Canada Medical Journal and Monthly Record of Medical and Surgical Science, Volume 1

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1867

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Page 339 - A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE PHYSICAL EXPLORATION OF THE CHEST, AND THE DIAGNOSIS OF DISEASES AFFECTING THE RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
Page 110 - The Diagnosis, Pathology, and Treatment of Diseases of Women ; including the Diagnosis of Pregnancy. By GRAILY HEWITT, MD &c. President of the Obstetrical Society of London. Second Edition, enlarged; with 116 Woodcuts. 8vo. 24s. Lectures on the Diseases of Infancy and Childhood. By CHARLES WEST, MD &c.
Page 217 - The third reason of the frightful extent of this crime is found in the grave defects of our laws, both common and statute, as regards the independent and actual existence of the child before birth, as a living being. These errors, which are sufficient in most instances to prevent conviction, are based, and only based, upon mistaken and exploded medical dogmas. With strange inconsistency, the law fully acknowledges the foetus in utero and its inherent rights, for civil purposes; while personally and...
Page 215 - ... present this subject to the attention of the several legislative assemblies of the Union, with the prayer that the laws by which the crime of procuring abortion is attempted to be controlled, may be revised, and that such other action may be taken in the premises as they in their wisdom may deem necessary. Resolved, That the association request the zealous cooperation of the various State Medical Societies in pressing the subject upon the legislatures of their respective States, and that the...
Page 534 - The lateral ligaments connecting the astragalus with the tibia and fibula were now divided, and the knife was carried into the joint on each side, extreme care being observed to avoid wounding the anterior tibial artery, which was in view. The astragalus was then detached from the soft parts in front of the joint and from its articulation with the scaphoid bone, and the malleoli were removed with the bone-nippers. The only artery requiring ligature was the posterior tibial.
Page 270 - If any registered medical practitioner shall be convicted in England or Ireland of any felony or misdemeanour, or in Scotland of any crime or offence, or shall after due inquiry be judged by the general council to have been guilty of infamous conduct in any professional respect, the general council may, if they see fit, direct the registrar to erase the name of such medical practitioner from the...
Page 366 - Medical Men in the Navy, Dr. WM Wood, USN, chairman ; on Insanity, Dr Isaac Ray, RI, chairman ; on American Medical Necrology, Dr. CC Cox, Md., chairman ; on the Causes of Epidemics, Dr. Thomas Antisell, DC, chairman ; on Compulsory Vaccination, Dr. AN Bell, NY, chairman ; on Leakage of Gas-Pipes, Dr. JC Draper, NY, chairman ; on Alcohol and its Relations to Man, Dr. JRW Dunbar, Md., chairman ; on the Various Surgical Operations for the Relief of Defective Vision, Dr.
Page 390 - ... teeth had all appeared. A third child was born to these parents. It also suffered with symptoms similar to those of the others, but in a less degree. The same remedy relieved...
Page 288 - A variety of disinfectants were employed freely and constantly in every vessel and closet which received the excreta; even the excreta from the stomach were disinfected immediately after they were received into a vessel or fell upon the floor; stoves were placed in each hospital ward to insure a draught; all windows were kept open day and night ; the clothing taken from cholera patients was sent directly to the boilers ; a ward was established for patients with the diarrhoea, and the value of this...
Page 140 - ... these I could determine the size of the globules therein contained. These globules were exactly the same size as some globules from dried human blood which I purposely procured, and tested with the same apparatus in the same way. Finding this evidence of blood to be small, I obtained more numerous sections of the coloured surface of the handle of the hatchet, immersed them in distilled water, and obtained thereby a slightly coloured solution, which after filtering was ready for chemical tests,...

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