The Transactions of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh, المجلد 1

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Laws of the Society with vol. 6, and occasional later volumes.
 

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الصفحة 77 - ... the impressions to and from the hemispheres of the brain are carried across the middle line ; so that in destruction or compression of either hemisphere, whatever effects are produced in loss of sensation or voluntary motion, are observed on the side of the body opposite to that on which the brain is injured.
الصفحة 105 - ... the sounds with which they are most familiar — thus, persons from the country, or rural districts, draw their similitudes from the objects and noises by which they have been surrounded, as the falling and rushing of water, the singing of birds...
الصفحة 124 - He picked up and appropriated everything belonging to others that he had a fancy for, and did this also most gracefully, as if it was the most natural thing in the world. He was irritable when controlled, contradicted, or refused requests, and he was always making innumerable and impossible requests.
الصفحة 128 - DD, who for the past twenty-six years has been subject to the most regularly recurring brain exaltation every four weeks almost to a day. It sometimes passes off without becoming acutely maniacal or even showing itself in outward acts; at other times it becomes so, and lasts for periods of from one to four weeks. It is always preceded by an uncomfortable feeling in the head and pain in the back, a mental hebetude and slight depression.
الصفحة 105 - ... and the various noises caused by steam-engines. Servants almost invariably add to their other complaints that they suffer from the ringing of bells...
الصفحة 10 - two classes of patients in which the abstention from mercury may be advisable : first, those who are in sound health and capable of throwing off the morbid influence without assistance; and, secondly, those in broken-down health, or in whom there is an evident strumous or consumptive tendency, which may render it desirable, if possible, to dispense with a mercurial course.
الصفحة 121 - We should not approach the study of the periodicity of symptoms in nervous and mental diseases without keeping in mind these laws and facts of the physiological periodicity of normal nerve function wherever we have a higher nervous system. Looking at the mental activities of human beings, we find them strongly influenced by the physiological periodicities. What man is there who is not emotionally more elevated or depressed, more active or inactive in mind, at certain times, or at his periods of almost...
الصفحة 9 - ... and neutralizing the deadly influence it has exerted on the vital forces. Such a substance has still to be found, and our present experience of the action of drugs does not lead to hopeful anticipation that we shall find it.
الصفحة 116 - Between the dura mater and the arachnoid membrane is a space of only a capillary lumen, containing a minute quantity of limpid serum, which moistens the smooth inner surface of the dura, and the corresponding smooth outer surface of the arachnoid. It is regarded as equivalent to the cavity of a serous membrane, and is named the arachnoid cavity, or, more appropriately, the sub-dural space.
الصفحة 115 - A doctor of extensive practice suffered from a crackling noise every night just after going to bed. He happened to mention his sufferings to one of his lady patients, •who told him of a case she knew where the noise was found due to maggots in the pillow.

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