Transactions of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland: Vol. I-XXXVI and XXXVII. ...

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Page 377 - ... were persons engaged in the sale of articles liable to adulteration. The evidence of the chemists showed that the Act of 1872 had been productive of good, whilst the testimony of the dealers was chiefly to the effect that it had inflicted injury upon many honest traders, chiefly from want of a proper understanding as to what does and what does not constitute adulteration, and also from the inexperience of the majority of the analysts. The Committee recommended certain changes in the Act, some...
Page 411 - On the receipt of any information respecting the existence of a nuisance the local authority shall, if satisfied of the existence of a nuisance, serve a notice on the person by whose act, default, or sufferance the nuisance arises or continues...
Page 86 - Severe pain in the lower part of the left side of the chest, apparently seated in the intercostal muscles,"1.
Page 91 - ... he was seized with severe pain in the right side of the chest, the breathing became more rapid, and, according to his friends, he was occasionally delirious.
Page 112 - With one finger in the rectum and the other in the vagina, it was easily determined that there was no abnormal adhesion between the two canals.
Page 287 - Tome explains the formation of Cysts in connection with retained teeth, he referring to the fact that when the development of the enamel of the tooth is completed, its outer surface becomes perfectly detached from the investing soft tissue and a small quantity of transparent fluid, not uncommonly collects In the interval so formed.
Page 408 - Act. (4) Every medical practitioner attending on or called in to visit such inmate shall on becoming aware that such inmate is suffering from any such disease as aforesaid forthwith fill up sign and send...
Page 411 - Where any local authority are of opinion, on the certificate of their medical officer of health or of any other legally qualified medical practitioner, that the cleansing and disinfecting of any house or part thereof, and of any articles therein likely to retain infection, would tend to prevent or check infectious disease, it shall be the duty of such authority to give notice in writing to the owner or occupier of such house or part thereof requiring him to cleanse and disinfect such house or part...
Page 117 - ... remedying this condition should readily be grasped at by both surgeon and patient. We must, however, consider the question from more than one point of view : first, as to the immediate risk to life ; second, as to the probability of complete cure, and, if so, the condition in which the patient will be left ; and, lastly, supposing recurrence to take place, how long will it be delayed, and what will be the course of the secondary disease. I am convinced that a careful and unbiassed consideration...
Page 408 - ... certificate or declaration stating according to the forms prescribed and supplied to him by the Corporation the name of such inmate the situation of such building and the name of such occupier or person and the nature of the disease from which such inmate is suffering.

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