Medical Examiner, Volume 13

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1872
 

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Page 26 - A Treatise on Human Physiology : designed for the use of Students and Practitioners of Medicine. By JOHN C. DALTON, MD, Professor of Physiology and Hygiene in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York.
Page 128 - THE URINE AND ITS DERANGEMENTS with the Application of Physiological Chemistry to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Constitutional as well as Local Diseases.
Page 319 - THE PHYSIOLOGY OF MAN. Designed to represent the Existing State of Physiological Science as applied to the Functions of the Human Body.
Page 42 - ... medical practitioner should prescribe it without a sense of grave responsibility. They believe that alcohol, in whatever form, should be prescribed with as much care as any powerful drug, and that the directions for its use should be so framed as not to be interpreted as a sanction for excess, or necessarily for the continuance of its use when the occasion is past.
Page 48 - Papers appropriate to the several sections, in order to secure consideration and action, must be sent -to the secretary of the appropriate section at least one month before the meeting which is to act upon them. It shall be the duty of the secretary to whom such papers are sent to examine them with care, and, with the advice of the chairman of his section, to determine the time and order of their presentation, and give due notice of the same.
Page 204 - The education furnished by the Institution will include,, not only the simpler elements of instruction usually taught in common schools, where that is practicable, but will embrace a course of training in the more practical matters of every-day life ; the cultivation of habits of decency, propriety, self-reliance, and the development and enlargement of a capacity for useful occupation.
Page 42 - As it is believed that the inconsiderate prescription of large quantities of alcoholic liquids by medical men for their patients has given rise, in many instances, to the formation of intemperate habits...
Page 204 - The improvement and progress of the pupils have been very encouraging, and parents and friends in almost every instance have expressed satisfaction with what has been accomplished in the short time since the school was organized. The Institution is open to the inspection of the public at all reasonable hours; and all are not only cordially invited, but are earnestly requested to visit the school. It is a State Institution, and board and tuition are free during the school year of ten months.
Page 204 - The objects of the Association are, by periodical and migratory meetings, to promote intercourse between those who are cultivating science in different parts of the United States, to give a stronger and more general impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific research in our country, and to procure for the labors of scientific men increased facilities and a wider usefulness.
Page 62 - ... growth thus obtained into the trachea,- of young rabbits. This was effected by tracheotomy; but the animals rapidly recovered from the effects of the operation, and in a short time became affected with a cough of a very violent and noisy character — in fact, a genuine whooping-cough. The rabbits thus affected were killed, and their air-passages and lungs found to contain an enormous quantity of the same fungus as that met with in the sputa from human whoopingcough, and, in fact, the mucus expectorated...

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