Medical and Philosophical Commentaries, Volume 4

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1776
 

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Pagina 267 - There was no chimney in them, nor any vent for the air, excepting through crevices at the door. In the firft room were placed three thermometers, one in the...
Pagina 309 - Here are no vain boastings of the empiric, nor ingenious and delusive theories of the dogmatist ; but a concise...
Pagina 196 - ... of the fingers were even fo much altered, that they were capable of being flit through longitudinally. All thefe originally bony parts...
Pagina 315 - Effex, a feventy gun fhip. moderately moderately warm, may be in the fpace of two days. The water is then poured off from the grounds, and boiled down to the confiftence of a jelly*. This...
Pagina 441 - A treatise on the management of pregnant and lying-in women and the means of curing, but more especially of preventing, the principal disorders to which they are liable.
Pagina 95 - ... taught anatomy with high reputation. Soon, however, the fame of his prelections, and the number of his pupils, excited the jealoufy of the public profeffors, and gave rife to invidious perfecutions.
Pagina 313 - Ruffians however make a (hi ft to prepare at fea, as well as at land, a liquor of a middle quality between wort and fmall-beer, in the following manner. They take ground malt and rye-meal in a certain proportion, which they knead into fmall loaves, and bake in the oven. Thefe they...
Pagina 268 - ... however, was little affected. He concluded this experiment by plunging in water heated to 100° ; and after being wiped dry, was carried home in a chair; but the circulation did not fubfide for two • hours. " Dr Blagden took off his coat...
Pagina 318 - ... to himself. First then, he put his people at three watches, instead of two, which last is the general practice at sea; that is, he divided the whole crew into three companies, and by putting each company upon the watch by turns, four hours at a time, every man had eight hours free, for four of duty: whereas at watch and watch, the half of the men being on duty at once, with returns of it every four hours, they can have but broken sleep, and when exposed to wet, they have not time to get dry before...
Pagina 195 - ... fome time after a complaint in his loins. He was at laft feized with a lientery, which put an end to a miferable exigence, on the i8th of February 1775, after a confinement to his bed of above fix years.

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