St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal Volume 5 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: without Him was not anything made that was made." As all things are determined and sustained by the self-determining, the self-sustaining, .and self-mediating spirit, its centre is everywhere and its circumference nowhere. " Not a sparrow falls to the earth but by His bidding, and every hair of your head is numbered." Do the elements of matter unite to form the eye for a future use do the rootlets of the plant pierce the soil towards its food, and the leaves turn to the light do the bees gather honey in summer for the coming winter, and are the inspirations, the instincts, the faiths of man alone deceptive and illusive? These make no exception, and it is pleasant to see that science, how far soever it may have wandered in its period of analyses and abstractions, must inevitably return in its comprehension, to the faiths of our fathers. This is not a simple return to these faiths, but it is their new birth and their baptism with the Spirit. ON THE MODERN TREATMENT OF LACRYMAL OBSTRUCTIONS BY DILATATION OF THE NATURAL PASSAGES. By John Green, M.D., of St. Louis, Mo. The practice of laying open the lacrymal sac through the external integuments, in cases of acute or chronic dacryocystitis, with obstruction of the nasal duct, has in our day given place to improved methods, based upon the principle so long applied to stricture of the urethra, of dilatation through the natural passages. In the present state of knowledge it may be safely laid down as a principle, that in verv few cases, either of stricture of the nasal duct or of inflammation of the lacrymal sac, is it. necessary or advisable to open the sac in the old method by a puncture through the skin. If we have to deal with an acute abscess of the lacrymal sac, it is quite possible, in manycases, to give vent to th...