Search Out the Secrets of Nature (pdf)

8/8/2016

the steam-engine. Nature has arranged it so that certain dead elements shall be converted into living tissue … ; but, while no art is capable of constructing a living organism, it can supply the elements … relating to living organisms, are far less under stood ; and these it is the special province of medi …

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Morbid Anatomy

8/8/2016

upon the living body; and, though the idea to which I refer seems at first sight rather startling …. The old observers often drew the most perfect picture of disease as manifested in the living body … the living body; and, as the prognosis above given may seem to have been altogether too favorable, I would …

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The Duties, Trials, and Pleasures of the Medical Profession (pdf)

8/8/2016

, and to the commu 21 180 DUTIES, TRIALS, AND PLEASURES OF nity in which we live and serve. I feel … science. And it is the province of our profession to live them down in the future, as it has done … he has not a mere mechanical structure to repair, but a living man, bruised and broken …

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The Reality and Certainty of Medicine

8/8/2016

of the community in which they lived, and that inward peace which belongs to an honest man and good physician … he must one day give an account of the lives of those committed to his care. Naturally averse … and their lives to its guidance. Vessels were actually sailed by it, and accomplished their voyages safely …

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The Duties, Trials, and Pleasures of the Medical Profession

8/8/2016

we live and serve. I feel thus honored, gentlemen, in addressing you to-day. We have assembled here …. And it is the province of our profession to live them down in the future, as it has done in the past. But there are yet … arrives, finds he has not a mere mechanical structure to repair, but a living man, bruised and broken …

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The Principles and Objects of the Massachusetts Medical Society

8/8/2016

administration of medicine” which should endanger the lives of the people, — are the principles of this Society … can be expelled from the Society, if he does not live up to his professions and promises … disease, and prolong their lives.” The protection of the public health, by the exposure of quackery in all …

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Disease; — A Part of the Plan of Creation

8/8/2016

of numerous classes of organized beings, long ages before the appearance of the human race. Animals then lived … whole tribes, then as now, were so constituted that they could live only by the destruction of others … lived long enough afterward to allow the injuries to be repaired, as far as is ever possible after great …

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Disease; — A Part of the Plan of Creation (pdf)

8/8/2016

. Animals then lived, flourished, and passed away. Individuals, then as now, had a limited existence …, which death terminated. Some whole tribes, then as now, were so constituted that they could live … of otber animals, where the individual must have have lived long enough afterward to allow …

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Currents and Counter-Currents in Medical Science

8/8/2016

in the villages or towns that lie among the hills or along the inland streams. Only those who have lived … whom he labors, how they value him while living, how they cherish his memory when dead …; their watchful eyes are closed to all the sorrows they lived to soothe. Not one of these was famous in the great …

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The Reality and Certainty of Medicine (pdf)

8/8/2016

, at the age of fourscore, were enjoy ing the confidence and respect of the community in which they lived … to it in the spirit of a man who feels he must one day give an account of the lives of those committed to his … and their lives to its guidance. Vessels were actually sailed by it, and accomplished their voyages safely …

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