One Hundred and Fifty Years — From Tallow-Dip to Television (PDF)

11/14/2016

settlements whose establishment we have so recently been celebrating. When a medical student here in the '90's … 8 to 10, 1931. \s=d\Cushing-\p=m-\Moseley Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School … of the medical officers from Massa- chusetts, his friends and comrades, who were either killed in action or died …

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New England, Neurosurgery and the Neurosurgeon

11/14/2016

was the most frequently employed form of medication. What if they did "breathe a vein" for almost any ailment … Boylston, about 1720, read or heard of direct inoculation with smallpox material. He must have been … no longer played the dual role of medical adviser and minister to the soul. We find that medical thought …

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Medicine's Responsibility in the Propagation of Poor Protoplasm

11/14/2016

we are today. Cynics, idealists, and sentimentalists have tried to define the role of the medical …, likewise, these advances, as well as the contributions of the physiologist, have done much to augment … in which medical accomplishment is being outstripped by some malevolent force. It is true that the male …

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The Objectives of Medical Progress

11/14/2016

, with the passing of the years and the advance of medical science, are valuable chiefly from an historical point … in medical science. This does not necessarily imply an evolutionary advance in human brain power. The time …The Objectives of Medical Progress …

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Some Remarks on Therapy for Anemia

11/14/2016

naively, on a more general theme. *** The remarkable advances in the treatment of anemia of the past … States Pharmacopoeia or the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry of the American Medical Association. Active … of sufficient amounts of active material by a single route at regular intervals. The advances of the last …

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New England, Neurosurgery and the Neurosurgeon (PDF)

11/14/2016

of medication. What if they did "breathe a vein" for almost any ailment, and what if the barber-surgeon did use … Boylston, about 1720, read or heard of direct inoculation with smallpox material. He must have been …, but he no longer played the dual role of med- ical adviser and minister to the soul. We find that medical …

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Safe Management of Fractures

11/14/2016

in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Not many years afterward, Abbott modified Putti's apparatus … that bears his name. The medical literature reveals that intramedullary fixation of the clavicle had been … appeared in abundance. Among the technical exhibits at medical meetings, the tools are displayed …

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

11/14/2016

years ago to be exact), which by many is regarded as one of the classics of American medical literature … graven in translated form on one. of the buildings of the Harvard Medical School, ' ' life is short … with the ap- parent too great readiness of the medical pro- fession to assume without any intelligent skep- …

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The Objectives of Medical Progress (PDF)

11/14/2016

and the advance of medical science, are valuable chiefly from an historical point of view; others, concerned … the more necessary. Medical practice has not advanced along a single broad highway. There are many …The Objectives of Medical Progress (PDF) …

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

11/11/2016

its battle against mortality and morbidity, is, in addition, directing its attention towards … of physical examination, and particularly of repeated physical examinations, that directions for changes … recognition. In favor of this view, there was considerable medical authority. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes …

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