The Practitioner, Band 18

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John Brigg, 1877

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Seite 281 - Medicinal Plants: being descriptions, with original Figures, of the Principal Plants employed in Medicine, and an account of their Properties and Uses.
Seite 203 - A MANUAL OF AUSCULTATION AND PERCUSSION; of the Physical Diagnosis of Diseases of the Lungs and Heart, and of Thoracic Aneurism.
Seite 299 - ... in the proportion of one part of the former to ten of the latter. He has found it much more effective than astringents or other methods which he has tried, and the combination of the acid with the oil was much better than the acid with water. His method of application is to cleanse the ear thoroughly by cotton or a probe, avoiding syringing unless...
Seite 279 - A Treatise on the Diseases of Infancy and Childhood. By J. LEWIS SMITH, MD, Clinical Professor of Diseases of Children in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York.
Seite 386 - ... 7. That town sewage can best and most cheaply be disposed of and purified by the process of land irrigation for agricultural purposes, where local conditions are favourable to its application, but that the chemical value of sewage is greatly reduced to the farmer by the fact that it must be disposed of da,y by day throughout the entire year, and that its volume is generally greatest when it is of the least service to the land.
Seite 386 - ... 5. That, as far as we have been able to ascertain, none of the existing modes of treating town-sewage by deposition and by chemicals in tanks appear to effect much change beyond the separation of the solids, and the clarification of the liquid. That the treatment of sewage in this manner, however, effects a considerable improvement, and, when carried to its greatest perfection, may, in some cases, be accepted.
Seite 464 - Ez fer the war, I go agin it, — I mean to say I kind o' du, — Thet is, I mean thet, bein' in it, The best way wuz to fight it thru ; Not but wut abstract war is horrid, I sign to thet with all my heart, — But civlyzation doos git forrid Sometimes upon a powder-cart. About thet darned Proviso matter I never hed a grain o' doubt, Nor I aint one my sense to scatter So 'st no one could n't pick it out ; My love fer North an...
Seite 83 - It will be seen," says Prof. Maclean, "that quinine is the most important ingredient in the formula, each ounce bottle containing nine grains and a half of the alkaloid. Its presence has been detected by every chemist who has attempted its analysis", and never doubted by any medical man of experience who has used the tincture. Many will say ' after all, this vaunted remedy is only quinine concealed in a farrago of inert substances for purposes of mystification.
Seite 149 - ... bedding, etc.,) to any distance; and when liberated may find their way direct to the alimentary canal through the medium of the air — by entering the mouth and nose and being swallowed with the saliva — or, less directly, through the medium of water or food in which they have lodged.
Seite 204 - Cholera can be transmitted by personal effects coming from an infected place, especially such as have served for the sick from cholera ; and certain facts show that the disease can be carried to a distance by these effects if shut up so as to prevent free contact with the air.

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