On the Treatment of Compound and Complicated Fractures

6/9/2016

of bone, when lost by accident, or removed by art, may be reproduced by the powers of nature …, and following paragraphs, are the more worthy of notice, as the preservation of limbs may prove the consequence … structures, discoverable by gently introducing the finger, may be set at liberty by knife or scissors …

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A Discourse on Quackery

6/9/2016

in the smallest degree; its course is onward; refinements in the science of imposition, if I may so speak, keep …, town or village, or through the wide expanse of thinly populated regions, his footsteps may be traced … to their health; upon this subject they are insane, and, however brilliant may be their talents, they become like …

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A Dissertation on Intemperance

6/9/2016

, and who have less natural stimuli to excite them. These statements may no doubt be met by many exceptions …. Now though this flame must at last go out, still its extinction may be hastened or protracted …, and consequently to the prolongation of life. It may be said that men of very different habits of life, of opposite …

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The Present Condition, Prospects and Duties of the Medical Profession

6/9/2016

; and may be regarded, at the same time, as the rich reward of philosophical investigation, and the prelude … by the intellectual character of the period with which it is associated. It may not be an unprofitable use … of comparative anatomy, the cherished offspring of modern science, may be regarded as another evidence of medical …

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The Production of Vital Force

6/9/2016

may know when and where his voyage shall end, so it may be well for us, before we assume the care … that we may compare the diseased state with it, and measure the extent of the error, and determine how … much change shall be required for the perfect restoration. This consideration may very properly …

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Irritable Uterus

6/9/2016

recently described. This fact of its comparative novelty may give to it some interest. But it has others …. Here again erroneous diagnosis has led to evil. This remark is supported by what may be found in books … paramount local derangement. This state of general feeble health may continue a long time, and at some …

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Self-Limited Diseases

6/9/2016

of men like these, and that the instructions, which may result from the noticeable event of their decease … to endeavor to show the existence of such a class, and to inquire how far certain individual diseases may … there is due a certain succession of processes, to be completed in a certain time; which time and processes may …

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The Production of Vital Force (pdf)

6/9/2016

at the Annual Meeting, May 30, 1849. Mr. President and Gentlemen, " They that be whole need …, to which he is to bring his ship back again, in order that he may know when and where his voyage … shall end, so it may be well for us, before we assume the care of the body in sickness, to ascertain …

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On Heat and Cold

6/9/2016

. Whatever definition philosophers may give of the word heat, it is quite sufficient for our purpose to say … the case with animated matter, for whatever may be the particular degree of heat of individual animals … the appearances; for nature delights in simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes. We may …

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A View of the Mercurial Practice in Febrile Diseases

6/9/2016

, consequently, the several theories founded upon them. It may, perhaps, be made to appear, that these medicines …, that they may furnish some portion of their constituent parts to the blood in the blood-vessels, which must … of the present train of actions is brought about, as a new disease may be said to be induced. Such disease, on Mr …

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