... Of the high position which our profession has attained in literature and in science, it is not my province here to speak, but if any shall talk slightingly as to the position medical men hold, let us tell such men ‘it is very true, that distinctive rewards ...

... ready, if called on to state ‘‘ the why and because.” Addressing the medical scholar on the duties which he owes to himself, I speak to old as well as to young, students and practitioners, for none are too old to learn. Remembering that “ knowledge is power ...

... termed the stage of “true inflammation.” TUp to the period at which the blood stagnates, there is no inflammation, strictly speaking; when, however, the blood stagnates, and that liquor sanguinis is effused, then the inflammatory process is complete—inflammation ...

... into the larynx, and speak loudly into it, we feel, on applying the hand on the surface of the lung, a strong vibration. This can scarcely be explained otherwise than by a conduction of the vibrations which arise, during speaking, in the walls of the ...

... heard over highly emphysematous tissue. But, on the other hand, as the tracheal and bronchial walls themselves vibrate during speaking, and really solid material, directly connecting a large bronchus with the surface of the chest, must conduct those vibrations ...

... the bronchial sounds. Of those who first came forward as opponents of his theory, for example Dr. Locher, I shall not here speak more particularly, partly because their objections are comparatively unimportant, and partly because Skoda himself has, it ...

... place during speaking in the air contained in the passages, and so strengthen the sound, that it can be heard externally on the chest. This explanation Skoda has endeavoured to illustrate by several experiments. Trials with hepatized or tuberculous lungs ...

... conditions, is a better or worse conductor of sound. We take a lung out of a body, place a stethoscope on its surface, and speak into it; with another stethoscope applied on the surface of the same lung, at different distances from the first, an assistant ...

... also the sounds developed in ordinary speaking during expiration be capable of being heard in the bronchi, and the velocity of the expired stream of air is far from being great enough to prevent this transmission. The vibrations thus produced in the air ...

... the aircells and minute bronchi are closed to a variable distance, and prevent its divergence. The tubes resemble so many speaking-trumpets, and, just as in these instruments, the augmentation of sound is produced by reflection from their quivering walls; ...

... intensity. If we consider the main difference in the physical conditions of the parts, when an individual himself speaks, or when another speaks into his trachea after his death, an obvious explanation of the experimental failures to imitate the broncho* ...

... the inflammation, and to be repeated according to the obstinacy of the disease. Mr. Mackenzie, in his excellent Treatise, speaking of the treatment of iritis in general, has the following remarks: * Bloodletting must in no case be neglected, and when the ...