Letters upon some of the more common and important diseases of the head, throat and chest ... and their auxiliary treatment by medicated inhalation, and other methods of local medication ...

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Bacon & Company, Book and Job Printers, 1878
 

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Sivu 31 - The art of medicine is thus divided amongst them: each physician applies himself to one disease only, and not more. All places abound in physicians; some physicians are for the eyes, others for the head, others for the teeth, others for the parts about the belly, and others for internal disorders.
Sivu 36 - If good to expedite the departure of a cold I have no hesitation in affirming that it will be better still, as an expedient in altogether preventing the catarrh, eg, if when on a journey you experience a succession of chills, in due time you may expect an attack of bronchitis, an infiltration of pneumonic, or tubercular plasma, or illness in some other form, each tending to reduce the powers of life, and consequently liable to set up consumption in those predisposed.
Sivu 30 - ... Diseases of the Mind and Nervous System in the University of the City of New York ; President of the New York Neurological Society, etc. Reported, edited, and the Histories of the Cases prepared, with Notes, by TMB Cross, MD, Assistant to the Chair of Diseases of the Mind and Nervous System, in the University of the City of New York ; Member of the New York Neurological Society, etc.
Sivu 30 - ... better clergymen, better merchants, better farmers, " better laborers, better mechanics and artisans, better wives and mothers, and " husbands and fathers, better citizens, and better in every condition and rela"tion of society.
Sivu 30 - It is because the enemy have planted tares in the field, that we should enter in and sow the good seed. It is because the philistines have already invaded the land, that we should hasten to take possession. The noblest and best part of our mission is not to cure disease, but to prevent it. The true and only way to prevent disease is to diffuse through all ranks of society a general knowledge of the human body and of the laws of health.
Sivu 34 - ... do so with more delicate tests than those mentioned by Dr. Bennett, and such tests have not yet been made known. The author thinks, however, that medical science is not wanting. He blames the profession for its want of skill. " It is not that medical art is destitute of means of detection, but that the necessary skill is not sufficiently diffused amongst medical men.
Sivu 34 - be acknowledged among ourselves that comparatively few have sufficiently " educated their ears to detect the finer thoracic (chest) murmurs.
Sivu 42 - Catarrh let us devote a little attention to the structure and functions of the parts affected by it, in order that we may come to a better understanding of what is necessary to cure it.

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