The Blood in Surgery - A Historical and Critical Study

10/19/2016

knowledge of special diseases. In this way best, I believe, may one reach a proper conception … or a vein may suffice to draw away all of the life stream. His knowledge of the nature of the circulation … transferred to a dog may kill the latter. Two years later, Prévost and Dumas, after a series of experiments …

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The Present Position and Value of the Exploratory or Operative Diagnosis

10/19/2016

. That an experienced observer may make an occasional guess that seems little less than instinctive, we all admit … than in the abdomen that his diagnosis is so accurate that he may base upon it operations … upon skill and upon experience, many a curable disease may be allowed to undermine health or destroy …

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The Blood in Surgery - A Historical and Critical Study (pdf)

10/19/2016

believe, may one reach a proper conception of the attainments of our predecessors; of the place at which … of an artery or a vein may suffice to draw away all of the life stream. His knowledge of the nature … is hazardous; and that human blood transferred to a dog may kill the latter. Two years later, Prevost and Dumas …

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Dyspepsia and Indigestion Viewed from a Surgical Standpoint

10/19/2016

is so close and complete that a slight pathologic, disturbance in one organ can and may be manifested … of an appendicitis in pneumonia, or the pyloric spasm that follows irritation of the cecum and appendix may be cited …, syphilis, arteriosclerosis, fatigue and other general functional causes may produce a dyspepsia …

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Dyspepsia and Indigestion Viewed from a Surgical Standpoint (pdf)

10/19/2016

and may be manifested in an organ apparently quite dissociated. A similar interrelation be- tween … of the cecum and appendix may be cited as crude examples. It would be interesting to take up these many complex … hand, that dietetic errors, syphilis, arteriosclerosis, fatigue and other general functional causes may …

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Some Abuses in Surgical Practice

10/19/2016

there is due a certain succession of processes to be completed in a certain time—which time and processes may … vary with the constitution and condition of the patient, and may tend to death or recovery … the achievements of American surgery, is particularly strong. But although we may very properly treat with contempt …

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The Present Position and Value of the Exploratory or Operative Diagnosis (pdf)

10/19/2016

. That an experienced observer may make an occa- sional guess that seems little less than instinctive, we all admit … strongly than in the abdomen that his diagnosis is so ac- curate that he may base upon it operations …, in spite of all knowledge dependent upon skill and upon experience, many a curable disease may be allowed …

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The Sanctity of Medicine (pdf)

10/19/2016

and in disease. Medicine may be traced to two separate origins, Greek and Hindu. The date of its origin …, that there is a class of scientists more expert, to which may be referred all ques- tions of doubt, as well as the more … be labeled at all, or may receive several interpretations; that the state which looks grave to-day, as far …

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Some Perplexities in Modern Medicine

10/19/2016

this turn our thoughts to some subject whose consideration may illumine our path or encourage us if appalled … action, in order that a harmful result may be recognized as promptly as a beneficial one. Long continued … what may be accounted intolerant empiricism. The iniquitous practice of bleeding may upon occasions …

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The Burden of Feeble-Mindedness

10/19/2016

or disease, it is gone forever. It is never replaced by the multiplication of other similar cells, as may …" of the defective germ plasm may keep up the sequence. If both parents come from tainted families, the probability … individuals with no family taint are not so likely to have defective children; indeed, the tendency may …

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