Modern Medicine: Its Theory and Practice, in Original Contributions by American and Foreign Authors, כרך 2

כריכה קדמית
Sir William Osler, Thomas McCrae
Lea brothers & Company, 1907
 

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עמוד 255 - People send to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the smallpox. They make parties for this purpose, and when they are met (commonly fifteen or sixteen together), the old woman comes with a nutshell full of the matter of the best sort of smallpox and asks what veins you please to have opened.
עמוד 255 - The children or young patients play together all the rest of the day, and are in perfect health to the eighth. Then the fever begins to seize them, and they keep their beds two days, very seldom three. They have very rarely above twenty or thirty in their faces, which never mark ; and in eight days' time they are as well as before their illness.
עמוד 255 - ... you please to have opened. She immediately rips open that you offer to her with a large needle (which gives you no more pain than a common scratch) and puts into the vein as much venom as can lie upon the head of her needle...
עמוד 255 - Every year thousands undergo this operation; and the French ambassador says pleasantly, that they take the small-pox here by way of diversion, as they take the waters in other countries.
עמוד 255 - I am going to tell you a thing that I am sure will make you wish yourself here. The smallpox, so fatal and so general amongst us, is here entirely harmless by the invention of ingrafting, which is the term they give it. There is a set of old women who make it their business to perform the operation every autumn, in the month of September, when the great heat is abated. People send to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the smallpox...
עמוד 307 - But the liberty secured by the Constitution of the United States to every person within its jurisdiction does not import an absolute right in each person to be, at all times and in all circumstances, wholly freed from restraint. There are manifold restraints to which every person is necessarily subject for the common good.
עמוד 255 - The clamours raised against the practice, and of course against her, were beyond belief. The faculty all rose in arms to a man, foretelling failure, and the most disastrous consequences. The clergy descanted from their pulpits, on the impiety of thus seeking to take events out of the hands of Providence ; the common people were taught to hoot at her as an unnatural mother, who had risked the lives of her own children...
עמוד 255 - Pox here by way of diversion, as they take the waters in other countries. There is no example of any one that has died in it, and you may believe I am...
עמוד 323 - That streptococci occur with relatively greater frequency in the more severe and protracted cases of scarlet fever in which there also may develop local complications and clinical signs of general infection, such as joint inflammation, but even in the grave cases of this kind spontaneous recovery may take place, and, finally, 3.
עמוד 603 - One of the former is rolled up and soaked in a basin of water at 60° F., and wrung out so that it remains quite damp without dripping. The flannel is now spread out upon an even surface and the wet compress put upon it, so that there remains an edge of flannel about an inch wide all around. Both are rolled together half way.

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