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... membrane or not , it was not the author's intention to discuss . This , how- ever , he remarked , that so soon as the signs of gastro - alimentary irritation . were subdued , the signs of general fever subsided . Some two or three cases ...
... membrane or not , it was not the author's intention to discuss . This , how- ever , he remarked , that so soon as the signs of gastro - alimentary irritation . were subdued , the signs of general fever subsided . Some two or three cases ...
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... membranes of the bronchi and gastro- alimentary passages were complicated . Very soon his fears on this head were dissipated by the convincing evidence of experience ; in fact , these proved the cases in which the decided benefit of the ...
... membranes of the bronchi and gastro- alimentary passages were complicated . Very soon his fears on this head were dissipated by the convincing evidence of experience ; in fact , these proved the cases in which the decided benefit of the ...
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... membrane , that the sneezing and the epilepsy are the result of changes produced in the blood . But to return to the subject of the action of medicine : It is evident from the facts already brought forward in my previous memoirs , that ...
... membrane , that the sneezing and the epilepsy are the result of changes produced in the blood . But to return to the subject of the action of medicine : It is evident from the facts already brought forward in my previous memoirs , that ...
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... membrane itself , as a local stimulant , producing effects analogous to those which follow the application of diluted caustics to the mucous membrane of the eye and of the urethra : but there are undoubtedly cases in which it is ...
... membrane itself , as a local stimulant , producing effects analogous to those which follow the application of diluted caustics to the mucous membrane of the eye and of the urethra : but there are undoubtedly cases in which it is ...
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... membrane are both excretory tissues , sustaining toward each other an antagonistical relation . By securing the active per- formance of the cutaneous functions in bronchitis , we not only do good by way of revulsion , but the inflamed ...
... membrane are both excretory tissues , sustaining toward each other an antagonistical relation . By securing the active per- formance of the cutaneous functions in bronchitis , we not only do good by way of revulsion , but the inflamed ...
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Page 107 - During the whole of this time the symptoms remained precisely as they were the moment he first observed them ; but as he was walking along, on his return, they suddenly increased, the numbness being accompanied by a sense of want of power, and a sort of dragging of the muscles of the legs, which soon became so great, that, as he describes it, he had to put his hands at the back of his thighs in order to push h'is legs along.