Medico-chirurgical Review and Journal of Medical Science, Volume 3S. Highley, 1824 - Medicine |
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Page 239 - has wholly in himself: and though it be not sense, as having nothing to do with external objects, yet it is very like it, and might, properly enough, be called internal sense. But, as I call the other Sensation, so I call this Reßection ; the ideas it affords being
Page 386 - and majestic scenery of Switzerland,— " What nothing earthly gives or can destroy, " The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy ;" resulting from the retrospect of a well-spent life here, and a confident anticipation of the joys of a world to come. X.
Page 686 - London, 1822. 22. An Introduction to the Study of Fossil Organic Remains, especially of those found in the British Strata : intended to aid the Student in his Inquiries respecting the Nature of Fossils, and their Connexion with the Formation of the Earth. By JAMES PARKINSON,
Page 238 - conversant about particular sensible objects, do convey into the mind several distinct perceptions of things, according to those various ways, wherein those objects do
Page 238 - from external objects convey into the mind what produces there those perceptions. This great source of most of the ideas we have depending wholly upon our
Page 302 - When the efforts of Nature have been uninterrupted during labour, the interval between the birth of the child and the expulsion of the placenta, rarely exceeds a quarter of an hour—and should this period be surpassed, it is still more prudent to wait the recurrent action of the uterus, than have recourse to manual interposition, unless some urgent reason
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Page 449 - discharged, cured. Case 5. A boy, nine years old, had, when at the age of five years, a strong epileptic fit. He had another less severe in three weeks ; this was followed, after short intervals, by others, differing in their degree of violence. For the last two years he has been in a state of
Page 631 - produced—as, for instance, when the fracture is through the head of the bone, and there is no separation of the fractured ends ; or, where the bone is broken without its periosteum and the reflected ligament which covers its neck being torn— or when it is broken obliquely, partly within, and partly external to, the capsular ligament.
Page 254 - embraced. If indeed we look back into the records of the past, we shall find that an absolute freedom in discussions involving religion, morals, and politics, never yet existed in any age or country. It is one of the dreams of modern philosophy. The superstition of the Lacedemonians prohibited all inquiry on the subject of