Treatise on Man

A Medieval Treatise on Man (de Homine).

profit thereby should be purged or have their blood let.' One must note the disjunctive particle. Hippocrates did not prescribe that both of these remedies should always be used, as is the practice with some who consider it a crime to let blood without a previous purge. There are some women for whom blood-letting alone is beneficial, when they are rather plump, others who will derive advantage ...

A Treatise on Plague

son, m it.c.s.i. London : Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Ld., 1901. Price 7s. Gd. It is somewhat remarkable that, though five years have now passed since the present pandemic of plague first made its appearance at Bombay, no book on the subject lias hitherto appeared based upon Indian experience. Reports written by medical officers, civilians, and even military officers we have had in abundance, but ...

Reflections on Maxwell’s Treatise

Over a period of about twenty years, Maxwell’s determination and unification of the equations of electricity and magnetism evolved from his first paper on the subject in 1855–56, “On Faraday’s Lines of Force,” to the publication of his Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism in 1873. Notwithstanding the many historical accounts and textbooks devoted to Maxwell’s work, I have not been able to find...

A Treatise on Mortgages

A Treatise on Treatment

I.M.s. (retd.). The writer says he has "elaborately followed those methods of treatment to which general consent or weighty testimony has given a standard place." The first chapter begins well with an account of fever, and the problems of immunity. The chapter on tubercle is full of information and is less a string of prescriptions than many others are. We note even here the love of new drugs w...