Midland Medical Miscellany and Provincial Medical Journal, Volumen2

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1883

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Página 79 - Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books.
Página 163 - But no one can be considered as a regular practitioner, or a fit associate in consultation, whose practice is based on an exclusive dogma, to the rejection of the accumulated experience of the profession, and of the aids actually furnished by anatomy, physiology, pathology, and organic chemistry.
Página 79 - If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead, under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.
Página 182 - ... which has its own peculiar form — urine alkaline. 4. Every yellow crystal is uric acid if the urine is acid, or a urate if the urine is alkaline. 5. Mucous casts, pus, and epithelium signify disease of the bladder (cystitis) or of other parts of the urinary tract, as determined by variety of epithelium.
Página 105 - The sense of space, and in the end the sense of time, were both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c. were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity.
Página 255 - Lazarus rose not but by a miracle. Begin a reformation, and custom will make it easy. But what if the beginning be dreadful, the first steps not like climbing a mountain but going through fire? what if the whole system must undergo a change violent as that which we conceive of the mutation of form in some insects?
Página 163 - Association, and who is in good moral and professional standing in the place in which he resides, should be fastidiously excluded from fellowship, or his aid refused in consultation, when it is requested by the patient.
Página 105 - I was stared at, hooted at, grinned at, chattered at, by monkeys, by paroquets, by cockatoos. I ran into pagodas; and was fixed for centuries at the summit, or in secret rooms; I was the idol; I was the priest; I was worshipped; I was sacrificed.
Página 182 - Sediment in the urine has no significance unless deposited within twenty-four hours. 2. Albumen in the urine does not indicate kidney disease unless accompanied by tube-casts. The most fatal form of Bright's disease — contracted kidney — has little or no albumen. 3. Every white crystal in urine, regardless of shape, is a phosphate, except the oxalate of lime, which has its own peculiar form — urine alkaline. 4. Every yellow crystal is uric acid if the urine is acid, or a urate if the urine...
Página 181 - ... abroad, has not been wholly desirable, and that it appears in forcible contrast to the action of at least one foreign Government in dealing with the same subject matter. It Is the universal desire of the construction departments in navies to keep their designs, as nearly as possible, secret ; and, so far as I am aware, this is the only Instance In which disapproval of this policy has been apparently indicated by the legislative branch of any government.

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