The Country Doctor — His Place in the Profession

8/10/2016

professional life. It may not be inappropriate, therefore, to wander a little from the ordinary track … of philosophic or scientific discussion, and to offer you a few random thoughts on the life and habits of the so … a long life it may be, and rarely “known beyond their own country ride—sturdy, warm hearted, useful class …

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The Prevention of the Spread of Typhoid Fever

8/10/2016

to the end of life a continued and increasing interest in the great subject which had so signally attracted …, and where, as a young practitioner, he was just beginning his professional life. North Tawton was a country …

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Nature Guides Best, When Guided (pdf)

8/10/2016

characteristics of animal and mental life. 84 NATURE GUIDES BEST, WHEN GUIDED. Whether we regard … exalted wit Saw it himself, and showed us it. But life did never to one man allow Time … we render assistance with emetics? If ex cessive emesis endanger the patient's life, the plain …

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State and Preventive Medicine in Massachusetts

8/10/2016

instructive. A table of deaths of infants before the end of the first year of life shows that the mortality … life should be placed in the hands of those having a definitely ascertained knowledge of the human body … of disease should know enough to be able to discriminate between the diseases which begin and end …

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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

8/10/2016

habits of life obtaining in those districts are all-important factors conducing to this end. But when … instruments; but however desirable it may be to have a pair of forceps perfectly adapted to their ends, we … and saving the life of the child. Should it fail, the dread alternative is still practicable. In no disease …

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A Review of Medicine – Its Work and Its Worth (pdf)

8/10/2016

OF THE MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOCIETY: As American citizens who have survived the first century of national life … value, and subordinates it only to the question pertaining to spiritual life. Nay, there has never …, are the great life motors, and have established relations with every fibre and tissue of the human …

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Infantile Mortality: Its Causes and Prevention (pdf)

8/10/2016

relation, if any, these attacks bear to the one that finally ends the life of the patient, is a question … the year 44,217 children. In the same period 7190 died during the first year of life; 2281 the second year … of life. The deaths of the first year are 16.26 per cent, of the births and 20.04 per cent, of the deaths …

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Hints in Ethics and Hygiene

8/10/2016

in efforts to relieve human suffering, to save and prolong life, and to prevent disease, it seems hardly … the duration of life deserve our warmest thanks. These endeavors are sometimes thwarted by the efforts …. With these ends in view, the General Statutes of Massachusetts require that before a body can be buried in any …

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Nature Guides Best, When Guided

8/10/2016

combined with the distinctive characteristics of animal and mental life. Whether we regard vital action …. But life did never to one man allow Time to discover worlds and conquer too; Nor can so short a line …? If excessive emesis endanger the patient's life, the plain indications of nature invite us to address our …

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Many Things Remain to Be Done (pdf)

8/10/2016

, and, evading study, they settle down into a routine life, self-sufl‘lcient, self-satisfied … answered its own expectations and ends, and how it has performed its duty to itself, and the profes … strata of air, changing too often the breath of life to the breath of death. Where the germ springs …

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