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Page 164 - As nitrous oxide in its extensive operation appears capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably be used with advantage during surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place...
Page 84 - The several incorporated bodies thus addressed shall also be requested by the President to submit the Pharmacopoeia to a careful revision, and to transmit the result of their labors, through their delegates, or through any other channel, to the next convention.
Page 161 - word in English written inside a book or folded sheet of paper,' who answered any question ' which the superior intelligence must ' be able to answer,' ' who tilted a piano without touching it, or 'caused a chair to move a foot;' and having failed to exhibit to the Committee any phenomenon which, under the widest latitude of interpretation, could be regarded as equivalent to either of these proposed tests, or any phenomenon which required for its production, or in any manner indicated a force which...
Page 161 - ... latitude of interpretation, could be regarded as equivalent to either of these proposed tests, or any phenomenon which required for its production, or in any manner indicated a force which could technically be denominated spiritual, or which was hitherto unknown to science, or a phenomenon of which the cause was not palpable to the committee, is, therefore, not entitled to claim from the ' Boston Courier ' the proposed premium of five hundred dollars. "It is the opinion of the committee, derived...
Page 88 - Resolved, That we recommend to all the medical colleges entitled to a representation in this body that they appoint delegates, especially instructed to •represent them in a meeting to be held at Louisville on Monday, the day immediately preceding the convention of the American Medical Association, for the year 1859, at ten o'clock, at such place as the committee of arrangements shall designate.
Page 84 - Convention for the same purpose, in the year 1860, by the following resolutions : — " 1. The President of this Convention shall, on the first day of May, 1859, issue a notice requesting the several incorporated State Medical Societies, the incorporated Medical Colleges, the incorporated Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons, and the incorporated Colleges of Pharmacy, throughout the United States...
Page 170 - The effect of these salts upon the tubercular diathesis is immediate, all the general symptoms of the disease disappearing with a rapidity which is really marvellous. If the pathological deposit produced by the dyscrasy is of recent formation, if softening has only just set in and does not proceed too rapidly, the tubercles are absorbed and disappear. When the deposit has existed for a certain time, when the softening has attained a certain degree, it sometimes continues in spite of the treatment...
Page 89 - Dr. WINSTON, of Tennessee, read the names of additional delegates to the Association. Dr. HOOKER, from the Committee on Medical Topography and Epidemics for the State of Connecticut, being called on for his report, arose and explained that it was his understanding that the Committee were to have three years in which to make their report, and at the end of that time he would either be prepared or ask the indulgence of the Association for further time. The President, under a resolution passed at the...
Page 161 - The Committee award that Dr. Gardner, having failed to produce before them an agent or medium who 'communicated a ' word imparted to the spirits in an adjoining room,' ' who read a ' word in English written inside a book or folded sheet of paper,' who answered any question ' which the superior intelligence must
Page 23 - That although eggs were used in these small experiments, on account of their convenience, bullock's blood, if to be had, is equally good ; and the milk of lime alone will answer the purpose ; in the latter case, however, more constant and prolonged skimming will be required to produce a perfect clarification, which is highly important.