Category: Health & Medicine

The Brooklyn Medical Journal. Vol. II. No. 2. Aug., 1888

MR. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN:—Some months ago, when sitting in the operating-chair of your Chairman of the Committee on Subjects, he asked me if I would not read a paper before the Brooklyn Dental Society. In the helpless condition in which I then was, with literally a gag in m...

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Few have more than the faintest conception of the minuteness of these organisms. Prof. Cohn, justifying himself for the unscientific method of comparison which he uses in class...

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Remember that the most gentle and considerate of people will say and do things when sick unwittingly, that in health they would sooner cut out their tongues or destroy a limb th...

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Dissection showed that there was a fissure of the spinal canal extending from the second lumbar vertebra down to the sacrum, the laminæ being absent. Both sciatic nerves were gi...

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“A gentleman, aged 63, came to consult me about an ulcer situated upon the left side of his tongue. On examination, I found an elongated, very ugly-looking ulcer, nearly as larg...

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In contrasting this operation with cholecystotomy, it may be said that the latter simply aims at removing the existing calculi, and makes no provision against the recurrence of...

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Breisky, of Vienna, has recently performed the first successful laparotomy for the removal of an ectopic viable fœtus in which all the fœtal appendages were at the same time rem...

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The paper concludes with a detailed statement of the _modus operandi_ and after-treatment in the modern Cæsarean operation. (A loop of the constrictor can usually be readily pas...

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MR. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN:—Some months ago, when sitting in the operating-chair of your Chairman of the Committee on Subjects, he asked me if I would not read a paper before t...

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_Therefore be it resolved_, That while paying this tribute to his memory we desire to express our high appreciation of his many virtues, and that while we deeply feel our loss,...

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1. Zymotic 434 2. Constitutional 251 3. Local 644 4. Developmental 121 5. Violence 63 Measles 6 Croup 8 Diphtheria 82 Scarlet Fever 45 Typhoid Fever ——— Whooping Cough 5 Malaria...