The Seaman's Medical Instructor In a Course of Lectures on Accidents and Diseases Incident to Seamen

If we consider the many benefits that navigation contributes to commerce in general, and how much the prosperity of nations are indebted to its source, we must without hesitatio...

The mechanism of the human body is so wonderfully, so curiously, and so wisely contrived, that the more we examine it, the more we must with admiration acknowledge, that nothing...

In the first place then, _smelling_ is that sensation which nature has given to every animal, that has a choice of food, as the first safe-guard to inform it of any thing agreea...

These bodies are full of cavities, which have all a communication with one another. The cavernous body of the _urethra_ continues from the _bulb_, near the neck of the bladder a...

4thly. In all dropsies, scurvies, lentors, consumptions, &c. for here instead of bleeding and lessening the power of the solids, the patient wants strengthening, and has no bloo...

This is an external application, for bruises and other inflammations, where discussion, or dispersion of humours is necessary, its chief benefit is in sprains, dislocations, and...

As these kind of wounds are liable of becoming ulcers, great care should be taken in the beginning to treat them properly.—Wounds in general should not be dress’d or look’d to t...

It is well known too, with what difficulty the fractured bones were set formerly, owing principally to the limb being stretched out in a position that excited all the muscles to...

A gangrene and mortification is only to be dreaded, when a whole limb is inflamed, such as an arm, a leg, &c. When the inflammation is dreadful, that the blood can find no passa...

To the first, I consider the gonorrhœa or clap, the phimosis, paraphimosis, chordee, priapism, shankers, dysuria, bubo, swelled testicles, and venereal excrescences, in their va...

_Unicum remedium est, nec opinantem in piscinam non ante ei provisam projicere, et, si natandi scientiam non habet, modo mersum bibere pati, modo attollere; si habet, interdum d...

The catarrhal fever, and all the other symptoms of cold, viz. cold in the head, cough, hoarseness, &c. generally keep one another company, leave the patient generally at one tim...

_Take a pipkin, or a tin sauce-pan, with a quart of water, a pint of vinegar, and two spoonfuls of honey; then take a funnel that will pretty well cover the vessel; then take a...

The patient loses his strength sensibly, so as not to be able to be supported by his own limbs. Over his body variously appear red, scarlet, yellow, green, livid and black spots...