Medical Societies: Their Organization and the Nature of Their Work

8/10/2016

of discontent in a section of medical activity at the western end of the State, forgetting that Boston is nearly … of Life on Menstruation in Different Countries;” “The Accidents which cause Death after Surgical … of the association are no longer of the same stamp as those who attended the meetings in the early years of its life …

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The Prevention of the Spread of Typhoid Fever (pdf)

8/10/2016

of practice and usefulness and to great eminence in the profession, but always maintained to the end of life … beginning his professional life. North Tawton was a country town of only eleven or twelve hundred …

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Undercurrents of Modern Medicine

8/10/2016

the medium of conveyance for this terrible affliction, ending in such unnecessary loss of life. Subsequent … with modern civilized life, executive skill, and business habits, not inferior to those exacted by other … sects are recognized, even to gain a worthy end. If the Commonwealth is to be asked to take a hand …

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State and Preventive Medicine in Massachusetts (pdf)

8/10/2016

before the end of the first year of life shows that the mortality of those fed on cow's and goat's … interests of the community or not that the right to practise upon human life should be placed … should know enough to be able to discriminate between the diseases which begin and end …

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Undercurrents of Modern Medicine (pdf)

8/10/2016

afflic- tion, ending in such unnecessary loss of life. Subse- quent developments proved the suspicion … life, executive skill, and business habits, not in- ferior to those exacted by other technical … end. If the Commonwealth is to be asked to take a hand in medical affairs, the appeal should …

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Infantile Mortality: Its Causes and Prevention

8/10/2016

,217 children. In the same period 7190 died during the first year of life; 2281 the second year; third … there is decreasing mortality, and that the age of infancy is the most perilous period of life. The deaths … is a disease that occurs usually in the first year of life, among infants artificially nourished …

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A Review of Medicine – Its Work and Its Worth

8/10/2016

century of national life, and participated in its review, to regret its failures and to recognize its …, and subordinates it only to the question pertaining to spiritual life. Nay, there has never been a nation … that the head, the heart, the lungs, and the digestive organs, are the great life motors, and have established …

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Hints in Ethics and Hygiene (pdf)

8/10/2016

and prolong life, and to prevent disease, it seems hardly necessary to allude to the import ance … the spread of disease and shorten the duration of life deserve our warmest thanks. These endeavors … of diseases. With these ends in view, the General Statutes of Massachusetts require that before a body …

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The Position of the Massachusetts Medical Society — Its Relations to Medical Progress, to the Community in Which We Practise, and to Its Fellows (pdf)

8/10/2016

it may be to have a pair of forceps perfectly adapted to their ends, we should not be allowed to lose … it is demonstrable that it often will succeed in safely delivering the mother and saving the life of the child … good ground. The more robust frames, the purer air, the simpler habits of life obtaining in those …

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Medical Societies: Their Organization and the Nature of Their Work (pdf)

8/10/2016

clergymen, 1 Extracts from the Life and Correspondence ofRev. William Smith, D. D. By Horace Weymiss … activity at the western end of the State, forgetting that Boston is 1 The question having arisen …." Other papers read at this meeting were, " On the Influences of Climate, Race, and Condition of Life …

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