Internal Medicine Books

On criminal abortion in America

Horatio R. Storer

We further, in the present investigation, set aside all cases where abortion is the result of accident, or from natural causes, or justified by the rules of medicine, whether to save the mother or her..

Owen's Moral Physiology

Ralph Dale Owen

Reproduction or accumulation of identities similar to self is a common law of animal and vegetable matter; and the disposition to reproduce in all well-formed and healthy subjects is as powerful as hu..

Observations on the Oleum Jecoris Aselli, or Cod-liver

John Savory

The introduction of a new therapeutical agent into general practice cannot fail to interest the medical profession and the public, and, profiting by the experience attained in a consideration of the m..

Observations on Abortion

John Burns

By abortion is generally understood the expulsion of the contents of the gravid uterus, at a period of gestation so early as to render it impossible for the fœtus to live. It is an accident or disease..

Senescence, the Last Half of Life

G. Stanley Hall

Our life, bounded by birth and death, has five chief stages, each of which, while it may be divided into substages, also passes into the next so gradually that we cannot date, save roughly and approxi..

Polio - Infantile Paralysis

Anonymous

It is a contagious disease in which the gray matter of the spinal cord is attacked, producing destruction of certain cells and causing paralysis. The disease is caused by a virus—tiny “bugs” smaller t..

Pneumonia - Its Care and Prevention

Anonymous

Pneumonia appears to be spread from person to person by contact, so it is regarded as a communicable disease. As it is contagious, the spread of infection can be stopped if precautions are taken to pr..

Treatment of Cholera in the Royal Hospital, Haslar

John Wilson

On admission the patient was immediately placed in a hot bath, from 104° to 112° of Fahrenheit, in relation to the reduction of circulatory power, and of superficial heat; diligent friction of the abd..