Xenograft and Partial Affections

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...

Essays on Hypochondriasis, and Other Nervous Affections

timents, and shews that the zeal of improvement may sometimes, even in the best concerns, be carried beyond the bounds of discretion, and that regulations and institutions, which we may think evil or unnecessary, may be both salutary and advisable. " The observance of fasts is a wholesome form of superstition. The omission of them in the Protestant calender, was, perhaps, as it relates to healt...

Congenital Affections of the Heart