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The symptoms which indicate danger are a tumid and hard abdomen,

Monday, December 31st, 2007

difficult breathing, offensive and profuse diarrhea, bloody urine,
delirium, or insensibility
The symptoms which indicate danger are a tumid and hard abdomen,
difficult breathing, offensive and profuse diarrhea, bloody urine,
delirium, or insensibility. Favorable symptoms are a natural and soft
state of the skin, eruptions on the surface, a natural expression of the
countenance, moist tongue, free action of the kidneys, […]

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M, Schutzenberger has failed to notice that the power of a

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

ferment is independent of the time during which it performs its
functions
M, Schutzenberger has failed to notice that the power of a
ferment is independent of the time during which it performs its
functions. We placed a trace of yeast in one litre of saccharine
wort; it propagated, and all the sugar was decomposed. Now,
whether the chemical action involved […]

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Excess of nutrition tends to plethora, to animal indulgence, and gross

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

sensuality
Excess of nutrition tends to plethora, to animal indulgence, and gross
sensuality. Not only do the propensities rouse desire, but they excite
the basilar faculties, and portray their wants in the outlines of the
face, mould the features to their expression, and flash their
significance from the eye. Who can mistake the picture of sensuality
represented by Fig. 87? It […]

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SYMPTOMS

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

SYMPTOMS. The attack usually resembles an ordinary catarrh of cold. In
some cases the nasal catarrh is absent, or very mild, and the infection
invades the general system, with much fever. A very striking
manifestation of the disease is the severe nervous troubles which are
present at the outset, consisting of headache, pain in the back and
legs, and a […]

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=Morphine Habit

Friday, December 28th, 2007

=Morphine Habit.=–Individuals who have acquired this habit take the
drug usually by hypodermic injection. The victim suffers from nausea and
vomiting, and becomes so mentally debilitated that asylum treatment is
required.

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2

Friday, December 28th, 2007

2. When the left ventricle ceases to act, to contract, to
pulsate, the pulse in the arteries also ceases; further, when
this ventricle contracts languidly, the pulse in the arteries is
scarcely perceptible. In like manner, the pulse in the right
ventricle failing, the pulse in the pulmonary artery ceases also.

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It must be remembered that, owing to the interdependence of all the

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

vital functions, there is no line of demarcation between the various
modes of death
It must be remembered that, owing to the interdependence of all the
vital functions, there is no line of demarcation between the various
modes of death. In all cases of sudden death think of angina pectoris
and the rupture of an aneurism.

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The stability of the planetary system depends upon the converted motion

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

of its parts
The stability of the planetary system depends upon the converted motion
of its parts. So in the human system, motion is a fundamental principle
which underlies every vital process. Health consists in normal,
functional activity. The human system is the arena of various kinds of
motions, both of fluids and of solids, and life and health depend […]

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5

Tuesday, December 25th, 2007

5. I take it for granted that if it can be shown that great
numbers of lives have been and are sacrificed to ignorance or
blindness on this point, no other error of which physicians or
nurses may be occasionally suspected will be alleged in
palliation of this; but that whenever and wherever they can be
shown to carry disease […]

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A representation of the heart and lungs

Tuesday, December 25th, 2007

A representation of the heart and lungs. 4. The
heart. 5. The pulmonary artery. 8. Aorta. 9, 11.
Upper lobes of the lungs. 10, 13. Lower lobes. 12.
Middle lobe of the right lung. 2. Superior vena
cava. 3. Inferior vena cava.]

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