The Lancet, Band 2

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J. Onwhyn, 1840
 

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Seite 317 - ... shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and being convicted thereof shall be liable at the discretion of the court to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour.
Seite 498 - And be it enacted, that if any person shall maliciously publish any defamatory libel, knowing the same to be false, every such person, being convicted thereof, shall be liable to be imprisoned in the common gaol or house of correction for any term not exceeding two years, and to pay such fine as the Court shall award.
Seite 168 - On laying bare the roots of the spinal nerves, I found that I could cut across the posterior fasciculus of nerves, which took its origin from the posterior portion of the spinal marrow without convulsing the muscles of the back; but that on touching the anterior fasciculus with the point of the knife, the muscles of the back were immediately convulsed.
Seite 498 - Any person who shall produce or attempt to produce in any person by inoculation with variolous matter, or by wilful exposure to variolous matter, or to any matter, article, or thing impregnated with variolous matter, or wilfully by any other means whatsoever produce the disease of smallpox in any person...
Seite 498 - Ireland shall be interpreted in like manner as such word is directed to be interpreted in an Act passed in the first and second year of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled, " An Act for the more effectual Relief of the Destitute Poor in Ireland.
Seite 250 - The patient being placed on the table, with one folded sheet passed under the right axilla, and held by six assistants, another fastened round the right hand and held by six more, and a third round the upper part of the humerus...
Seite 168 - Next considering that the spinal nerves have a double root, and being of opinion that the properties of the nerves are derived from their connections with the parts of the brain, I thought that I had an opportunity of putting my opinion to the test of experiment, and of proving at the same time that nerves of different endowments were in the same cord, and held together by the same sheath.
Seite 167 - That the cerebrum and cerebellum are different in function as in form ; That the parts of the cerebrum have different functions ; and that the nerves which we trace in the body are not single nerves possessing various powers, but bundles of different nerves, whose filaments are united for the convenience of distribution, but which are distinct in office, as they are in origin from the brain...
Seite 134 - Gerhard, aet. ten, affected with squint since his fourth year. His parents wishing him to become a printer, were anxious to have this defect removed as it interfered with composing. The right eye was so completely drawn into the inner angle that on a first view, the point of junction of the iris and sclerotica formed the centre of the anterior surface of the eyeball. By an effort the eye could be drawn from the canthus and placed straight, but could not be turned at all outwards. The operation was...
Seite 308 - In other terms, the mortality of cities in England and Wales is high, but it may be immeasurably reduced. A good, general system of sewers ; the intersection of the dense, crowded districts of the metropolis by a few spacious streets ; and a park in the East end of London would probably diminish the annual deaths by several thousands, prevent many years of sickness, and add several years to the lives of the entire population.

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