The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Or, Quarterly Journal of Practical Medicine and Surgery, Volumen19

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Samuel Highley, 1857
 

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Página 379 - Nelaton's guide, to detect any displacement of the femur at the hip joint, consists of a line drawn from the anterior superior spine of the ilium to the most prominent part of the tuberosity of the ischium.
Página iv - The Complete Handbook of Obstetric Surgery ; or, Short Rules of Practice in every Emergency, from the Simplest to the most formidable Operations connected with the Science of Obstetricy.
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Página 476 - ... and much more easily than most other poisonous substances. (6.) That, when isolated, strychnine can be distinguished by a special test, which is unerring and most delicate, and which will detect the merest trace. (7.) That the decomposition or natural decay of the animal frame may cause the destruction of the strychnine, but in this, TIME will no more easily blot out all traces of strychnine, than it will obliterate the mark of the knife of the assassin.
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Página 44 - That the internal inflammatory lesions are seldom limited in the same case to one organ or texture only, but two or more different viscera or surfaces are usually observed to have been either the simultaneous or successive seats of inflammatory action ; and the diflerent parts thus attacked are sometimes very distinct and distant from each other.

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