Investigations Upon the Subject of Vaccination

8/24/2016

said, that “he who does not profit by the experience of the past, must always remain in his infancy …

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Massachusetts Medical Society President Urges Enrollment in MassPAT, State’s New Prescription Monitoring Program

8/17/2016

with more than 25,000 members, said “Physicians have been urging improvements to the monitoring program ….    Citing the experiences in New York and Tennessee, Dr. Gessner said that “Prescription monitoring programs …

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The Advancement of Medicine by Research

8/11/2016

they declared to be of the greatest importance for medical science, and in general it may be said … be said of the surgeon who, however tender-hearted he may be, never in operating allows his mind to wander …, I trust, from what has been said that a standard so high as to be practically inapplicable …

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The Misuse of Drugs in Modern Practice (pdf)

8/11/2016

which have been gained from other sources than drugs. It is often said that we do not give as much …, 1887, said : ' Laville's well-known remedy acts marvellously well in gout, in witness of which I … as with the disease. In a recent discussion in the New York Academy of Medicine, Dr. E. H. Janeway said " he had …

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The Misuse of Drugs in Modern Practice

8/11/2016

than drugs. It is often said that we do not give as much medicine as our fathers did. If this is true … 15, 1887, said: ‘Laville's well known remedy acts marvellously well in Gout, in witness of which I … thing may be said of yellow fever. If we have made any progress in our treatment of small-pox, it has …

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James Thacher, M_D_, of Plymouth, Mass_ (pdf)

8/11/2016

quarter »1 tin:eigliteentiHÄ'/Ury, medicine in this country can hardlybo said to hare existed ^s …

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An Epoch in Medicine in an Age of Delusion

8/11/2016

students, it is said, at St. George's Hospital in the City of London more than a century ago. His sane … of quack medicines. It has been wittily said that to bring forward a hundred cases successful under the use … of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century. This may be said to have begun with the discovery …

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The Relation of Pathology to Medicine

8/11/2016

there remain problems enough for investigation. The study of pathological anatomy may be said to have passed … Rokitansky, who may be said to have occupied the same position in pathology that Linneus did in botany. Even …, and his work is the foundation-stone on which German medicine has been erected. Virchow may be said …

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The Physician's Extra-Professional Duties

8/11/2016

schools of practice are said to be represented, and where the rules and regulations for their guidance …

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The Medical Profession and the Commonwealth

8/11/2016

by the authority aforesaid, That the president and fellows of said society, or other such of their officers … hyperesthesia which is said to apply to the profession in connection with the subject of medical etiquette …, and that the cases are few in number in which it can be said that unjust and unfounded verdicts have been returned …

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