The Dublin Journal of Medical and Chemical Science, Volume 3Hodges and Smith, 1833 |
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Page 125 - These straps, weighing altogether about eight tons, were consequently separated from the solid points, and these last sold as old iron. The exterior difference between the parts of the same shoe, led, at first, to the supposition, that they were composed of two sorts of iron; but besides the utter improbability of this, the contrary was proved by an examination, which led to the inference that the extremities of the piles having been charred, the straps of iron closely wedged between them and the...
Page 125 - ... as were subjected to the experiment, except the straps; these, which in addition to their sonorousness, possessed a degree of toughness quite unapproached by common iron, and which were in fact imperfect carburets, produced steel of a quality infinitely superior to any which in the course of his business Mr. Weiss had ever before met with; insomuch, that while it was in general request among the workmen for tools, they demanded higher wages for working it. These straps, weighing altogether about...
Page 166 - ... said that she should be immediately choked if she discontinued this perpetual sipping, and she referred to an intolerable uneasiness at the root of her tongue and in her throat, threatening immediate suffocation the moment she ceased to employ herself in swallowing ; and so urgent was the feeling that impelled her to this act, that the moment an attempt was made to take the cup out of her hand, she began to scream with agony, was agitated with convulsions, and to all appearances seemed in the...
Page 168 - Tubingen, has particularly remarked this symptom, or at least something like it, in what he calls the abdominal typhus fever of young people; -for he says, if the patient takes any drink, a peculiar gurgling noise is heard as if the fluid was poured into a lifeless bag. Now, in precisely such a case, Mr.
Page 167 - He complained of various symptoms indicating debility and dyspepsia, but was chiefly annoyed by a painful and convulsive struggle, as he expressed it, which sometimes took place between the bit he had swallowed just before it entered the stomach, and a something that seemed to resist its further passage downwards. This lasted only for a few seconds, and was very distressing both to himself and the spectators, for, of course, it usually occurred at meals, and rendered him unwilling to dine in society....
Page 125 - ... the justness of his views, he purchased, as soon as an opportunity offered, all the iron, amounting to fifteen tons, with which the piles of London Bridge had been shod. Each shoe consisted of a small inverted pyramid with four straps rising from the four sides of its base, which embraced and were nailed to the pile ; the total length, from the point, which entered the ground, to the end of- the strap, being about sixteen inches, and the weight about eight pounds. The pyramidal extremities of...
Page 168 - I have witnessed several times a very peculiar species of dysphagia, evidently occasioned by flatulent distention of the stomach to such an extent that the lower portion of the oesophagus partook of this condition ; at least I conjecture so, for during the struggle of the dysphagic paroxysm, a gurgling noise was heard, as if the bit of food was met by a portion of air contained in the lower part of the oesophagus ; my friend Dr.
Page 137 - That they are the result of the sentient extremities, and of the re-action of the nervous centre. 3d. That they are as often caused by the excitement of the internal, as by that of th
Page 155 - If these means fail, they must far the moment be laid aside, and the constitutional treatment must be again resumed until the same number of days before the next period, when the list of remedies, above spoken of, must be again tried, and in few cases indeed shall we find them to fail.
Page 410 - They are anxious to purchase his services, in order that he may not be employed by others to poison them. Of course, where poisoning is so frequent an occurrence, the feelings of a Turk of rank are by no* means enviable, particularly when he is sick. It is then that he suffers mortal fear of being poisoned, and to prevent such a disaster, he always takes the precaution of making either the physician or a slave take part of the medicine by way of trial. The illness of the master thus sometimes undermines...