACK HAW (Viburnum prunifolium).
Page 559 - The objection to the employment of kairin and thallin as antipyretics arises from the fact that they cause heart paralysis, especially affecting the auricles, in doses only slightly larger than are sufficient to produce a lowering of the temperature. But this objection becomes an absolute danger when we take into account the destructive influence upon the blood-corpuscles and tissues generally.
Page 538 - ... and that the body had been afterwards partly roasted and hewn into several pieces. The earth in the child's throat and trachea had the same composition, chemical and otherwise, as that of the potato-field, and was different from the earth taken from the cellar-floor. The mother was, however, convicted of murder and sentenced to death, the sentence being afterwards commuted to penal servitude for life. She then confessed that her daughter's statement was true. The latter had brought the child...
Page 356 - In a few hours the attacks became so frequent that they succeeded without interruption, producing syncope, absolute prostration of power, noises in the ears, chills, cold and profuse sweats, frequent and filiform pulse. Her life was manifestly in danger. Means the most varied to arrest this vomiting had been employed without result. In their turn antispasmodics had been used (ether, valerian, musk), then opiates, choral, carbonated and iced drinks, iodine (internally and externally), blisters upon...