Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, Volumen 42

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A. and C. Black, 1834
 

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Página iv - A Dictionary of Practical Medicine : Comprising General Pathology, the Nature and Treatment of Diseases, Morbid Structures, and the Disorders especially...
Página 317 - Chessy deposits, that is, in a quartzose rock scattered in nuggets varying from the size of a pea to that of a walnut. All the ores carry, besides iron and silica, a small percentage of manganese and alumina, together with an amount of zinc varying from two to eight per cent.
Página 436 - But, in the first place, this function is by no means confined to the limbs ; for, while it imparts to each muscle its appropriate tone, and to each system of muscles its appropriate equilibrium or balance, it performs the still more important office of presiding over the orifices and terminations of each of the internal canals in the animal economy, giving...
Página 156 - After the ointment has been applied a sufficient length of time to put the constitution completely under its influence, the feeling of heat and tingling extends itself from the place where the friction may have been made, over the whole surface of the body, and in some instances involuntary twitchings of the muscles of the mouth and eyelids are induced ; but these symptoms disappear so soon as the rubbing has been discontinued for a day or two, and no disagreeable consequences follow to the patient.
Página 437 - The first three modes of muscular action are known only by actual movements of muscular contractions. But the reflex function exists as a continuous muscular action, as a power presiding over organs not actually in a state of motion...
Página 195 - ... of an hepatic vein, and of minute arteries ; nerves and absorbents, it is to be presumed, also- enter into their formation, but cannot be traced into them.
Página 317 - The greater proportion of cases not requiring bleeding, the calomel was in general at once had recourse to, in the dose of a scruple, sometimes with the addition of a grain of opium, to be repeated every four or six hours, according to the urgency of the symptoms, and continued till ptyalism was produced.
Página 225 - ... state, and become acid only in consequence of disease. From the pylorus to the end of the intestinal canal, the mucus furnished by the mucous membrane itself is alkaline. 3. Serous and synovial membranes all secrete an alkaline liquor in a normal state, which in certain diseases sometimes becomes acid. 4. The external acid and the internal alkaline membranes of the human body represent the two poles of a pile, the electrical effects of which are appreciable by the galvanometer. Thus, in placing...
Página 436 - Between the brain and the muscles there is a circle of nerves; one nerve conveys the influence from the brain to the muscle; another gives the sense of the condition of the muscle to the brain.

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