The Story of Smallpox in Massachusetts

11/14/2016

escaped with my life. It may make a strange figure in New England especially when one or two have made … had moved the death of many persons and had brought distemper upon many others which in the end proved …, the press, civil authorities and the united profession against him, laughed at, jeered at, his life …

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The Objectives of Medical Progress

11/14/2016

of medical practice in England at the end of the seventeenth century is well illustrated by the amazing …? Opportunity for the development of sports and mutations might well occur in organisms of such short life cycle …, are the price of safety in operating. It is better to waste motion than blood or life. The avoidance …

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From Cow-Path to State Road

11/14/2016

War ended, Massachusetts continued to grow. Between 1880 and 1900 three new complications to life were … to depravity than anything else. "Our healthful days are at an end, And sicknesses come on From yeer to yeer …. An event was necessary to excite the people over the unnecessary loss of human life from preventable …

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The Passing of Surgical Yeomen (PDF)

11/14/2016

. With the wealth of understanding that is his from a life spent on the firing line, he knows that, despite … troubled or led astray. As science came into his life, rarely did it upset his long-tried empirical … of it a means and not an end. If his touch told him the broken leg was about the length of the other …

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The Passing of Surgical Yeomen

11/14/2016

the ills of the people. With the wealth of understanding that is his from a life spent on the firing line … life, rarely did it upset his long-tried empirical knowledge. At times it shifted his beliefs a mite … mind neatly stowed it away, and his wisdom made of it a means and not an end. If his touch told him …

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New England, Neurosurgery and the Neurosurgeon (PDF)

11/14/2016

that this was a new country and that life was cheap and the way of life was hard. They were pioneers and they cut out … and more radi- cal element, donned the blue and buff of the colonial forces. The doctor's life was a hard …" means much in American life. We can be proud that the mem- bers of our profession lived up …

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The Story of Smallpox in Massachusetts (PDF)

11/14/2016

the destruction the smallpox made in Boston 19 years before and how nar- rowly I escaped with my life. It may make … distemper upon many others which in the end proved deadly to them and that the natural tendency of infusing … profession against him, laughed at, jeered at, his life in danger, began now to be as greatly lauded as he …

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The Interdependence of Tropical Medicine and General Medicine (PDF)

11/14/2016

, humanitarian ends to serve, and seductive problems which pique their scientific curiosity. But the battle … not have occurred and the battles with disease in the tropics could have been won with little loss of life … large and the end is not yet. What has been said of malaria is true in lesser degree of dysentery …

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The Practitioner's Need of an Intelligent Skepticism (PDF)

11/14/2016

graven in translated form on one. of the buildings of the Harvard Medical School, ' ' life is short … enema, for the colon fills quickly from end to end with greatest ease ; there is a consider- able body … of death in a very large per cent, of adults, especially in those beyond the forty year period of life …

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The Objectives of Medical Progress (PDF)

11/14/2016

of the medical art of the mother country. The state of medical practice in England at the end … of such short life cycle. Kirtley Mather tells us to be sure that in the cliffs of the coast of Wales …. It is better to waste motion than blood or life. The avoidance of infection is cheap at the price of infinite …

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