British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review: Or, Quarterly Journal of Practial Medicine and Surgery, Volume 321863 - Medicine |
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... died from the excessive heat ; the few survivors experienced a like fate during a delay that occurred at Bombay . This result was the more annoying , as the circuitous route via Southampton might readily have been avoided by sending the ...
... died from the excessive heat ; the few survivors experienced a like fate during a delay that occurred at Bombay . This result was the more annoying , as the circuitous route via Southampton might readily have been avoided by sending the ...
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... died of pneumonia show this to be a condition of very frequent occurrence . The lung cannot be compressed by any moderate degree of force ; little or no air can be squeezed out of it ; but no sooner is its tissue cut by the scalpel ...
... died of pneumonia show this to be a condition of very frequent occurrence . The lung cannot be compressed by any moderate degree of force ; little or no air can be squeezed out of it ; but no sooner is its tissue cut by the scalpel ...
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... died . During the last eighteen years , from 1818 to 1835 , 4087 were vaccinated , 98 had variola , of whom 28 died . The difference between the year 1801 ( in which 10 were vaccinated , 30 had variola , and 15 died ) and the year 1835 ...
... died . During the last eighteen years , from 1818 to 1835 , 4087 were vaccinated , 98 had variola , of whom 28 died . The difference between the year 1801 ( in which 10 were vaccinated , 30 had variola , and 15 died ) and the year 1835 ...
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... died ; 69 were boys , of whom 9 died . No trial was made of tracheotomy . CHAPTER VIII . Report on the Epidemics of Cholera and Sweating Sickness ( Suette ) which prevailed at Champignol , Arconville , and Bergère , during the Summer ...
... died ; 69 were boys , of whom 9 died . No trial was made of tracheotomy . CHAPTER VIII . Report on the Epidemics of Cholera and Sweating Sickness ( Suette ) which prevailed at Champignol , Arconville , and Bergère , during the Summer ...
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... died of . Brayer said the spleen was ruined , Guenaut said it was the liver , Valot maintained it was the lungs , and that there was water on the chest , Desfougerais affirmed there was mesenteric disease . . . . There are four clever ...
... died of . Brayer said the spleen was ruined , Guenaut said it was the liver , Valot maintained it was the lungs , and that there was water on the chest , Desfougerais affirmed there was mesenteric disease . . . . There are four clever ...
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Page 264 - He makes extension backwards and downwards, while the assistant draws laterally. The dislocation is thus reduced with surprising facility, the agency of chloroform not being required. The advantage of this modification is that extension backwards may be far more easily executed than when the patient is in the supine position ; and this is the direction required in dislocation forwards, which prevails in the great majority of cases. For dislocation backwards, which is very rare, Cooper's procedure...