"Rectus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... until July, 1874, when he commenced to suffer from headache and constipation. On the 23d of August following, while I was absent from the city, he presented himself to the gentleman who attended to my practice during my absence, with paralysis of the external rectus muscle of the left eye. He also consulted a specialist, who pronounced the paralysis rheumatic. When I returned from the country he presented himself for treatment. I commenced a series of daily electric applications to the affected muscle, which failed to respond to the faradic current, but ...
— The Electric Bath • George M. Schweig
... catalogue is only an evidence that one may teach long and see little that has not been noted by those who have gone before him. Of course I do not think it necessary to include rare, but already described anomalies, such as the episternal bones, the rectus sternalis, and other interesting exceptional formations I have encountered, which have shown a curious tendency to present themselves several times in the same season, perhaps because the first specimen found calls our attention to any we may ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist) |
