Excerpt from The Retrospect of Medicine, Vol. 74: Being a Half-Yearly Journal Containing a Retrospective View of Every Discovery and Practical Improvement in the Medical Sciences, July-December, 1876 Alcohol AS A food IN fever cases. I have convinced myself by a series of experiments that alcohol is completely destroyed in the animal organism. If pure it leaves no taint upon the breath, and where this is present it is attributable to some of the ethers or fusel oil. Thus, in the experiments referred to, I found only traces. Such being the case, it is evident that every molecule of alcohol burned within the system must yield, not only warmth, but that power to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Retrospect of Medicine, Vol. 47 Letter: for the Editors, to be addressed Dr. Wm. Braithwaite, Clarendon House, Clarendon Road, Leeds or, Dr. J mus Bunnwu'm, 1, Woodhouse Square. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Retrospect of Medicine, Vol. 29: Being a Half-Yearly Journal, Containing a Retrospective View of Every Discovery and Practical Improvement in the Medical Sciences; January-June, 1854 16 On the Treatment of Dropsy 17 Remarks on Chronic Inflammation 18 Case of Purpura Hemorrhagca treated by Turpentine Dr. G. Willis 19 On the Abortive Treatment of Small-pox by Zinc Plaster 20 On Small-pox and Vaccinia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Retrospect of Medicine, Vol. 76: Being a Half-Yearly Journal, Containing a Retrospective View of Every Discovery and Practical Improvement in the Medical Sciences; July-December, 1877 After the introduction into the animal economy of a poison or of a contagium a definite sequence of phenomena is noticed. Each has a definite and specific action; a certain time elapses after the reception of the substance into the system before morbid symptoms are developed; the severity of the symptoms varies with the dose of the substance introduced; the effects are modified by temperament or constitutional peculiarity on the part of the recipient; and after a time the substance is eliminated from the system. But, the existence of so many definite and distinct contagious diseases proves that the poisons which give rise to them are specifically distinct. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.