The Medical Times And Gazette Vol 2

Excerpt from The Medical Times and Gazette, 1866, Vol. 2: A Journal of Medical Science, Literature, Criticism, and News On June 16 Sir William Fergusson removed the portion of the bougie by the operation for lateral lithotomy it had become broken into three pieces, one fracture probably having been made during the operation. Its surface was in no way coated with any calcareous matter, a point to which Sir Wm. Ferguson called attention, as it would be thus the more rea y passed over in sounding, the characteristic ring of the staff upon it being absent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Medical Times and Gazette, Vol. 2 In consequence of this faith in facts he overlooks none; he passes by none. Now, a common error is to think some facts more important than others but all are important, and if one is left out, a whole heap may fall asunder. Now, Harvey omits nothing; he commences with the most obvious, and pro weds step by step; nothing is blurred; nothing is left 111 defined. His work was composed before the Novum Organon was published, but it has been well said by Willis that it might have been planned on the model of that system. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Medical Times and Gazette, Vol. 2: A Journal of Medical Science, Literature, Criticism, and News, for 1864 He mentions amongst the causes of follicular disease of the throat the officiating in large, cold, draughty churches, or per forming the Burial Service out of doors in cold weather, with the head uncovered. In the time of our wiser forefathers the priests used caps. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Medical Times and Gazette, Vol. 2: A Journal of Medical Science, Literature, Criticism, and News; For 1865 Of his publications, most are anonymous and published in the Quarterly, and we have not time to attempt an account of them but there are three which are well worth noting here, as showing his mental character most completely. One is his well-known Essay on Puerperal Fever, to which is added his introductory lecture at the opening of the session at King's College in 1836. No one who sees the most minute care with which every fact is adduced, the vast number of Opinions and authorities collated, the almost cramped and constrained style, as if from a nervous anxiety to state the arguments fairly, could think Ferguson the idle, haphazard, mere fashionable Doctor which, as he said, some of his con temporaries were pleased to call him, till this book showed him in his true light. It marked the era when blood poison ing, and other phrases of the humoral pathology were once more accepted by us, in place of the action of blood-vessel theory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.