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Title: The Philadelphia monthly journal of medicine and surgery
Year: 1827 (1820s)
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Subjects: Medicine Surgery Medicine General Surgery
Publisher: Philadelphia : R.H. Small
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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ll theusual means had no influence; neither shame, nor the fear ofpunishment, nor the power of medicine, had any effect in reliev-ing him. At length be was cured by having a powerful im-pression made on his imagination. Hearing from some old seer,in whose wisdom he implicitly relied, that if he would catch amouse, roast and eat it, it would cure him, he complied with theprescription in every particular; and such was the power of theimagination, that from that moment the habit ceased, and neverafterwards returned. In No. 11 of Johnsons Journal is a notice of a memoir, by Mr. SamuelLair, in which most cases of incontinence of urine are referred to a want ofequilibrium in power between the body of the bladder and its neck, lierecommends, therefore, and practised with success, where other means hadfailed, the introduction, by a catheter, of tinct. of cantharides, so as to touchthe prostatic part of the urethra. Kd. Art. II.—Description of an Instrument for Extirpating Enlarg-ed Tonsils.
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The accompanying cut represents an instrument which has,for manj years past, been used with convenience and completesuccess by Dr. Smith, of New Haven, for the extirpation of en-larged tonsils. It consists of a ring of iron wire, from one side INSTRUMENT FOR EXTIRPATING ENLARGED TONSILS. 23 of which there projects a shaft, or handle, sufficiently long to reachthe tonsils, with a piece of wood attached transversely to its ex-tremity for the convenience of holding it; on one side the ring hasa groove all round it$ in the bottom of this groove it is perforatedin two places, one near the handle, the other opposite to this,and these perforations are obliquely outward from the centre ofthe ring. Another hole is made through the handle, close to thering, and parallel with it. A single, or a surgeons knot, being loosely formed with awaxed ligature, the loop of which is left so large that it maycorrespond to the ring, is laid into the groove; one end of thethread is carried through the hole ne

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