Surgical reports, and miscellaneous papers on medical subjectsPhillips, Sampson and Company, 1855 - 452 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 410 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labors, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Σελίδα 288 - Stanley, in the sixth volume of the Transactions of the College of Physicians, the cellular tissue of the pia mater was found to contain water.
Σελίδα 200 - She now sat up, introduced the instrument less frequently, and was allowed a more generous diet. At the end of seventeen days from the operation I examined her again ; the wound was entirely healed and apparently firm, and the soreness nearly gone. I advised her to introduce the catheter two or three times a day for some weeks ; and on the following day she returned home by water, a distance of nearly two hundred miles.
Σελίδα 355 - It proved fatal to several of the crew. 7. The great degree of immunity from the disease enjoyed by the attendants on the sick, both in Asia and Europe, can hardly be explained on the doctrine of contagion. Mr. Jameson, in the Bengal Report, states, that ' from a medical list consisting of between two hundred and fifty and three hundred individuals, most of whom saw the disease largely, only three persons were attacked, and one death only occurred.' In the Madras Report, it is stated, that out of...
Σελίδα 348 - I myself am convinced of the contagious nature of the disease, but that the proofs of its transmission from one individual to another are not quite perfect as yet. And believing so, I cannot of course be without some apprehension that it may also be conveyed by clothes and other articles, which have been in more immediate contact with the. sick, although the proofs of this are, as yet, still more defective. It is...
Σελίδα 21 - I operated was the sac, wilh thickened adipose matter partially surrounding it." inflammation of the hernial sac, having many common features of resemblance, and differing from each other only as they were in different stages of inflammation. In one of them the sac was gangrenous ; in the second, fibrin was effused in abundance, but no pus formed; in the third, suppuration took place; and in the fourth, the inflammation was so much reduced, that it no doubt terminated by resolution.
Σελίδα 198 - ... three lines. This was done partly with the view of increasing the chance of union, by presenting a larger surface, and partly to prevent the necessity of carrying the needles through the bladder. I then introduced a needle, about a third of an inch from the edge of the wound, through the membrane of the vagina and the cellular membrane beneath, and brought it out at the opposite side at about an equal distance. Before the needle was drawn through, a second and a third were introduced in the same...
Σελίδα 146 - Journal *'], it appears, that there were 70 operations on 67 patients, three patients having two limbs removed. In one of these three cases, one operation was above, and the other below the knee, and in the other two, both operations were below ; the fiist patient died, and the other two did well. "Of the whole number operated on...
Σελίδα 109 - ... resisting, more elastic, and not so firm as the original texture of the tendon. But, although this operation may not be found, on further trial, to be more successful than that of the scarification of the ring, yet, as it proposes to accomplish what has never been effected in any other way...
Σελίδα 369 - ... liver, or a torpid state of the bowels. The whole tribe of dyspeptics, if their trouble be not the effect of organic disease, may resort, with a well-grounded expectation of relief, to these healing waters. " Another numerous class of patients, known under the very common, but not very significant name of bilious, is said to find, very often, relief from them. Many persons of this description come to the springs from the south and southwest, whose constitutions have been shattered by the diseases...