College and Clinical Record, Volume 3

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Page 41 - A SYSTEM of SURGERY, Theoretical and Practical. In Treatises by Various Authors.
Page 287 - Your voiceless lips, O Flowers, are living preachers, Each cup a pulpit, and each leaf a book, Supplying to my fancy numerous teachers From loneliest nook. Floral Apostles ! that in dewy splendor " Weep without woe, and blush without a crime...
Page 36 - That all carcinomata of the breast, if there are no evidences of metastatic tumors, and if thorough removal is practicable, should be dealt with as early as possible by amputating the entire mamma...
Page 99 - The chief point in this application of histology to pathology is to obtain a recognition of the fact that the cell is really the ultimate morphological element in which there is any manifestation of life, and that we must not transfer the seat of real action to any point beyond the cell.
Page 97 - ... equilibrium between the forces which all parts of the aggregate are exposed to and the forces these parts oppose to them. Equilibration may pass through a transition stage of balanced motions (as in a planetary system) or of balanced functions (as in a living body) on the way to ultimate equilibrium ; but the state of rest in inorganic bodies, or death in organic bodies, is the necessary limit of the changes constituting evolution. 13. Dissolution is the counter - change which sooner or later...
Page 97 - This rhythm of evolution and dissolution, completing itself during short periods in small aggregates, and in the vast aggregates distributed through space completing itself in periods which are immeasurable by human thought, is, so far as we can see, universal and eternal : each alternating phase of the process predominating — now in this region of space, and now in that — as local conditions determine.
Page 96 - This has been effected chiefly through the natural selection of numerous successive, slight, favorable variations ; aided in an important manner by the inherited effects of the use and disuse of parts; and in an unimportant manner, that is, in relation to adaptive structures, whether past or present, by the direct action of external conditions, and by variations which seem to us in our ignorance to arise spontaneously.
Page 41 - A System of Surgery ; Theoretical and Practical. IN TREATISES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. AMERICAN EDITION, THOROUGHLY REVISED AND RE-EDITED by JOHN H.
Page 250 - ROBERTS BARTHOLOW, MA, MD, LLD. Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, etc.
Page 97 - And these two causes of increasing differentiations are furthered by — '"11. Segregation, which is a process tending ever to separate unlike units and to bring together like units — so serving continually to sharpen, or make definite, differentiations otherwise caused. " ' 12. Equilibration is the final result of these transformations which an evolving aggregate undergoes. The changes go on until there is reached an equilibrium between the forces which all parts of the aggregate are exposed to,...

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