Food and Throat Affections

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The Progress in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Affections of the Throat, Nose, and Ear during the past Twenty Years

I propose to put before you a few points in connection with the progress that has taken place in the diagnosis and treatment of disease of the throat, nose, and ear, in which I have been especially interested for the past twenty years. Before, however, proceeding to this my main subject, I may incidentally remark on the great increase in the facilities for studying these organs which has taken ...

Mental Affections

a subject. The volume is divided into three parts, the first deals with the broad questions of morbid heredity; the evolution of and the determining causes of insanity. Part II is physiological and pathological, and the third and longer part deals the clinical symptomatology of diseases of the mind. As regards the vexed question of the transmission of acquired characters, as it affects disease,...

The Pneumococcus and Pneumococcal Affections

In the first part the bacteriological aspect of pneumonia is thoroughly dealt with. The essential characters of the pneumococcus, the difficulties encountered in differentiating this organism from streptococci, and the relation between virulence and solubility in bile are clearly defined. The chapters on the types of pneumococci and the properties of anti-pneumococcal serum introduce a good dea...

Essays on Hypochondriacal and Other Nervous Affections

even by the sternest stoic, or the most subtle metaphysician, has attained universal assent, rather as an article of sensation than of science ; as being the compulsion of experience, more than the result of enquiry. Some men may call in question the liberty of the human will ; and others may weave a fine spun chain of arguments against the existence of matter and the reality of an external wor...