The Western Journal of Medicine, Volume 2Theophilus Parvin T. Parvin & Company, 1867 |
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... attending the wards of the Middlesex Hospital may wonder indeed , after hearing my estimate of the power of bloodletting over inflammation , that I so seldom prescribe venesection there . The truth is , not that I undervalue the remedy ...
... attending the wards of the Middlesex Hospital may wonder indeed , after hearing my estimate of the power of bloodletting over inflammation , that I so seldom prescribe venesection there . The truth is , not that I undervalue the remedy ...
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... attended to all her duties at house- work without complaint , exhibiting no signs of disability until the sides of the tumor , by contact and friction against the thighs , became ulcerated , and compelled her to lie in bed . She had ...
... attended to all her duties at house- work without complaint , exhibiting no signs of disability until the sides of the tumor , by contact and friction against the thighs , became ulcerated , and compelled her to lie in bed . She had ...
Page 67
... attended with the usual symptoms of this disease , viz : the entire body convulsed ; head thrown back and drawn to the right side ; eyes rolled upward in their sockets ; hands forcibly clenched ; rigid muscular contrac- tion of arms and ...
... attended with the usual symptoms of this disease , viz : the entire body convulsed ; head thrown back and drawn to the right side ; eyes rolled upward in their sockets ; hands forcibly clenched ; rigid muscular contrac- tion of arms and ...
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... attended her for some days ; but as she continued to grow worse , she was brought to the hospital . -- Condition on admission . Is very feeble , but not emaciated ; pulse 108 to 112 ; appetite very poor ; bowels loose and discharges of ...
... attended her for some days ; but as she continued to grow worse , she was brought to the hospital . -- Condition on admission . Is very feeble , but not emaciated ; pulse 108 to 112 ; appetite very poor ; bowels loose and discharges of ...
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... attend Mrs. J. McC . , a healthy woman of robust constitution , whom I had de- livered some two years before of a still - born infant , after a very protracted and exhausting labor , the consequence of a marked narrowing of the pelvis ...
... attend Mrs. J. McC . , a healthy woman of robust constitution , whom I had de- livered some two years before of a still - born infant , after a very protracted and exhausting labor , the consequence of a marked narrowing of the pelvis ...
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Page 688 - 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.
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Page 137 - We now apply our fingers upon the top of the shoulder, and our thumb in the opposite axilla, or on such part as will give us command of the chest, and enable us to apply a degree of lateral force. Our left hand is also applied to the abdomen of the patient, over the breech of the foetus.
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