The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal: Exhibiting a Concise View of the Latest and Most Important Discoveries in Medicine, Surgery, and Pharmacy, Volume 741850 |
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Page 373 - ... inflated, respiration ensued, and the limbs began to assume a natural fulness ; but the pulsation was still faintly perceptible. The servant then. put some of the ghee on his tongue, and made him swallow it. A few minutes afterwards the eyeballs became dilated, and recovered their natural colour, when the Fakeer, recognising Eunjeet Singh sitting close to him, articulated, in a low, sepulchral tone, scarcely audible,
Page 373 - ... were furnished and relieved every two hours, night and day, to guard the building from intrusion. At the same time, he ordered one of the principal officers of his court to visit the place occasionally, and to report the result of his inspection to him, while he himself or his minister, kept the seal which closed the hole of the padlock, and the latter received the reports of the officers on guard morning and evening.
Page 373 - I his left leg, to aid by friction in restoring them to their proper action ; during which time the servant placed a hot wheaten cake, about an inch thick, on the top of the head, — a process which he twice or thrice renewed. He then pulled out of his nostrils and ears the wax and cotton...
Page 201 - Is the employment of Alcoholic Liquors necessary in the practice of Medicine? If so, in what diseases, or in what forms and stages of disease, is the use of them necessary or beneficial ? 1 . Each Essay must be accompanied by a sealed envelope, containing the real name and address of the author, and superscribed with a name or motto, similar to that attached to the Essay ; only the envelope of the successful Candidate to be opened by the adjudicators. 2. It is desired (but this is not an essential...
Page 418 - His person and the bed on which he was laid were literally one gore of blood. Assisted by my friend, Dr. Williams, of Proctorsville, who was first called to the patient, we proceeded to dress the wounds. From their appearance, the fragments of bone being uplifted and the brain protruding, it was evident that the fracture was occasioned by some force acting from below upward. The scalp was shaven, the coagula removed, together with three small triangular pieces of the cranium, and in searching to...
Page 373 - It was in a square building, called a barra durra, in the middle of one of the gardens, adjoining the palace at Lahore, with an open verandah all round, having an enclosed room in the centre. On arriving there, Runjeet Singh, who was attended on the occasion by the whole of his Court, dismounting from his elephant, asked me to join him in examining the building to satisfy himself that it was closed as he had left it. We did so ; there had been a door on each of the four sides of the room, three of...
Page 373 - Singh recognised the seal as the one which he had affixed, and as he was as sceptical as any European could be of the success of such an enterprise, — to guard as far as possible against any collusion, — he had placed two companies from his own personal escort near the building, from which four sentries were furnished and relieved every two hours, night and day, to guard the building from intrusion.