The Physician's Extra-Professional Duties (pdf)

8/11/2016

growtli these different duties are very plain. Thus, in colonial life, where the common welfare depends … inspiration in our life work, that we should consider these extra-professional duties. Let ub at least look … life those who can give help and would willingly give it, do not actually see the needs. The physician …

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Realism in Medicine

8/11/2016

and the conditions of life upon it have been more altered by man in the past century then in all time that had gone … of medical contributions of the first rank ends; four in the present, two in all past centuries …. And in this labor I have striven so hard to attain my end, that the ancients have nought wherein to excel us, save …

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James Thacher, M.D., of Plymouth, Mass.

8/11/2016

the cares and toils of life would seem to be imperatively demanded. His usefulness continued even to the end … the end of the first quarter of the eighteenth century, medicine in this country can hardly be said … labored with his father in husbandry during early life. He commenced the study of medicine under his …

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The Relation of Pathology to Medicine (pdf)

8/11/2016

that carbolic acid would arrest the progress of fermentation and destroy the lower forms of life would bo …, as that branch of biology which has to do with the study of life under abnormal conditions. It is impossible … to define life. When matter has certain attributes, when it reacts in coitaiu ways to external influences …

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The Advancement of Medicine by Research (pdf)

8/11/2016

the phenomena of life which form tho subject-matter of physiology are either physical or chemical … of life only on the condition that the same experimental method sup- plies the stepping-stones for his …, and condemn the saving of a human life by the sacrifice of that of a dog. That this is not an exaggerated …

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Realism in Medicine (pdf)

8/11/2016

, and must recognize that, measured by such tests as we can apply, the world and the conditions of life … tion. Here the list of* medical contributions of the first rank ends; four in the present, two … striven so hard to attain my end, that the ancients have nought wherein to excel us, save the discovery …

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

8/11/2016

appalling seems the mystery of life and death, bo strange aud inexplicable the phenomena of health 1 … a more exalted position than the others as having do- minion over life and death. Alas ! not even …, that the noblest, the most beneficent, mission of medicine to mankind is in the saving of human life. No one who …

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The Medical Problems of the Day

8/10/2016

have a far wider range, in their application to the laws of life and health as developed … show the vast importance of having competent and efficient Boards of Health. Human life and public … to the laws of life and health. If the more intelligent and influential members of society obtain …

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

8/10/2016

from individual constitution and habits of life, constitutes as yet only an art, in which … as the preser vation of life and health, is to leave the working out of these problems to those specially … AND THE MEDICAL PROFESSION. ' 9 sooner or later must come to all as the prelude to the end, burdens which …

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The Interests of the Public and the Medical Profession

8/10/2016

emergencies arising from individual constitution and habits of life, constitutes as yet only an art, in which … course, in matters involving such vital issues as the preservation of life and health, is to leave … to the end, burdens which can only be mitigated never cured, and that in all this work drugs play …

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