The New-England Journal of Medicine and Surgery: And Collateral Branches of Science, 7. kötet

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John Ware
Wells and Lilly, 1818

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194. oldal - ... Medical Society of the State of New York, it was carried into effect. This society issued circulars requesting the co-operation of the several incorporated State Medical Societies, the several incorporated Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons, or Medical Schools, or such medical bodies as constituted a faculty in any incorporated university or college in the United States ; and in any State or Territory in which there was no incorporated medical society, college, or school, voluntary associations...
4. oldal - Morphium melts in a gentle heat ; and in that state has very much the appearance of melted sulphur. On cooling, it again crystallizes. It burns easily; and when heated in close vessels, leaves a solid, resinous, black matter, having a peculiar smell. It combines with sulphur by the assistance of heat ; but the combination is speedily destroyed, and sulphureted hydrogen gas evolved.
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372. oldal - Having divided the linea alba, I made a small aperture into the peritoneum, and introduced my finger into the abdomen; and then, with a probe-pointed bistoury, enlarged the opening into the peritoneum to nearly the same extent as that of the external wound. Neither the omentum nor intestines protruded; and during the progress of the operation, only one small convolution projected beyond the wound.
372. oldal - Key, drew the ligature from the eye of the needle to the external wound ; after which the needle was immediately withdrawn. " The next circumstance, which required considerable care, was the exclusion of the intestine from the ligature, the ends of which •were brought together at the wound, and the finger was carried down between them, so as to remove every portion of the intestine from between the threads : the ligature was then tied, and its ends were left hanging from the wound. The omentum...
372. oldal - ... minute. He was ordered thirty drops of tincture of opium and camphorated mixture, and the involuntary discharge of faeces soon after ceased. I applied my hand to his right thigh immediately after the operation, and he said that I touched his foot ; so that the sensibility of that leg was very imperfect.
55. oldal - Whether the Indians can so prepare that stupifying herb, Datura, that they make it lie several days, months, years, according as they will have it, in a man's body, without doing him any hurt, and at the end kill him without missing half an hour's time?
92. oldal - She perceived through a plane glass, as before, the image of the sun reflected from a plane mirror ; also the sun itself. She said that she was not dazzled with it, but found it very pleasant. EXPER. XVI. — She accurately described the features of two persons, whom she had never seen before, holding the plane glass at the distance of three or four inches from the face. EXPER. XVII. — Several small objects were held over her head. She perceived them all through her plane glass. On one occasion...
91. oldal - The red and orange rays of the solar spectrum being thrown by a prism upon her hand, she said it appeared as gold. All the colours being thrown on the back of her hand, she distinctly described the different parts of her hand. She marked the moments when the colours became faint, and again vivid, by the occasional passage of a cloud, without being desired to do so. The prismatic colours afforded her the greatest pleasure that she had experienced since her blindness. Never saw a prism in her life....

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