Identifier: medicalsurgical101863phil (find matches)
Title: The Medical and surgical reporter
Year: 1858 (1850s)
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Subjects: Medicine Surgery
Publisher: (Philadelphia, Pa. : Crissy & Markley, Printers)

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n this way great injury is inflictedupon the reputation of the profession, as well asthose who are afflicted with disease. If there is one man in society who should be at-tentive, cautious and careful, that man is the phy-sician. To a certain extent the health and life ofthe community are in his hands. One mis-step onhis part may break the golden cord on which issuspended the earthly existence of a fellow being.It is a fe^-rful reflection that he deals in deadly in-struments, and that when he wield.^ them without proper care and discrimination he may kill hisfriends as well as his foes. A careless physicianis a dangerous man in the comnyinity. I wouldrather live near a volcano than such a doctor. Heshould not be tolerated in the ranks of the regularprofession. Turn him over to Homoeopathy, sothat if he will continue to prescribe for the sickwithout forming a correct diagnosis of their dis-orders, he may give them medicine in such infini-tesimal doses that it will not do them any harm.
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DEFECTIVE AND IMPAIRED VISION.With the Clinical use of the Ophthalmoscope in* their Diagnosis and Treatment. By Laurence Turnbull, M. D., Ophthalmic Surgeon to Howard Hospital, &c. The Ophthalmoscope—Directions as to its Em-ployment. (Continued from p. 307.)Before*commencing with directions for its man-agement, I ought to mention that the ophthalmo-scope, when employed alone, gives the uprightpicture of the interior of the eye, but when we usethe lens we see an inverted picture, so thatwhat appears to be placed upward or inward, isin reality situated downward and outward, andvice versa, the great advantage derived from theuse of the double convex lens is that by it we ob-tain a larger picture ; but should we desire toreduce it we then can use a double concave lens.The simple mirror of Anagnostakis, used in com-bination with a convex glass in the manner I amabout to describe, certainly allows of our seeing intheir real position parts which do not fall withinthe focus of the patie

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