British and Foreign Medical Review: Or Quarterly Journal of Practical Medicine and Surgery, Volume 18

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1844 - Medicine
 

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Page 170 - Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears ; soft stillness, and the night, Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold. There's not the smallest orb, which thou behold'st, But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims ; Such harmony is in immortal souls ; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.
Page 226 - ... safe. But, as it did not yet come up entirely to the inventor's expectations, he proceeded to contrive a third lamp, in which he proposed to surround the oil vessel with a number of capillary tubes. Then it struck him that if he cut off the middle of the tubes, or made holes in metal plates, placed at a distance from each other equal to the length of the tubes, the air would get in better, and the effect in preventing the communication of explosion would be the same.
Page 368 - ... been followed by manifest effects as a soporific or hypnotic in conciliating sleep ; as an anodyne in lulling irritation ; as an antispasmodic in checking cough and cramp ; and as a nervine stimulant in removing languor and anxiety...
Page 448 - But observe him further : there is a spasm on his breast, he cannot breathe freely, the chest is elevated, the muscles of his neck and shoulders are in action...
Page 234 - ... all diversions not likely to amuse him highly, — from reading, writing, or even thinking on modern party politics, — and, above all, never permitting a bit or scrap of time to be unemployed, — have supplied him with an abundance of literary hours. His literary acquisitions are principally owing to the rigid observance of four rules : to direct his attention to one literary object only at a time ; to read the best book upon it, consulting others as little as possible; when the subject was...
Page 548 - I conceive right to add, that in all cases, even though the composition of the water seems to bring it within the conditions of safety now stated, an attentive examination should be made of the water after it has been running for a few days through the pipes. For it is not improbable that other circumstances, besides those hitherto ascertained, may regulate the preventive influence of the neutral salts.
Page 442 - BELL (Sir Charles). The Anatomy and Philosophy of Expression, as Connected with the Fine Arts.
Page 492 - Wales, with reference to the causes of disease among the inhabitants, and into the best means of promoting and securing the public health under the operation of the laws and regulations now in force...
Page 189 - sometimes in four, for the most part in five or six days, sometimes in nine, and commonly in a critical sweat : it was far from being mortal.
Page 234 - Very early rising, — a systematic division of his time, — abstinence from all company, and from all diversions not likely to amuse him highly, — from reading, writing, or even thinking on modern party politics, — and, above all, never permitting a bit or scrap of time to be unemployed, — have supplied him with an abundance of literary hours.

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