Wood's Medical and surgical monographs. v.10, 1891, Volume 10William Wood, 1891 |
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Page 391 - A very large number of congenital idiots are typical Mongols. So marked is this that, when placed side by side, it is difficult to believe that the specimens compared are not children of the same parents.
Page 266 - It shall be the duty of every local authority entrusted with the execution of laws relating to public health and local government to put in force from time to time as occasion may arise, the powers with which they are invested, so as to secure the proper sanitary condition of all premises within the area under the control of such authority.
Page 23 - The aim of this book is to give an account of the functions of the organs of sense as found in man and the higher animals.
Page 335 - In addition to the violent cannonading, which kept the women for some time in a constant state of alarm, the arsenal blew up with a terrific explosion, which few could hear with unshaken nerves. Out of 92 children born in that district within a few months...
Page 392 - The circulation is feeble, and however much advance is made intellectually in the summer, some amount of retrogression may be expected in the winter. Their mental and physical capabilities are, in fact, directly as the temperature. The improvement which training effects in them is greatly in excess of what would be predicated if one did not know the characteristics of the type. The life expectancy, however, is far below the average, and the tendency is to the tuberculosis which I believe to be the...
Page 392 - They are humorous, and a lively sense of the ridiculous often colours their mimicry. This faculty of imitation may be cultivated to a very great extent, and a practical direction given to the results obtained. They are usually able to speak; the speech is thick and indistinct, but may be improved very greatly by a well-directed scheme of tongue gymnastics. The co-ordinating faculty is abnormal, but not so defective that it cannot be greatly strengthened. By systematic training, considerable manipulative...
Page 463 - Some habitues acquiesce in all these requirements, but with the mental reservation of doing what they please. Such patients are often very misleading, and more than one physician has been led to believe that some particular remedy has been of the greatest service, when, in truth, the patient has only been pretending, in order to get through the farce of treatment as soon as possible. Strange as it may seem, it is none the less true that a morphia patient will often pretend that he has been cured,...
Page 696 - The retention thus occasioned by suspending the power of the bladder, has frequently been the first direct step towards establishing a permanent, if not a fatal, condition of atony or paralysis of this organ. 5. It is important that from time to time the reaction of the urine should be noted. When it becomes alkaline or offensive, the use of the catheter may be necessary.
Page 335 - ... and 2 came into the world with numerous fractures of the bones of the limbs, caused by the cannonading and explosion.
Page 213 - Hind in a recent interesting work on Labrador. Consumption appears to be all but unknown to the natives living wild in the fastnesses of this desolate region, in tents made of spruce branches imperfectly lined with skins, and more or less open on all sides to the external air ; although they are exposed to famine and every species of hardship. But when these same natives come down to the St.