The Massachusetts Medical Society and the Organization of Public-Health Services — Retrospect and Prospect

3/28/2017

hospitals. It may be that the term "medical care" is too general for the direct communication of what I …. An active educational campaign, aimed at the establishment of full-time, medically directed local health …The Massachusetts Medical Society and the Organization of Public-Health Services — Retrospect …

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Docendo Discimus

3/28/2017

." This was an epoch-making communication and was given largely in protest against the then-prevalent excessive medication … of the dead hand of medical tradition." It would be futile to attempt to select the most meritorious … ever-recurring discussions of medical education, the progress of medicine, and a few nostalgic historical papers …

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Genes, the Heart and Destiny

3/28/2017

or lesser degree candidates for any particular disease, to direct, as of course we should, our special … and subjected to preventive measures directed at the host. After a brief review of heredity itself I shall … accompanied by septal defects and transposition of the great vessels. Dr. Ongley, of the Children's Medical …

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Reflections on the Challenge to the Medical Profession in India

3/28/2017

medical education has always been eminently practical and direct. It seems to me that India has selected …Reflections on the Challenge to the Medical Profession in India … of the educated classes in India. Medical instruction is conducted in English. However, India is multilingual …

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The Role of Diagnostic Roentgenology in Medicine

3/28/2017

that some of the most important applications of the rays as a practical medical tool originated in Boston … a paper entitled "On a New Kind of Ray" to the Physical Medical Society of Würzburg on December 28 … immediately began to work with the rays. The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal of February 13, 1896, carried …

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Gastric Surgery

3/28/2017

by the Gastroenterological Department of the clinic by medical measures. Since most of the symptoms associated with hiatus … are directed largely toward the attainment of more normal digestive function and the avoidance of gastric … significantly to the benefits that can be obtained by medical management alone. In hiatus hernias with large …

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The Education of the Public in Medical Matters (PDF)

3/27/2017

in the advance of,medical science and in the art of healing has been so great and so rapid that one is tempted … people in general show so little ap- preciation of the advances made in medicine? Why has the medical … as the medical profession, yet the profession as a body has taken no effective steps in this direction …

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The Education of the Public in Medical Matters

3/27/2017

in the advance of medical science and in the art of healing has been so great and so rapid that one is tempted …? Why has the medical profession so little influence in directing affairs which affect the public … the state in directing this important work. The testimonial from the medical profession to Dr. Walcott, when …

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Some of the Mutual Relations between the Physician and the Commonwealth (PDF)

3/27/2017

Boston flDebícal anb Surgical Journal TABLE OF CONTENTS June 2, 1921 THE MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL … ' EDITORIALSEDITORIALS Maternity Legislation. 574 American Medical Association Clinics. 578 MISCELLANYMISCELLANY … A Report to the Medical Profession by the Medical Ad- visory Committee of the Massachusetts Industrial …

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Some of the Mutual Relations between the Physician and the Commonwealth

3/27/2017

to the community, "Our interests are to be advanced, no matter at what cost of suffering and danger to you … exercise his or her prerogative of voting by using the ballot for the advancement of sane and sensible … professions. Today we are considering the medical profession. The will of the people has been expressed in law …

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