Medical Times, Volume 16

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J. Angerstein Carfrae, 1847
 

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Page 58 - We all three felt his pulse first ; it was distinct, though small and thready ; and his heart had its usual beating. He composed himself on his back, and lay in a still posture some time ; while I held his right hand, Dr. Baynard laid his hand on his heart, and Mr. Skrine held a clean lookingglass to his mouth. I found his pulse sink gradually, till at last I could not feel any by the most exact and nice touch.
Page 156 - The position which I seek to establish in this essay is, that the various affections of matter which constitute the main objects of experimental physics — viz., heat, light, electricity, magnetism, chemical affinity, and motion, are all correlative, or have a reciprocal dependence. That neither, taken abstractedly, can be. said to be the essential or proximate cause of the others, but that either may, as a force, produce the others; thus heat may mediately or immediately produce electricity, electricity...
Page 157 - If we imagine the soul in an after stage of our existence, connected with a bodily organ of hearing so sensitive, as to vibrate with motions of the air, even of infinitesimal force, and if it be still within the precincts of its ancient abode, all the accumulated words pronounced from the creation of mankind, will fall at once on that ear.
Page 58 - He told us, he had sent for us, to give him some account of an odd sensation he had for some time observed and felt in himself; which was, that, composing himself, he could die or expire when he pleased, and yet by an effort, or somehow, he could come to life again; which he had sometimes tried before he sent for us.
Page 45 - a grain of musk has been kept freely exposed to the air of a room, of which the door and windows were constantly open, for a period of ten years ; during all which time the air, though constantly changed, was completely impregnated with the odour of musk ; and yet at the end of that time the particle was found not to have sensibly diminished in weight...
Page 58 - Skrine, his apothecary. We found his senses clear, and his mind calm : his nurse and several servants were about him. He told us he had sent for us to give him an account of an odd sensation he had for some time observed and felt in himself; which was...
Page 126 - ... off the soil, which was formerly a most foul nuisance, and a constant expense to the landlord. In the seven months ending March, 1843, I attended 41 new cases of sickness in that court; in the last four or five months I have had but two cases.
Page 100 - On Diseases of the Larynx." The author cites the facts related by Mr. Ryland, and observes that they prove conclusively that inflammation of the larynx, causing great swelling of the lips of the glottis, and infiltration of fluid in the submucous cellular tissue, and thus leading to speedy suffocation, occasionally results from the poison of erysipelas. He considers the following circumstances favour the opinion he has expressed as to the nature of the disease : — That the inflammation spreads...
Page 58 - ... but could not, by the nicest scrutiny, discover the least symptom of life in him. We reasoned a long time about this odd appearance as well as we could, and...
Page 58 - Skrine the least soil of breath on the bright mirror he held to his mouth ; then each of us, by turns, examined his arm, heart, and breath, but could not by the nicest scrutiny discover the least symptom of life in him.

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