ROYAL MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY. Tuesday, February 12th, 1839.

The Treatment of Chronic Constipation: A Discussion at the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society, February 12th, 1913

The contents of the small intestine are fluid in character, travel rapidly through the 22 feet of its length, and begin to issue through the ileo-csecal valve within four to five hours of a meal. They travel through the large intestine far more slowly, reaching the hepatic flexure in six and a half hours, the splenic flexure in nine hours, and the pelvic colon in about eighteen hours?in a semi-...

Acute Intestinal Obstruction *An address given to the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society, February 12th, 1930.

Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society

thyrotomy was the only means of eradicating the growth. This operation he accordingly performed, removing the warts and cauterising the sites of growth afterwards. The operation was quite successful, except that a web formed which unites the anterior third of the edges of the vocal cords, occupying the former site of the growths. The respiration is good, but the voice is very weak, though not q...

Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society

and the neighbourhood who neither belonged to the Society nor subscribed to the Journal, and he felt that more could be done by individual help than by the usual method of sending out reply post-cards. The Honorary Librarian (Mr. L. M. Griffiths) read his Annual Report (see page 369). With the exception of the words from "as it would" to "its guardian," in the last paragraph but two in the Hono...

Medical Worthies of the West Country *Presidential address to Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society, 12th October 1955.