Realism in Medicine

8/11/2016

we may differ with Wallace in some of his estimates, we must agree, I think, that this comparison … of gifts for which the human race may well feel grateful to the medical men of the nineteenth century … with an attempt at such a recital. But I think it may be well worth our while to take note of the discoveries …

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James Thacher, M.D., of Plymouth, Mass.

8/11/2016

science in this country to encourage the work; and it may be the means of exciting a more general … experiments upon animals in some suitable institution, and concluding, says: “You may smile at my project …; but however chimerical and visionary it may appear, I would rejoice to be the Jenner of the proposed …

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The Relation of Pathology to Medicine (pdf)

8/11/2016

Anatomy in the Harvard Univer- sity Medical School. We may safely say that in the past fifty years …, its problems and its relation to the medical student. Pathology may be defined in a broad sense … be carried on ; but there may not he sufficient force conveyed to the organism to enable it to perform …

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The Advancement of Medicine by Research (pdf)

8/11/2016

that the attempt will be repeated during the next session of the Legislature, may serve as my excuse for asking you … recently remarked, " Conscience without common-sense may lead to folly, which íb but the handmaiden … to contradict from his own knowl- edge the heart-rending stories which are poured into his ears, he may …

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Realism in Medicine (pdf)

8/11/2016

but fifteen discoveries of similar magnitude in all past time. However we may differ with Wallace … have an array of gifts for which the human race may well feel grateful to the medical men … at such a recital. But I think it may be well worth our while to take note of the discoveries which mark …

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An Epoch in Medicine in an Age of Delusion (pdf)

8/11/2016

classes, the mate- rial and the spiritual, matter and mind ; and medical science may be typified aB a huge …, and that diseases are not cured by drugs. This may not be absolutely true, but it points to a grave defect in our … that other and newer remedies may have a more enduring success ? So that we are led to ask, Why do we ever …

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The Medical Problems of the Day

8/10/2016

, and the favorable opportunity it affords to say something which may advance the interests of a noble profession ….” Though we may be unable to follow in the footsteps of these illustrious expounders of nature’s laws, we … may, in some slight degree, catch their spirit and imitate their example in our earnest researches …

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The Interests of the Public and the Medical Profession (pdf)

8/10/2016

‘ect at the commencement of each Annual Discourse which may hereafter be published.” I 1 November … to them incidentally, premising the assertion that We may honestly claim that all these controversies …, that rejecting the chaff it may give its sanction only to that which practical ex perience proves …

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The Interests of the Public and the Medical Profession

8/10/2016

Centennial. I can merely allude to them incidentally, premising the assertion that we may honestly claim …, is carefully and patiently to analyze them all, that rejecting the chaff it may give its sanction only … investigation of disease, every experiment with drugs, every physiological problem which may properly be pursued …

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Medical Societies: Their Organization and the Nature of Their Work

8/10/2016

Annual Oration 1881 By J. Collins Warren, M.D. “This may … of such subordinate societies be holden to report to the Councilors of the general society all such cases as may … and Duties of Medical Men in Relation to the Government and the Reforms which may reasonably be expected …

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