Summary of the Transactions of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia

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335. oldal - The trivial round, the common task, Will furnish all we ought to ask; Room to deny ourselves; a road To bring us daily nearer God.
26. oldal - Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And help'd to plant the wound that laid thee low: So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again...
394. oldal - Queens; the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth...
26. oldal - Science' self destroyed her favorite son ! Yes, she too much indulged thy fond pursuit, . She sowed the seeds, but Death has reaped the fruit. 'T was thine own genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low : So the struck eagle...
26. oldal - So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart ; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel ; While the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.
410. oldal - So in the distribution of property of deceased persons, these returns are of the utmost importance. Had our present admirable system of registration of births, marriages and deaths been in operation during the war of the revolution, and that of 1812, some hundreds of thousands of dollars would have been saved to the people of this State, and hundreds of families, which for years struggled in adversity, would have been made comfortable during their lives. Already these records have been resorted to,...
404. oldal - I think we may conclude that the influence of morphia in preventing the detection of minute quantities of strychnia, in the presence of an organic fluid, depends upon the relative quantity of the two alkaloids; the strychnia being not discoverable when the morphia is in excess, and barely discoverable when in equal quantity.
198. oldal - ... them, Dr. Rogers directed his efforts to determine how far that substance was pure. He was unable to procure a specimen of the identical subnitrate which had been administered, not succeeding in finding the druggist who had sold it, but obtained a number of samples from individuals throughout the city, and prepared, many of them, by different manufacturers. Of ten specimens, some of which were imported, which he examined, all were found to contain arsenic with the exception of two.
198. oldal - ... signs of irritation or inflammation, such as might have been expected in a case of arsenical poisoning. Hence, in the absence of any proof of an absolute amount of arsenic adequate to destroy life, the mere fact of the discovery of a poisonous adulteration of the medicine administered was considered sufficient to invalidate the evidence against the prisoner, and to justify her immediate acquittal. During the early days of the trial, nothing occurred to indicate that arsenic had been administered...
291. oldal - The adhesive plaster bands are beyond all comparison the best means of making permanent extension which are at present known to surgeons. Hitherto, one of the most serious difficulties in the way of extension, and the objection which has been most effectively urged against its adoption, has been the excoriations, ulcerations, and even sloughing, which so often occurred from the use of the various extending bands about the ankle. This, together with the injuries occasionally inflicted by the perineal...

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