Safe Management of Fractures

11/14/2016

? Surely it should never be said, paraphrasing Bick, that the only excuse for surgery is the surgeon's … Robert Jones said that of many thousands of fractures of both forearm bones, he could remember not more … patient to patient, from bone to bone and in different segments of the same bone. He also said …

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The Story of Smallpox in Massachusetts (PDF)

11/14/2016

1221. owed their preservation. Seven years earlier the Narragansetts alone were said to be able … and as someone said of him "always positive and sometimes accurate", lent, prob- ably early in 1721, to one whom … interviewed the slave Onesi- mus, who had been inoculated in Africa where he said it was done to everybody …

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The Trend of Medicine In The Twentieth Century (PDF)

11/14/2016

he said "the tide has turned, we have one boy in the entering class who still has his tonsils …

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The Interdependence of Tropical Medicine and General Medicine (PDF)

11/14/2016

. It is said, and probably with essential truth, that every tie in this railway represents a corpse. These mis- … large and the end is not yet. What has been said of malaria is true in lesser degree of dysentery …, which is transmitted by a species of tick, is said to be spreading similarly into new regions …

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

11/14/2016

to this disease. What I have said of nephritis also applies to the various vascular lesions and their results …

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The Objectives of Medical Progress (PDF)

11/14/2016

. John Ware's discourses of nearly one hundred years ago. Dr. Reynolds said, "It would … in the Discourse of 1828. He said, "Increased luxury, diminished industry and the undue use of intoxicating liquors … down to his descendants of to-day. He said, "Integrity is the great principle that should …

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The Physical Examination of Apparently Healthy Individuals: Its Importance, Limitations and Opportunities

11/11/2016

fortunately afflicted. Sir William Osler, then of Baltimore, had somewhat the same thought when he said in his …

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The Relations of the Massachusetts Medical Society to the Public

11/11/2016

and Fellows of said Society, or other such of their Officers or Fellows as they shall appoint, shall have full … the said candidates shall be found skilled in their profession, and fitted for the practice of it … of the said Society. At the same time that Dr. Holyoke issued the call for the first meeting Dr. John Warren …

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The Physician as Custodian of the Health of the People: But Who Shall Guard the Custodian Himself?

11/11/2016

to the medical schools, or are deterred from entering on the course. The supply of doctors is said … Progress of Medical Science in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts," when he said: "Though some individuals … where the-old doctor would have failed. How can it be said that he is anything but a blessing! But we …

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The Physician as Custodian of the Health of the People: But Who Shall Guard the Custodian Himself? (PDF)

11/11/2016

, or are deterred from entering on the course. The supply of doctors is said not to be equal to the demand … in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts," when he said: "Though some individuals have been cele- brated in particular … saved a life where the-old doctor would have failed. How can it be said that he is anything …

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