The Retrospect of Medicine: Being a Half-yearly Journal, Containing a Retrospective View of Every Discovery and Practical Improvement in the Medical Sciences, Svazek 64

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Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1872
 

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Strana 21 - ... blood free from dirt. The instruments employed were raised to a red heat just before use, the thread was silver thread and was similarly treated, and the porcelain cups, though not kept free from air, were kept free from currents. He said he often had failures, and these he attributed to particles of dust having escaped his precautions.
Strana 187 - After twelve or fourteen hours' action, the first application is to be removed, and a new portion of smaller size adapted to the sore. After this has been applied for twelve hours, the operation is complete, and the healing of the deep excavation alone requires to be attended to, for the details of which we must refer our readers to Mr.
Strana 22 - ... to see on the one side dubious facts and defective logic, and on the other side firm reasoning and a knowledge of what rigid experimental inquiry demands. But judged of practically, what, again, has the question of Spontaneous Generation to do with us ? Let us see. There are numerous diseases of men and animals that are demonstrably the products of parasitic life, and such...
Strana 24 - Once, then, established within the body, this evil form of life, if you will allow me to call it so, must run its course. Medicine as yet is powerless to arrest its progress, and the great point to be aimed at is to prevent its access to the body. It was with this thought in my mind that I ventured to recommend, more than a year ago, the use of cotton-wool respirators in infectious places. I would here repeat my belief in their efficacy if properly constructed. But I do not wish to prejudice the...
Strana 24 - As to the germ theory itself,' writes Dr. Budd, ' that is a matter on which I have long since made up my mind. From the day when I first began to think of these subjects I have never had a doubt that the specific cause of contagious fevers must be living organisms.
Strana 142 - Any tendons which are rigid should first be divided, and the punctures having healed, and chloroform having been fully administered, the limb to be operated on should be so firmly fixed that all motion is prevented, except that which the operator is about to impart to the limb. Thus, for instance, if the hip-joint is to be operated on, the pelvis must be fixed ; if the knee, the thigh must be securely held ; and so on. When the limbs are thus firmly secured, the adhesions are to be instantaneously...
Strana 23 - ... the typhoid virus increase and multiply into typhoid fever, the scarlatina virus into scarlatina, the small-pox virus into small-pox. What is the conclusion that suggests itself here? It is this : — That the thing which we vaguely call a virus is to all intents and purposes a seed...
Strana 178 - It consists of a flattened metal tube, six inches (more or less) in length, open at both ends, with a sliding steel tongue running its entire length, and having a vice arrangement at the upper extremity, by which it can be made to protrude from or retract within the tube or sheath. The lower end of the tongue is hook-shaped, so as to be adapted to the artery to be constricted. It is so shaped that, having grasped...
Strana 25 - ... them left his service. He asked me could I help him, and I gave him my advice. At the conclusion of the season this year he wrote to me that he had simply folded a little cotton-wool in muslin, and tied it in front of the mouth ; that he had passed through the season in comfort and without a single complaint from one of his men. The substance has also been turned to other uses. An invalid tells me that at night he places a little of the wool before his mouth, slightly moistening it to make it...
Strana 27 - Under the influence of certain external conditions, elements of the body, which should have developed in due subordination to its general plan, set up for themselves and apply the nourishment which they receive to their own purposes. From such innocent productions as corns and warts, there are all gradations to the serious...

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