Author: N. S. Davis Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780484818254 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 768
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Excerpt from The Chicago Medical Examiner, 1862, Vol. 3: A Monthly Journal, Devoted to the Educational, Scientific and Practical Interests of the Medical Profession The middle coat is made up from the stroma of the ovary. Its strength depends upon quite a considerable amount of fibres which enter into its composition. As the tumor de velops, these fibres are enlarged, and apparently it not really, increase in numbers, until they constitute the most Of the thickness of the walls, and in some parts, make quite a thick ness, density and toughness of tissue. These qualities are greater in old large sacs than in the smaller and younger ones. At the pedicle and for some distance up the sides, they are greater than in other portions, being in these parts sometimes a quarter of an inch thick, while at the fundus or distal por tion, they may be thin and fragile. The whole of this coat. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Andrew McIlwaine Bell Publisher: LSU Press ISBN: 0807146633 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 288
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Of the 620,000 soldiers who perished during the American Civil War, the overwhelming majority died not from gunshot wounds or saber cuts, but from disease. And of the various maladies that plagued both armies, few were more pervasive than malaria -- a mosquito-borne illness that afflicted over 1.1 million soldiers serving in the Union army alone. Yellow fever, another disease transmitted by mosquitos, struck fear into the hearts of military planners who knew that "yellow jack" could wipe out an entire army in a matter of weeks. In this ground-breaking medical history, Andrew McIlwaine Bell explores the impact of these two terrifying mosquito-borne maladies on the major political and military events of the 1860s, revealing how deadly microorganisms carried by a tiny insect helped shape the course of the Civil War. Soldiers on both sides frequently complained about the annoying pests that fed on their blood, buzzed in their ears, invaded their tents, and generally contributed to the misery of army life. Little did they suspect that the South's large mosquito population operated as a sort of mercenary force, a third army, one that could work for or against either side depending on the circumstances. Malaria and yellow fever not only sickened thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers but also affected the timing and success of certain key military operations. Some commanders took seriously the threat posed by the southern disease environment and planned accordingly; others reacted only after large numbers of their men had already fallen ill. African American soldiers were ordered into areas deemed unhealthy for whites, and Confederate quartermasters watched helplessly as yellow fever plagued important port cities, disrupting critical supply chains and creating public panics. Bell also chronicles the effects of disease on the civilian population, describing how shortages of malarial medicine helped erode traditional gender roles by turning genteel southern women into smugglers. Southern urbanites learned the value of sanitation during the Union occupation only to endure the horror of new yellow fever outbreaks once it ended, and federal soldiers reintroduced malaria into non-immune northern areas after the war. Throughout his lively narrative, Bell reinterprets familiar Civil War battles and events from an epidemiological standpoint, providing a fascinating medical perspective on the war. By focusing on two specific diseases rather than a broad array of Civil War medical topics, Bell offers a clear understanding of how environmental factors serve as agents of change in history. Indeed, with Mosquito Soldiers, he proves that the course of the Civil War would have been far different had mosquito-borne illness not been part of the South's landscape in the 1860s.
Author: N. S. Davis Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780484685764 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 738
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Excerpt from The Chicago Medical Examiner, 1866, Vol. 7: A Monthly Journal, Devoted to the Educational, Scientific and Practical Interests of the Medical Profession There are three varieties of this class of advertisements, two of which are found in the columns of newspapers, and the other, in the form of handbills and pamphlets, is pasted along the streets, thrown into public conveyances, and left upon the doorsteps of private dwellings. They all possess, in a greater or less degree, three qualities, namely, false pretensions, obscen ity, and either direct or indirect encouragement to vice and crime. The false pretensions consist in, first, the most abominable lying in regard to the previous education, experience, and cm cial positions of the pretended doctors, for curing private dis eases; and, econd, the positive and unqualified promise to cure permanently and Speedily, all the chronic and private diseases of the two sexes. Whoever opens a newspaper, and glances at these advertisements, and then remembers that not. One of these advertising pretenders has any actual medical education, or has ever studied medicine proper in their lives, and that they are not recognized as belonging to the medical profession by any respectable physician in the country, will have some idea of their impudently fraudulent character. And yet who can estimate the number of victims, of both sexes, who are annually caught, and their pockets emptied by these very pretensions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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