Medical Library and Historical Journal, Volume 1

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Page xxviii - Barton and Wells' Medical Thesaurus A THESAURUS OF MEDICAL WORDS AND PHRASES. By WILFRED M. BARTON, MD, Assistant to Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC ; and WALTER A.
Page 84 - ... importunate ; he growled and gave now and then a sharp impatient yelp ; he would have liked to have done something to that man. But James had him firm, and gave him a glower...
Page 8 - He was a person of great sagacity, and did wisely to get out of Rome ; for not many months afterwards, all the patients he had treated grew so ill that they were a hundred times worse off than before he came. He would certainly have been murdered if he had stopped.
Page 83 - ... eyes — eyes such as one sees only twice or thrice in a lifetime, full of suffering, full also of the overcoming of it: her eyebrows black and delicate, and her mouth firm, patient, and contented, which few mouths ever are. As I have said, I never saw a more beautiful countenance, or one more subdued to settled quiet. " Ailie," said James, "this is Maister John, the young doctor; Rab's freend, ye ken.
Page 84 - Behind her was James with Rab, James sat down in the distance, and took that huge and noble head between his knees. Rab looked perplexed and dangerous ; forever cocking his ear and dropping it as fast Ailie stepped up on a seat, and laid herself on the table, as her friend the surgeon told her ; arranged herself, gave a rapid look at James, shut her eyes, rested herself on me, and took my hand. The operation was at once begun ; it was necessarily slow ; and chloroform — one of God's best gifts...
Page xxviii - Atlas and Epitome of Operative Gynecology. By DR. O. SCHAFFER, of Heidelberg. Edited, with additions, by J. CLARENCE WEBSTER, MD (Edin.), FRCPE, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Rush Medical College, in affiliation with the University of Chicago. 42 colored lithographic plates, many text-cuts, a number in colors, and 138 pages of text. In Saunders
Page 44 - The officers of the Association shall be a President, a Vice-President, a Secretary and a Treasurer, and the same person may occupy the offices of Secretary and Treasurer.
Page 83 - I never saw a more unforgetable face, — pale, serious, lonely,* delicate, sweet, without being at all what we call fine. She looked sixty, and had on a mutch...
Page 84 - James had him firm, and gave him a glower from time to time and an intimation of a possible kick; — all the better for James, it kept his eye and his mind off Ailie. It is over: she is dressed, steps gently and decently down from the table, looks for James, then, turning to the surgeon and the students, she curtsies, — and in a low, clear voice, begs their pardon if she has behaved ill.

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