The Medical World, Volume 16

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Roy Jackson., 1898

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Page 225 - And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays; Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten; Every clod feels a stir of might, •An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, groping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers...
Page 271 - The knowledge which a man can use is the only real knowledge, the only knowledge which has life and growth in it, and converts itself into practical power. The rest hangs like dust about the brain, or dries like raindrops off the stones.
Page 452 - AN AMERICAN TEXT-BOOK OF THE DISEASES OF CHILDREN. By American Teachers. Edited by Louis STARR, MD, assisted by THOMPSON S. WESTCOTT, MD In one handsome royal-8vo volume of 1190 pages, profusely illustrated with wood-cuts, half-tone and colored plates.
Page 360 - GYNECOLOGY. A Treatise on Diseases of Women, comprising the results of the latest investigations and treatment in this branch of medical science. By Charles H. Bushong, MD, Assistant Gynaecologist to the Demilt Dispensary, New York; formerly Attending . . Physician to the Northern Dispensary, New York.
Page 14 - O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us ! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, An...
Page 310 - Each essay must be typewritten, designated by a motto or device, and accompanied by a sealed envelope bearing the same motto or device and containing the name and address of the author. No envelope will be opened except that which accompanies the successful The Committee will return the unsuccessful essays if reclaimed by their respective writers or their agents within one year.
Page 361 - OUTLINES OF RURAL HYGIENE. For Physicians, Students and Sanitarians'. By Harvey B. Bashore, MD, Inspector for the State Board of Health of Pennsylvania. With an appendix on The Normal Distribution of Chlorine, by Prof.
Page 360 - AN EPITOME OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE. By Roswell Park, AM, MD, Professor of Surgery in the Medical Department of the University of Buffalo, etc.
Page 130 - NEAR the window by which I write, a great bull is tethered by a ring in his nose. Grazing round and round he has wound his rope about the stake until now he stands a close prisoner, tantalized by rich grass he cannot reach, unable even to toss his head to rid him of the flies that cluster on his shoulders. Now and again he struggles vainly, and then, after pitiful bellowings, relapses into silent misery.
Page 86 - AM, MD, of Philadelphia, in a recent article says that whenever there is unnecessary pain in labor he administers ten grains of antikamnia, repeated in two hours if necessary. In this way the pain which annoys the woman without helping her is relieved, while the uterine contractions become more firm and labor is accelerated. Dr. RB McCall, Hamersville, Ohio, contributes an article to the Woman's Medical Journal on this same subject.

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