The Medical Profession and the Commonwealth

8/11/2016

of their profession, and those who may ignorantly and wickedly administer Medicine, whereby the health and lives … to public health and public morality, is willing to tolerate this state of affairs indefinitely? Is not her … of sifting which shall afford to the people an assurance that the State is unwilling to trust the lives …

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The Medical Profession and the Commonwealth (pdf)

8/11/2016

, whereby the health and lives of many valuable individuals may be endangered, or per- haps lost …, is willing to tolerate this state of affairs indefinitely ? Is not her indifference reprehensible ? And have … the lives and health of her inhabitants to charlatans and adven- turers. We ought to insist, and insist …

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The Physician's Extra-Professional Duties (pdf)

8/11/2016

must reform the school-committee ; and thiB means that ho himself must be willing to serve … art, so far as we can, to all who are willing to learn it.We hear nowadays of political .campaigns … their lives to this work. They take the place of the physician's private students, who formerly in return …

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The Relation of Pathology to Medicine (pdf)

8/11/2016

the trustees of hospitals are willing to erect andmaintain, at a considerable expense, buildings in which … acting upou it, it is called living matter ; and these attributesaud reactions common to it iu all forms … are sufficient to distinguish living matter from all other forms of matter.1 Annual Discourse before …

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

8/11/2016

, the imagination and eveu of the will, over the nutrition of our bodies, has all the charm of magic … of saving millions of human lives. Exceptiug Jenner's own suggestion that this discov- ery might prove … the lives of persons iu this condition by venesection." And under "Chronic Valvular Disease," "This …

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The Medical Problems of the Day

8/10/2016

that ever lived, by introducing a more correct knowledge of the human body, as well as of the character … individual cases, so much as where the health and lives of multitudes are involved. Here is a momentous work …. They embrace, it will be seen, many of the living questions of the day — problems yet to be solved. First …

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

8/10/2016

and guardians may be con ceded the' right to determine what they are willing to risk for their wards … and uterine ill health of women than they are willing to acknowledge, or than their critics have seen …, strength or temper for a fourth or fifth of the active period of their lives, is not accompanied …

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The Interests of the Public and the Medical Profession

8/10/2016

the right to determine what they are willing to risk for their wards, it is no less true … ill health of women than they are willing to acknowledge, or than their critics have seen fit … for a fourth or fifth of the active period of their lives, is not accompanied by a state of nervous erethism …

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Medical Societies: Their Organization and the Nature of Their Work

8/10/2016

of quasi-respectability, and “because it will, perhaps, give a somewhat longer lease of life to systems of practice … these circumstances we ought to be able to accomplish a great deal of good for the community in which we live. Let us … other diseases, it will, whether treated in insane asylums or not, be each year to a greater extent …

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State and Preventive Medicine in Massachusetts (pdf)

8/10/2016

that the leaders of this opposi tion are quite willing apparently to sacrifice their whole system of State … high character. While Massachusetts has not yet been willing to adopt any decided regulations … physical power greatly aug mented ;—that in every year, within this Commonwealth, thousands of lives …

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