Researches Into the Causes, Nature, and Treatment of the More Prevalent Diseases of India: And of Warm Climates Generally

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Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1841 - 606 pagine
 

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Pagina 493 - dark-coloured blood, which has been transmitted through the circulating system, during the suspension of respiration would seem to act like a narcotic poison upon the brain. No sooner does it enter that organ, than deleterious effects are immediately produced, the animal falls into a state of stupor, the pupils of the
Pagina 288 - two to three drachms of the Solution should be added to a pint of warm water, and the trunk of the body, insides of the thighs, &c., assiduously sponged with it, by means of a large sponge, for about a quarter of an hour daily, or, occasionally, night and morning.
Pagina 494 - and powerful mobile nature seems to pervade every thing, and appears to be the life of the world; and, therefore, it is probable a similar substance pervades organised bodies, and is the life of those bodies.
Pagina 298 - from the exhibition of conium and blue-pill, in the proportion of about two parts of the former to one of the latter; and when the purulent collection has found its way into the lungs,
Pagina 17 - but acetic acid cannot easily be obtained in sufficient quantity, and in a state of sufficient concentration to be employed with advantage. Nitric acid may be attended with some inconvenience, because it is almost always contaminated with nitrous gas.
Pagina 193 - The earliest symptoms of which the patient generally complains, when he attends to his sensations and state of health, are, clamminess and foulness of the mouth, fauces, and tongue, with a bitter taste, particularly in the morning; a sense of distension and weight at the epigastric region and at the
Pagina 544 - This occurrence is most frequently observed to take place in the more marshy and unwholesome situations near the mouths and banks of rivers, and in thickly wooded districts, where the exhalations are most noxious. It is also favoured by the rainy and cold seasons, when these exhalations generally are most
Pagina 243 - various influences which more directly occasion the supervention of inflammatory action in the liver, there are few more energetic than the immoderate addiction to the use of spirituous liquors; and the intoxicating drinks which may be so readily obtained by the European soldier in every part of India;
Pagina 17 - supposed that a certain noxious matter is dissolved by the air, and that it is the action of this matter which produces the mischief. This noxious matter is in many cases readily distinguished by the
Pagina 245 - that we are led, in many instances, to infer the existence of disease of the liver. The loss of flesh, the dyspeptic symptoms, particularly the slow and painful digestion, accompanied with acid and acrid eructations, flatulency, nausea, and sometimes vomiting, torpid state of the bowels, or

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