The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Or, Quarterly Journal of Practical Medicine and Surgery, Volumen10

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Samuel Highley, 1852
 

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Página 520 - ... intended. The result of this inquiry is, that if a pair of very dissimilar pictures is seen when the optic axes are nearly parallel, the distances between the near and remote points of the object appear exaggerated; and if, on the other hand, a pair of pictures slightly dissimilar is seen when the optic axes converge very much, the appearance is that of a bas-relief. As no disagreeable or obviously incongruous effect is produced when two pictures, intended for a nearer convergence of the optic...
Página 499 - Force constitute the connecting link between the two ; and it is difficult to see that the dynamical agency which we term Will is more removed from Nerve-force, on the one hand, than Nerve-force is removed from Motor force on the other. Each, in giving origin to the next, is itself expended, or ceases to exist as such; and each bears, in its own intensity, a precise relation to that of its antecedent and its consequent.
Página 520 - It consists of two reflecting prisms, placed in a frame, with adjustments, so that, when applied to the eyes, each eye may separately see the reflected image of the projection which usually falls on that eye. This is not the case when the...
Página 71 - It has remained for an American writer to wipe away this reproach; and so completely has the task been fulfilled, that we venture to predict for Dr. Gross's treatise a place in the literature of surgery, worthy to rank with the best works of the present age.
Página 520 - The pseudoscope being directed to an object, and adjusted so that the object shall appear of its proper size and at its usual distance, the distances of all other objects are inverted ; all nearer objects appear more distant, and all more distant objects nearer. The conversion of relief of an object consists in the transposition of the distances of the points which compose it. With the pseudoscope we have a glance, as it were, into another visible world, in which external objects and our internal...
Página ii - By JOHN HUGHES BENNETT, MD, FRSE, Professor of the Institutes of Medicine, and of Clinical Medicine, in the University of Edinburgh, An Introduction to Clinical Medicine.
Página 201 - Sartorious muscle. The external and internal iliac veins were full and distended. The azygos, both axillary and jugular, veins, were full, also the longitudinal, the lateral, and other sinuses at the base of the cranium and veins ramifying on the surface of the brain. In this last situation some of the veins appeared as if full of pus, whilst others were gorged with a dark coagulum. In the aorta and external arteries were a few small clots resembling those found in the veins. These vessels, however,...
Página 495 - I find the origin of all religions, all philosophies, all opinions, all virtues, and ' spiritual conditions and influences,' in the same manner that I find the origin of all diseases and of all insanities in material conditions and causes." " I am what I am : a creature of necessity; I claim neither merit nor demerit.
Página 496 - I am what I am ; a creature of necessity ; I claim neither merit nor demerit." " I feel that I am as completely the result of my nature, and impelled to do what I do, as the needle to point to the north, or the puppet to move according as the string is pulled." "I cannot alter my will, or be other than what I am, and cannot deserve either reward or punishment.
Página 180 - ... operation. I remember being very much struck with an observation of Desault's ; I have not his works beside me at present, but it is to this effect : — " Think well of that hernia which has been little handled and soon operated on." The operation is justifiable and necessary, when the patient has been brought fully under the influence of chloroform, and the taxis has been fairly, fully, and skilfully tried without producing the desired effect. The conviction being thus produced, that by no...

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