A Manual of the practice of medicineBlanchard & Lea, 1856 - 607 pages |
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... increased by previously heating the body ; and , for a similar reason , it is greater when applied by drafts or currents of air , or by wet clothes , which rapidly carry off the heat of the body . Though , as Dr. Alison adds , " in the ...
... increased by previously heating the body ; and , for a similar reason , it is greater when applied by drafts or currents of air , or by wet clothes , which rapidly carry off the heat of the body . Though , as Dr. Alison adds , " in the ...
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... increased by an increase in the salts , and an increase in the quantity of the fibrine ; 3 , by the rapidity with which the red particles subside through the coagulating liquid , which may be increased by a diminution of the specific ...
... increased by an increase in the salts , and an increase in the quantity of the fibrine ; 3 , by the rapidity with which the red particles subside through the coagulating liquid , which may be increased by a diminution of the specific ...
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... increased tonicity , the continued contraction of the fibrine forming the buffy coat gives it the cupped appearance . An important practical inference may be drawn from the above statements , viz . , - that the buffy coat is not of ...
... increased tonicity , the continued contraction of the fibrine forming the buffy coat gives it the cupped appearance . An important practical inference may be drawn from the above statements , viz . , - that the buffy coat is not of ...
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... increased velocity ; at the same time that new vessels appear to be produced , most probably from those which before did not allow of the passage of the red corpuscles , or which admitted them in a quantity insufficient to render their ...
... increased velocity ; at the same time that new vessels appear to be produced , most probably from those which before did not allow of the passage of the red corpuscles , or which admitted them in a quantity insufficient to render their ...
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... increased action of the heart and large vessels , and may even excite such increased action , has been already explained , and it is evident that the effect must be to maintain , or even to aggravate congestion ; and it is under these ...
... increased action of the heart and large vessels , and may even excite such increased action , has been already explained , and it is evident that the effect must be to maintain , or even to aggravate congestion ; and it is under these ...
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