{"title":"On the Spikenard of the Ancients","authors":"W. Jones, Lord Teignmouth","doi":"10.1017/CBO9781139506946.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139506946.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":92102,"journal":{"name":"Medical facts and observations","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/CBO9781139506946.002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57116426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"X. An account of the remarkable effects of a shipwreck on the mariners; with experiments and observations on the influence of immersion in fresh and salt water, hot and cold, on the powers of the living body","authors":"J. Currie","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1792.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1792.0014","url":null,"abstract":"The following narrative is submitted to the Royal Society, as containing in itself some curious circumstances, and as having suggested the experiments afterwards to be recited. On the 13th of December, 1790, an American ship was cast away on a sand-bank that lies in the opening of the river Mersey into the Irish Channel. The crew got on a part of the wreck, where they passed the night; and a signal which they made being discovered next day from Hillberry Island, a boat went off, though at a great risk, and took up the survivors. The unfortunate men had remained twenty-three hours on the wreck; and of fourteen, the original number, eleven were still alive, all of whom in the end recovered. Of the three that perished, one was the master of the vessel; another was a passenger who had been a master, but had lost or sold his ship in America; the third was the cook. The bodies of these unfortunate persons were also brought off by the men from Hillberry Island, and were afterwards interred in Saint Nicholas church-yard, amidst a great crowd of spectators. The cook, who was a weakly man, died a few hours before the boat reached the wreck, but the two masters had been long dead, and this added to the sympathy for their loss, a curiosity to inquire into its circumstances and causes. When the following particulars came to be known, this curiosity was increased. Both the masters were strong and healthy men, and one of them a native of Scotland, in the flower of life, early inured to cold and hardships, and very vigorous both in body and mind. On the other hand, several of the survivors were by no means strong men, most of them were natives of the warm climate of Carolina, and what was singular enough, the person among the whole who seemed to have suffered least was a negro.","PeriodicalId":92102,"journal":{"name":"Medical facts and observations","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1098/rstl.1792.0014","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"61734067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"XXI. Experiments and observations to investigate the composition of James's Powder","authors":"George Pearson","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1791.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1791.0024","url":null,"abstract":"The medicine upon which many physicians principally depend in the cure of continued fevers is James's Powder; but, although it has been very extensively used above thirty years, the public have not, I believe, been informed of the particular nature of this substance.","PeriodicalId":92102,"journal":{"name":"Medical facts and observations","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1098/rstl.1791.0024","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"61733691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"XXII. Experiments and observations on the matter of cancer and on the aërial fluids extricated from animal substances by distillation and putrefaction; together with some remarks on sulphureous hepatic air","authors":"Adair Crawford","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1790.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1790.0026","url":null,"abstract":"There are several varieties in the colour and consistence of the matter discharged by cancerous ulcers.","PeriodicalId":92102,"journal":{"name":"Medical facts and observations","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1098/rstl.1790.0026","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"61734048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"XIII. Description of an extraordinary production of human generation, with observations","authors":"John Clarke","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1793.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1793.0014","url":null,"abstract":"In the course of the last year, a woman was admitted into the General Lying-in Hospital, in Store Street, Tottenham-court Road, who, after a natural labor, was delivered of a healthy child. The birth of this child was succeeded, however, by a repetition of uterine contractions, by which another substance was expelled, which is the subject of this paper.","PeriodicalId":92102,"journal":{"name":"Medical facts and observations","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1098/rstl.1793.0014","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"61734375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"VI. Observations on certain horny excrescences of the human body","authors":"E. Home","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1791.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1791.0008","url":null,"abstract":"The history of diseases belongs not properly to the province of the naturalist or philosopher; it is intimately connected with the inquiries of the physician and anatomist; but when disease becomes a cause of the formation of parts similar to others existing in nature, but rendered uncommon by novelty of situation, or produced in animals to which they are not naturally appropriated, it may be considered as having instituted a monstrous variety, highly deserving of attention from the naturalist.","PeriodicalId":92102,"journal":{"name":"Medical facts and observations","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1098/rstl.1791.0008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"61734134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"VI. Experiments on the nerves, particularly on their reproduction; and on the spinal marrow of living animals","authors":"William Cumberland Cruikshank","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1795.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1795.0008","url":null,"abstract":"The nerves on which these experiments were made are, the par vagum, and intercostal. The par vagum arise from the basis of the brain, pass through the basis of the skull, along with the internal, jugular veins. They are distributed to the tongue, oesophagus, larynx, heart, and lungs; and, running on each side of the oesophagus, may be said to terminate in the stomach, liver, and semilunar ganglion of the intercostals, below the diaphragm; from whence they are again distributed to the viscera of the abdomen. The intercostals also arise from the basis of the brain, pass through the basis of the skull, along with the carotid arteries. They at first run by the fore part of the vertebrae of the neck, still adhering to the coats of these arteries; but having reached the chest, they leave these arteries, and run before the heads of the ribs, where, sending off branches which pass between the ribs, they have thence been named intercostals. Several of these branches uniting, form a trunk on each side, which, running forwards towards the middle of the spine, perforates the diaphragm, and then terminates in the semilunar ganglion of the intercostals. These trunks are distinguished by the name of the anterior intercostals.","PeriodicalId":92102,"journal":{"name":"Medical facts and observations","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1098/rstl.1795.0008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"61734499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"XI. Of the Influence of cold upon the health of the inhabitants of London","authors":"William Heberden","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1796.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1796.0013","url":null,"abstract":"The extraordinary mildness of last January, compared with the unusual severity of the January preceding, affords a peculiarly favourable opportunity of observing the effect of each of these seasons contrasted with each other. For of these two successive winters, one has been the coldest, and the other the warmest, of which any regular account has ever been kept in this country. Nor is this by any means an idle speculation, or matter of mere curiosity; for one of the first steps towards preserving the health of our fellow-creatures, is to point out the sources from which diseases are to be apprehended. And what may make the present inquiry more particularly useful, is that the result, as I hope clearly to make appear by the following statements, is entirely contrary to the prejudices usually entertained upon this subject. During last January, nothing was more common than to hear expressions of the unseasonableness of the weather; and fears lest the want of the usual degree of cold, should be productive of putrid diseases, and I know not what other causes of mortality. On the other hand, “a bracing cold,\" and \"a clear frost,\" are familiar in the mouth of every Englishman; and what he is taught to wish for, as among the greatest promoters of health and vigour.","PeriodicalId":92102,"journal":{"name":"Medical facts and observations","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1098/rstl.1796.0013","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"61734270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"VII. An experimental inquiry concerning the reproduction of nerves","authors":"John Haighton","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1795.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1795.0009","url":null,"abstract":"An animate machine differs from an inanimate one in nothing more conspicuously, than in its power of repairing its injuries, and of curing its diseases. It is wisely contrived by nature that, in many instances, the cause producing the injury lays the foundation for the cure; for as injuries, particularly those occasioned by cutting instruments, are necessarily attended with an effusion of blood, from the division of blood-vessels, this fluid, either immediately or remotely, fills up the breach. Hence every part possessed of vascularity, and consequently of blood, carries with it the principle by which it repairs its injuries; and the facility with which this process is conducted, generally bears some proportion to the freedom of the circulation in each individual part.","PeriodicalId":92102,"journal":{"name":"Medical facts and observations","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1098/rstl.1795.0009","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"61734564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"XXII. An account of some chemical experiments on tabasheer","authors":"James Smithson","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1791.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1791.0025","url":null,"abstract":"The Tabasheer employed in these experiments was that which Dr. Russell laid before the Society, as specimens of this substance, the evening his Paper upon the subject was read.","PeriodicalId":92102,"journal":{"name":"Medical facts and observations","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1098/rstl.1791.0025","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"61733748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}