Medical Inquiries and Observations, Volume 4J. Conrad & Company, 1805 |
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afterwards appeared ascribed attended autumnal disease bilious fever bled bleeding blisters blood-letting blood-vessels body bowels calomel chiefly chronic Clear fine morning climate Cloudy cold common contagion contagious copious cordial medicines costiveness cure danger death depleting remedies died diet discharged dropsy dysentery effects emetics epidemic exciting causes excretions favour former formerly frequent Great-Britain hæmorrhage hydrocephalus induced inflammation inflammatory instances intermitting lancet late laudanum likewise malignant fever matters means measles medicine mentioned mercury miasmata mode month morbid action mortality nature neighbourhood New-York occurred ounces of blood pain patients Pennsylvania hospital persons pestilential Philadelphia physicians Physick plague pleurisy practice prevailed prevent produce pulse purges putrefaction putrid exhalations quantity of blood rain salivation says season ship sick sizy skin sometimes Southwark stomach summer and autumnal sweats symptoms tense pulse tion uterus vegetable vessels violent vomiting warm weather West-Indies yellow fever
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Pagina 149 - ... for the Lord thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee ; therefore shall thy camp be holy : that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.
Pagina 157 - The means of preventing them are as much under the power of human reason and industry as the means of preventing the evils of lightning and common fire. I am so satisfied of the truth of this opinion that I look for the time when our courts of law shall punish cities and villages for permitting any of the sources of malignant fevers to exist within their jurisdiction.
Pagina 294 - ... altogether. I was encouraged to cherish this hope, by having known delivery to take place, in one instance, during a paroxysm of epilepsy, and having heard of another, during a fit of drunkenness, in a woman attended by Dr. Church, in both of which there was neither consciousness, nor recollection of pain.
Pagina 271 - ... each person lost could not, of course, be known. The operation being over, he ordered them to lie in their tents ; and though he gave no kind of remedy after bleeding, yet of the numbers that were thus treated, not a single person died. I had this relation from Colonel Francis Windham, a gentleman of great honour and veracity, and at this time governor of the castle*.
Pagina 291 - By some divines, these symptoms, and particularly pain, have been considered as a standing and unchangeable punishment of the original disobedience of woman, and, by some physicians, as indispensably necessary to enable the uterus to relieve itself of its burden. By contemplating the numerous instances in which it has pleased God to bless the labors and ingenuity of man, in lessening or destroying the effects of the curse inflicted upon the earth, and by attending to the histories of the total exemption...
Pagina 157 - Pestilential fevers furnish no exception of this remark. The means of preventing them are as much under the power of human reason and industry as the means of preventing the evils of lightning and common fire. I am so satisfied of the truth of this opinion that I look for the time when our courts of law shall punish cities and villages for...
Pagina 294 - Repository,' vol. vi.), that a medicine would be discovered that should suspend sensibility altogether, and leave irritability, or the powers of motion, unimpaired, and thereby destroy labor-pains altogether. I was encouraged to cherish this hope, by having known delivery to take place, in one instance, during a paroxysm of epilepsy, and having heard of another, during a fit of drunkenness, in a woman attended by Dr.
Pagina 67 - On the 2 1st of the month, the ship Deborah arrived from one of the West India islands, and discharged her cargo in the city. She was moored afterwards at Kensington, where the foul air which was emitted from her hold produced several cases of yellow fever, near the shores of that village.12 The origin of this fever was from the exhalations of gutters, docks, cellars, common sewers, ponds of stagnating water, and from the foul air of the ship formerly mentioned.18 That was the kind of teaching concerning...
Pagina 273 - Blood-letting" in the Medical Observer and Inquirer, vol iv., page 353 : — Bleeding should be continued while the symptoms which first indicated it continue, should it be until four-fifths of the blood contained in the body are drawn away.