Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science : Containing a Concise Explanation of the Various Subjects and Terms, with the French and Other Synonymes, Notices of Climate, and of Celebrated Mineral Waters, Formulae for Various Officinal and Empirical Preparations, Etc, Part 916; Part 1846 |
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Page 7 - Among these unhappy mortals is the writer of dictionaries, whom mankind have considered not as the pupil but the slave of science, the pioneer of literature, doomed only to remove rubbish and clear obstructions from the paths through which learning and genius press forward to conquest and glory, without bestowing a smile on the humble drudge that facilitates their progress. Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense...
Page 362 - Boil them to a proper thickness, then add a quarter of a pound of sugar, and two spoonsful of yeast. Set the whole in a warm place near the fire, for six or eight weeks, then place it in the open air until it becomes a syrup ; lastly, decant, filter, and bottle it up, adding a little sugar to each bottle.
Page 7 - The object of the author from the outset has not been to make the work a mere lexicon or dictionary of terms, but to afford, under each, a condensed view of its various medical relation?, and thus to render the work an epitome of the existing condition of medical science.
Page 118 - Bulla (Bleb). — A large portion of the cuticle detached from the skin by the interposition of a transparent, watery fluid.
Page 34 - Hagedorn, or any other that may be preferred, the surgeon, or any common attendant, will only find it requisite to pass the linen belts beneath his body [attaching them to the hooks on the ends of the straps, and adjusting the whole at the proper distance and length, so as to balance the body exactly], and raise it from the mattress by turning the handle of the windlass. While the patient* is thus suspended, the bed can be made up, and the fseces and urine evacuated.
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Page 194 - Contagious diseases are produced either by a virus, capable of causing them by inoculation, as. in small-pox, cow-pox, hydrophobia, syphilis, Ac., or by miasmata, proceeding from a sick individual, as in plague, typhus gravior, and in measles and scarlatina.
Page 95 - Take of Marble, in small pieces, six troyounces ; Muriatic Acid twelve troyounces ; Distilled Water a sufficient quantity. Mix the Acid with half a pint of Distilled Water, and gradually add the Marble. Towards the close of the effervescence apply a gentle heat, and, when the action has ceased, pour off the clear liquid, and evaporate to dryness. Dissolve the residue in one and a half times its weight of Distilled Water, and filter through paper.
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