Southern Practitioner: An Independent Monthly Journal Devoted to Medicine and Surgery, Volumen 30,Número 8

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1908
 

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Página 400 - ... cadaver. Successful candidates will be numbered according to their attainments on examination, and will be commissioned in the same order, as vacancies occur.
Página 401 - ... service. The tenure of office is permanent. Officers traveling under orders are allowed actual expenses. For...
Página 373 - It makes its approach in so slow and insidious a manner that the patient can hardly fix a date to his earliest feeling of that languor which is shortly to become so extreme. The countenance gets pale, the whites of the eyes become pearly, the general frame flabby rather than wasted, the pulse perhaps large, but remarkably soft and compressible, and occasionally with a slight jerk, especially under...
Página 400 - B street SE., Washington, DC, Monday, January 20, 1908, at 10 o'clock am, for the purpose of examining candidates for admission to the grade of assistant surgeon in the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service.
Página 373 - ... attempting it ; the heart is readily made to palpitate ; the whole surface of the body presents a blanched, smooth, and waxy appearance ; the lips, gums, and tongue seem bloodless ; the flabbiness of the solids increases ; the appetite fails ; extreme languor and faintness supervene, breathlessness and...
Página 398 - Thousands have been expended in stamping out cholera among swine, but not one dollar was ever voted for eradicating pneumonia among human beings. Hundreds of thousands are consumed in saving the lives of elm trees from the attacks of beetles; in warning farmers against blights affecting potato plants; in importing Sicilian bugs to fertilize fig blossoms in California; in ostracizing various species of weeds from the ranks of the useful plants, and in exterminating parasitic growths that prey on fruit...
Página 400 - B Street, SE, Washington. DC, and at the Marine Hospitals of Boston. Mass.; Chicago, 111.; St. Louis, Mo. ; New Orleans, La., and San Francisco, Cal., on Monday, October 20, 1913, at 10 o'clock am. for the purpose of examining candidates for admission to the grade of assistant surgeon in the Public Health Service, when applications for examination at these stations are received in the Bureau.
Página 356 - Syrup of Hypophosphites has tempted certain persons to offer imitations of it for sale. Mr. Fellows, who has examined samples of several of these, finds that no two of them are identical, and that all of them differ from the original in composition, in freedom from acid reaction, in susceptibility to the effects of oxygen when exposed to light or heat, in the property of retaining th - strychnine in solution, and in the medicinal effects.
Página 398 - ... useful plants, and in exterminating parasitic growths that prey on fruit trees. In fact, the department of agriculture has expended during the last ten years over forty-six millions of dollars. But not a wheel of the official machinery at Washington was ever set in motion for the alleviation or cure of diseases of the heart or kidneys, which will carry off over six millions of our entire population. Eight millions will perish of pneumonia, and the entire event is accepted by the American people...

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