The Study of Medicine, 第 5 卷

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Thomas and George Underwood, 1829
 

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第 21 頁 - Their colour is bay, marked more or less like the quagga in a darker tint. Both are distinguished by the dark line along the ridge of the back, the dark stripes across the fore-hand, and. the dark bars across the back part of the legs.
第 149 頁 - Willinghamense," or an account of a surprising boy who was buried at Willingham, near Cambridge, upon whom he wrote the following epitaph : " Stop, traveller, and wondering know, here buried lie the remains of Thomas, son of Thomas and Margaret Hall, who, not one year old, had the signs of manhood ; not three, was almost four feet high ; endued with uncommon strength, a just proportion of parts, and a stupendous voice ; before six he died, as it were, of an advanced age. He was born at this village,...
第 64 頁 - To preserve its life he descended to the office of a nurse, so degrading in the eyes of a Chipewyan, as partaking of the duties of a woman. He swaddled it in soft moss, fed it with broth made from the flesh of the deer, and, to still its cries, applied it to his breast, praying earnestly to the Great Master of Life to assist his endeavours. The force of the powerful passion...
第 21 頁 - Both their manes are black ; that of the filly is short, stiff, and stands upright, and Sir GORE OUSELEY'S stud groom alleged that it never was otherwise. That of the colt is long, but so stiff as to arch upwards, and to hang clear of the sides of the neck ; in which circumstance it resembles that of the hybrid.
第 149 頁 - The old man kept his vow in never taking a second wife himself, but he delighted in tending his son's children, and when his daughter-in-law used to interfere, saying, that it was not the occupation of a man, he was wont to reply, that he had promised to the great Master of Life, if his child was spared, never to be proud, like the other Indians.
第 169 頁 - ... returning action. The body, in its doubled state, being too large to pass through the pelvis, and the uterus, pressing upon its inferior extremities which are the only parts capable of being moved, they are forced gradually lower, making room as they are pressed down for the reception of some other part into the cavity of the uterus which they have evacuated, until the body, turning as it were upon its own axis, the breech of the child is expelled, as in an original presentation of that part...
第 301 頁 - ... doubt if any of the former [dietetic errors and the like] would produce it where there was no predisposition in the child's original constitution.. ..So far as I can refer the disease of the children to the state of the parents, it has appeared to me most commonly to arise from some weakness, and pretty frequently from a scrofulous habit, in the mother," (Cullen, First Lines, Part III.
第 64 頁 - A young Chipewyan had separated from the rest of his band for the purpose of trenching beaver when his wife, who was his sole companion and in her first pregnancy, was seized with the pains of labour. She died on the third day after she had given birth to a boy. The husband was inconsolable and vowed in his anguish never to take another woman to wife, but his grief was soon in some degree absorbed in anxiety for the fate of his infant son. To preserve its life he descended to the office of nurse,...
第 380 頁 - The following is the account upon a tombstone near Dartford, Kent. " Here lies the body of Ann Mumford, daughter of John Mumford, Esq., of Sutton Place, in this parish. Her death was occasioned by a dropsy, for which, in the space of three years and ten months she was tapped one hundred and fifty-five times. She died the 14th of May, 1778, in the twenty-third year of her age, an example of patience, fortitude, and resignation.

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