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  2. MEDICAL SCIENCE AND INTELLIGENCE. VEGETABLE GROWTHS IN THE HUMAN SKIN.

    It has been recently discovered that several diseases of the skin owe their peculiar character to the growth of fungi or cryptogamic plants in that texture. M. Gruby, of Vienna, describes a species of cryptogamia which occupies the roots ...

    Article : 133 words
  3. HYDROPHOBIA BY THE BITE OF A HEALTHY HORSE.

    A strong hostler, aged thirty, never bitten by a dog, but. three years ago a healthy horse to which he was giving: fodder, bit him on the left fore-arm, but the wound healed by itself without any perceptible scar. Now, after a ...

    Article : 193 words
  4. SINGULAR DISEASE.

    Rishta is an illness of which the symptoms are, that some parts of the body swell and fester; the patient often feels acute pains in the bones, and constant inward heat, a parched mouth, and continual thirst. Occasionally, we may even ...

    Article : 347 words
  5. PREVENTIVE TREATMENT OF THE DISEASE OCCASIONED BY TEH USE OF LEAD.

    There are more than forty trades which are injurious to the health of those who work at them, all having poisonous effects, which are not unfrequently fatal to life. The worst of all are those in which a chemical preparation of lead ...

    Article : 605 words
  6. DISEASES CONVEYED IN NEW CLOTHES.

    A public meeting was lately held in the Music Hall, Boldstreet, Liverpool, to inquire into the sanatory state of the operative tailors of Liverpool, when some extraordinary facts were disclosed, and which may fully account for the ...

    Article : 355 words
  7. DETECTION OF NEEDLES, &c., IN THE HUMAN BODY.

    When you suspect the presence of a piece of needle, or other steel instrument, you must subject the suspected part to a treatment calculated to render the needle magnetic; and there are two principal methods by which this object ...

    Article : 213 words
  8. SNUFF-TAKING.

    At a meeting of the Medical Society of London, Mr Pilcher mentioned the case of a medical student, an immoderate snuff-taker, who presented all the symptoms of phthisis, which disappeared on his leaving off the use of ...

    Article : 75 words
  9. THE NEW MEDICAL ACT.

    By Mr Wakley's new Act, which is expressly to extend to the whole British Empire, all prescriptions are to be written both in the English and Latin languages, so that the most learned and most ignorant apothecary's assistant may ...

    Article : 115 words
  10. DISINFECTION.

    The Journal des Debats publishes a letter from Alexandria, which states that "a commission sent to Egypt by the Russian government in 1843, to study the importunt question of the possibility of disinfecting by the effect of heat ...

    Article : 253 words
  11. DETERMINED ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE, AND WONDERFUL EFFECTS OF ELECTRICITY.

    In June last a most determined and premeditated attempt at self-destruction was committed in Nottingham, and connected with it are circumstances which cannot fail to have a most signal and decided sensation among the medical ...

    Article : 708 words
  12. EXCESSIVE TEA DRINKING.

    We knew a man who, whilst preparing for a prize examination, restricted himself to an exclusively vegetable diet, and in place of a little wine which he had been accustomed to take after dinner and supper, he drank largely ...

    Article : 345 words
  13. REPRODUCTION OF AMPUTATED PARTS IN THE LOWER ANIMALS.

    At a late meeting of the Penzance Natural History Society, a paper on the above subject Was read by Mr R. W. Cough. In the course of the essay the following facts were mentioned: they are both curious and instructive, ...

    Article : 640 words
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