The Medical World, Volume 12

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Roy Jackson., 1894

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Page 410 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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Page 268 - The importance attached to this drug, I think, is due to its anodyne and analgesic power, and the celerity with which it acts. As an antipyretic in fevers, it acts more slowly than antipyrin, but is not attended with as much depression of the cardiac system and cyanosis.
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Page 363 - Instead of the conical termination and minute foramen, which characterizes a perfected tooth, the aperture is nearly as large as the root itself, and thus when the sensitive pulp, composed of connective tissue, blood-vessels, and nerves, is in a condition of irritation because of the morbid activity of the process of dentition — augmented vascular and nervous action — there may be produced a hyperemia sufficient, possibly, to cause the protrusion of a part of the mass from the incomplete aperture...
Page 363 - ... thus giving rise to a true toothache, comparable only to that exquisite torture which is experienced in after life from an exposed and irritated pulp.
Page 227 - Cocaine given continuously from the beginning can completely abort the disease. 2. If given after the eruption has appeared, it will transform confluent or hemorrhagic forms into the discrete.

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