The Medical Times and Gazette, Volume 2J. & A. Churchill, 1873 - Medicine |
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Page 199 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...
Page 272 - This frame, compacted, with transcendent skill, Of moving joints obedient to my will; Nursed from the fruitful glebe, like yonder tree, Waxes and wastes; I call it mine, not me: New matter still the mouldering mass sustains, The mansion changed, the tenant still remains: And from the fleeting stream repaired by food, Distinct, as is the swimmer from the flood.
Page 287 - Members or licentiates of any legally constituted College of Surgeons in the United Kingdom, and graduates in surgery of any university requiring residence to obtain degrees, will be admitted for examination on producing their diploma, licence, or degree, together with proof of being twenty-one years of age, and of having been occupied at least four years in the acquirement of professional knowledge.
Page 164 - It may be generated independently of a previous case by fermentation of fecal and perhaps other organic matter. It may be communicated by the sick to persons in health, but even then, the poison is not like that of smallpox, given off from the body in virulent form, but is developed by the decomposition of the excreta after their discharge.
Page 266 - The family has but two methods at its service which it always exhausts - entreaties and menaces, - and which both serve as a touchstone. The delicacies of the table are multiplied in the hope of stimulating the appetite; but the more the solicitude increases, the more the appetite diminishes.
Page 277 - Saryery.—fhe candidate must have passed all the examinations for the degree of MB, and must produce certificates of having attended a second course of lectures on Human Anatomy, one course of lectures on the Principles and Practice of Surgery, one year's clinical surgical lectures, ten cases of midwifery, a second season of dissections, three years' surgical practice of a recognised hospital, and of having been House-Surgeon or Dresser for six months.
Page 121 - Lungs congested posteriorly ; extreme staining of inside of heart and bloodvessels ; liver healthy ; spleen enlarged, and broke down into a pulp when cut ; kidneys presented numerous hemorrhagic spots, varying in size between a pin's head and a small pea, many of these showed signs of softening in their centre ; bladder healthy, walls rather hypertrophied. Around the seat of stricture, at the junction of the spongy and membranous portions of the urethra, there was a slight extravasation of blood...
Page 275 - No Medical Student shall be registered until he has passed a Preliminary Examination, as required by the General Medical Council, and has produced evidence that he has commenced Medical Study.
Page 278 - ... on Clinical Surgery. 5. Of having attended the medical practice of a recognised hospital or hospitals during two years, with clinical instruction and lectures on Clinical Medicine.
Page 244 - The amount of oxygen required to oxidise the organic matter, nitrites, etc., is determined by a standard solution of permanganate of potash acting for three hours ; and in the case of the metropolitan waters the quantity of organic matter is about eight times the amount of oxygen required by it.